I am tired of using avs scripts for my video editing. What is a good free video editor that can do 1080 and higher. Won't crash with variable frame rates, can handle modern codecs, and does not have any bs attached?
Lightworks is the most full featured free video editor I'm aware of, but the free version doesn't do anything above 720. AVS Video Editor can handle 1080p I believe, but I think the free version is just a trial (don't quote me on that though, I've never used it).
VirtualDub is open source and the 64bit version can export up to 6k I believe... though it's not a full featured editor. It's more of a processor with some basic editing capabilities. You can cut, splice, trim, replace/adjust audio, do basic visual adjustments, resizes, adjust frame rate etc. So if your needs are relatively basic, then it would probably work for you.
The pickins are pretty slim when it comes to HD and UHD capable free video editors.
Have you taken a look at kdenlive and cinelerra?
kdenlive is easiest and more modern imo.
The best (open source) video editor, especially on Windows, is by far Blender.
Blender is pretty decent but the encoder is unoptimized as can be. a 5 minute 1080p video will render in 30 minutes while my CPU barely cracks 10% utilization.
I never considered Lightworks free. It's almost like a demo until you pay for it.
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And an update, I was able improve render times by halving my fps (I was originally editing 60fps videos) and I was able to render a 3 minute video in a little bit more than 4 minutes and surprisingly, I actually started using CPU power to do so (a massive 30% of CPU utilization).