An local-first timeline editor. Finish captions, text, and export on your PC—no cloud upload to edit. Buy once on Steam and keep it for life.
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ABOUT THIS APPLICATIONEdit videos. No subscription — pay once, own it forever.
Strange Video Editor is a fast, local-first video editor built for YouTubers, streamers, and short-form creators. No subscription. No cloud. No account. Your footage never leaves your PC.
A real editor, not a toy
Multi-lane timeline for video, text, timers, images, music, narration, captions, drawings, mosaic, and zoom paths. Magnetic snapping pulls clip edges together — and when a sub-second gap hides between two clips, the timeline flags it and one click welds them shut. Cut, split, trim, per-clip speed and reverse, fades, color grades, and one-click silence removal across every take, with a bake tool that merges the trimmed pieces back into one clean clip. Preview any source file first and insert only the range you need. Templates for YouTube (16:9), Shorts, TikTok and Reels (9:16), and Instagram (1:1, 4:5). Export MP4 (H.264) or WebM in 1080p or 4K, hardware-accelerated and rendered exactly as previewed.
Built-in 2D character presenter
Direct your own mascot right inside the editor. Three characters with eight color outfit sets and twenty facial expressions. The character lip-syncs to the narration on your timeline and gestures along with the energy of your voice — or, with your explicit consent, mirrors your face and arm movements live through your webcam, processed entirely on your PC with no motion-capture rig. Stand it at a chalkboard, podium, or classroom stage, keep inserted images behind it with one switch, show it for the whole video or only inside timeline ranges, and record a live take of the character mirroring you. Everything you see is rendered into your export.
Creator tools that run 100% locally
Automatic captions powered by on-device Whisper — no audio is ever uploaded; export as .srt or burn them in. Mic recording with voice effects (deep, helium, robot, and more) and volume boost up to 500% per clip. AI object cutout (SAM 2) and background removal (BEN2) running on your GPU. Image Reaction swaps your avatar image automatically while you speak. Iris transitions, screen-zoom paths, pointer badges, mosaic, and timers.
Private by design
Editing, rendering, and every AI feature above run on your machine. Work offline on a plane. Your videos, voice, and projects stay yours.
One price. Free updates.
Buy once and every app update is free — no tiers, no watermarks, no monthly ransom.
Interface available in English, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and Spanish.
A fast, local video editor for YouTubers and short-form creators. Timeline editing, on-device AI captions, 4K export, and a built-in 2D character that lip-syncs to your narration or mirrors you through your webcam. No subscription, no cloud, no watermark — pay once, own it forever.
Strange Video Editor — Premium, Fast, Local, No Subscription costs $28.00 right now. That's 30% off the regular price of $40.00.
Based on Wish9's price records and IsThereAnyDeal history, the lowest price is $28.00.
The current price ($28.00) is at or very close to the lowest price on record. It has gone on sale 1 time in the past year. The next big Steam sale, the Steam Scream Fest, starts in 6 days. This is for reference, based on past price records, and doesn't guarantee future prices.
Recommended: Graphics card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 / AMD Radeon RX 570 or better (WebGPU-capable) for faster timeline preview, export, and SAM 2 object pick, Processor Intel Core i5-10400 / AMD Ryzen 5 3600 or better, Memory 16 GB RAM. Minimum: Graphics card Integrated graphics (Intel UHD / AMD Radeon) — CPU works; optional AI object pick (SAM 2) may be slow without a discrete GPU, Processor Intel Core i5-8250U / AMD Ryzen 5 2500U or better, Memory 8 GB RAM. Save your PC specs on Wish9 to compare them with this game instantly.
