How to use Clipchamp, Microsoft’s sleeper-hit video editor
Microsoft’s new free video editor, Clipchamp, is incredible: simple, deep, and intuitive, with enough features to create a simple meme or a sophisticated commercial video. It’s one of the best creative tools Microsoft offers, and you’ve probably never even heard of it!
In September 2021, Microsoft acquired Clipchamp, a small video-editing application that competes (and still does) with Microsoft’s own built-in Video Editor app within Windows 10 and Windows 11. Clipchamp, though, is light-years ahead. Microsoft has said Clipchamp will eventually be added directly to Windows, but for now the Clipchamp app is available for free from the Microsoft Store.
It’s unfortunate that Microsoft launched Clipchamp alongside an outrageous pricing scheme that it has largely revoked since. Now Microsoft allows you to freely export as many videos as you like at 1080p resolution and only requires subscription pricing for extras: unlimited audio and video stock to spice up your videos, plus cloud storage of imported files. You don’t need them. Not only does Microsoft provide a good chunk of royalty-free audio and video tracks, but sites like Pexels (photos and video clips) and Pixabay (music and audio) advertise themselves as repositories of free content, available for private and commercial use.
If you end up using those extra features but don’t want to actually
