Blender AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Video Editors

The best Video Editor alternative to Blender is Lumiere3D, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Blender and five of them are Video Editors so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Video Editor alternatives to Blender are Apple Motion, Alight Motion, Solar and Piranha.

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  2. Apple Motion icon

    Apple Motion

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    Designed for video editors, Motion is a powerful motion graphics tool that makes it easy to create cinematic 2D and 3D titles, fluid transitions, and realistic effects in real time.

    27 Apple Motion alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
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    Motion is designed primarily for 2D and relatively simple 3D animation, whereas you can model and rig 3D characters in Blender.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Apple Motion is Paid and ProprietaryBlender is Free and Open Source
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    Alight Motion

     6 likes

    A video an animation creator app.

    21 Alight Motion alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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    Alight Motion is more of a 2d tweening animation app. It can make 2d images look 3d using effects, but nothing that's actually 3d.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Alight Motion is Freemium and ProprietaryBlender is Free and Open Source
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    Solar

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    Lightstream Solar is a new GPU-accelerated high-end compositor for VFX work.

    The software provides a node and tree-based workflow, and offers the range of tools one would expect in an app of this type, including layer management tools, colour correction and grading, and addition.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. Piranha icon

    Piranha

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    Piranha 8 is a high performance end to end editing and finishing solution for film and video professionals. Edit, composite, retouch, color grade and output using Piranha's lightning fast GPU architecture.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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