Shotcut has a look and feel of high-end video editors like Adobe’s Premiere and Apple’s Final Cut Pro. It’s way more powerful in feature compared to Microsoft’s free video editor. If we say Shotcut is an alternative to Microsoft’s Movie Maker, it is an understatement. It’s completely free, without ads or bundled adware. Shotcut is a relatively new open-source video editor that works across all three major desktop platforms, Windows, Mac and Linux.
Having said that, if your Windows isn’t running on Windows 10 or doesn’t have the latest update, your choice for a free video editor is limited but not restricted to only Microsoft freeware. If you have a new machine or reinstalled Windows from scratch, chances are there isn’t a free video editor that you can get from Microsoft, unless you have upgraded your Windows 10 to the latest this year’s Fall Creators update, in which, the Photos app gained more video editing functions that are similar to what you would find previously in Windows Movie Maker. Microsoft has deprecated Windows Movie Maker officially earlier this year.
