Exporting & Sharing Your Video Export turns your timeline into a finished file. FilmCraft uses its own H.264 and AAC encoders (no FFmpeg). Exporting a video Open Export mode. Choose Media File. Pick a destination and format (details below). Click Export. Background jobs let you keep editing while it renders. Formats you can export H.264 […]

Color Basics FilmCraft’s color tools work in the order a colorist works. All grading happens in linear light, 32-bit float, and the waveform and vectorscope scopes are computed from the graded frame. The Color workspace Switch to the Color workspace to see the Program monitor with live scopes beside it. The grading panel (top to […]

Adding Titles & Text FilmCraft has a real text engine with proper fonts, kerning, and ligatures — text stays sharp at any size or rotation. The text tools On the Program monitor you have Type, Shape, and Pen tools: Type — click to type, edit with a caret and selection. Shape — drag out rectangles […]

Trimming & Refining Your Edit Trimming is fine-tuning where one clip ends and the next begins — the moment-to-moment pacing of your edit. The trim tools Ripple trim — move an edit point and the rest of the timeline shifts with it. Roll trim — move the cut between two clips without changing the total […]

Your First Edit — Cutting Clips The core idea in professional editing is three-point editing: mark where a clip starts and ends, then drop it onto the timeline. Three-point editing step by step Double-click a clip in a bin — it opens in the Source monitor. Press I to set the In point (where the […]

Lesson by Mark Janke Watch this lesson — it zooms into each panel as it’s explained. Importing Media & Starting a Project FilmCraft doesn’t copy your footage into a special library — it links to the files on your disk. Import tells FilmCraft where they are. Importing Choose File → Import (or drag files straight […]

Lesson by Mark Janke Welcome to FilmCraft FilmCraft is a free, open-source video editor built to work like Adobe Premiere Pro. If you know Premiere, your hands already know where everything is. It runs natively on macOS, Windows, and Linux, and even in the browser via WebAssembly. It’s built in Rust, from scratch, with its […]