Microsoft gives Microsoft 365 users ‘premium filters’ for Clipchamp video editor
As Microsoft begins to bring its Clipchamp video editor closer to Office, it gives those with Microsoft 365 accounts a free perk.
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What you need to know
Microsoft Clipchamp may have an awful name, but its most-online video editor has improved since the companybought it in September 2021.
One of the significant areas for improvement has been around the complex pricing structure, which went from four tiers initially (free, creator, business, business platinum) ranging from free to $40 a month toa more streamlinedfree and $12 a month (essentials). It also bumped the free tier from a measly 720P outputto full HD at 1080P.
Now, in a slight shift, the company is giving those with aMicrosoft 365 subscriptionanother perk to the free tier: Premium filters and effects.
Microsoft noted in November 2021 that it wasintegrating Clipchamp into Office and Microsoft 365, so the news is not a total surprise, but now we see the first real signs of it.
Currently, if you log into Clipchamp with a non-Microsoft 365 account, you only get “free filters and effects,” with the premium ones being reserved for the $12-a-month essentials package.
Out of the 57 filters in the library, nine are listed as premium, including warm countryside, dreamscape, soft B&W, winter sunset, cool tone, and sunrise.
Likewise, for music and SFX, there are plenty of sound clips like hip hop, energy intro, bouncy walk instrumental, dark tense trailer, whoosh lower pitch, and dozens of others listed under premium.
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Subscribing to the essentials package still gets you access to premium audio, image, and video stock in addition to a “brand kit” with logos, colors, and fonts.
It’ll be curious to see what else Microsoft brings to Clipchamp in the coming months and years, but at least it is adding value to its paying users with this small change.
You can readour Clipchamp reviewfrom earlier this spring to get more of an idea of what to expect from Microsoft’s free video editor.
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Clipchamp is a video editor that integrates with popular cloud storage providers like OneDrive and Dropbox. Now, it supports 1080p exports as part of its free basic plan.
Daniel Rubino is the Editor-in-chief of Windows Central. He is also the head reviewer,podcast co-host, and analyst. He has been covering Microsoft since 2007, when this site was called WMExperts (and later Windows Phone Central). His interests include Windows, laptops, next-gen computing, and watches. He has been reviewing laptops since 2015 and is particularly fond of 2-in-1 convertibles, ARM processors, new form factors, and thin-and-light PCs. Before all this tech stuff, he worked on a Ph.D. in linguistics, watched people sleep (for medical purposes!), and ran the projectors at movie theaters because it was fun.
