You’re able to add transitions in between your clips from the Joiner menu. It’s all remarkably basic and there’s not even a way to preview your assembled footage.

You can sort your footage by name or date, or reorder them as you please using the large Up and Down buttons. Joiner appears to be the closest you have to actually putting footage together: you can select files and Gilisoft will add them, one after the other.

This does mean however that you can make all the changes you need related to those menus, without having to save the file and reopen it each time you alter the clip in a different way. You access to that ‘enhanced’ interface when selecting other tools such as Rotate, Add/Remove Audio, PIP/Watermark, Video Enhancement, Subtitle/Text and Filter/Adjust Speed, so it’s a little odd that all these tools are advertised as different when they simply lead you to the same section of the interface. You can alter the font style and the text’s position on the screen though, so… there’s that, I guess… It’s an unnecessary step, especially after decades of desktop video editing tools which allow you to simply type within the app, it’s a mystery why Gilisoft still works that way.

You can’t simply add a subtitle for instance, you need to import the text from a file. However, you gain access to more features which you can use in on that same clip in one session: in addition to cutting, you can crop, add effects, a watermark, subtitles, and even music.īut these features feel both very complex and very limited.

Gilisoft video editor reviews