As a freelance videographer you can spend just as much time filming as you do editing. Which means knowing your camera and knowing your editing platform well comes with great value for how your end product turns out. Great footage and a bad edit makes for a lower tier product whereas decent footage but a great edit can really elevate your end product look clean and professional. These days there are so many different platforms to choose from that for beginners I can see how it is hard to choose, especially when you start talking about pricing, features, etc. So let's do a quick deep dive into a few editing platforms and talk about what you should be looking for when deciding on which one to learn and master. First let's start with a super basic editing platform, the free ones. You can genuinely go out and use whatever free software you want to edit videos with. Some have a lot of features but leave you with an annoying watermark that you can’t remove without purchase or some ha...