Before you ever edit a video, there’s the admin. You’re left to sort through hours of clips and B-roll, correct subtitles, and sync your audio before you’ve got something worth watching. Wondershare Filmora 16 is built to take some of that work off your hands, giving you more time to focus on the video itself.
You’re getting a video editor that’ll let you manage the whole process without switching between separate recording and editing apps. You can capture your screen, webcam, and audio separately, correct recurring mistakes in your subtitles, or choose different viewing angles from your 360° footage. With AI tools that’ll help you find relevant clips and fix transcription errors along the way, Wondershare Filmora 16 means you'll spend less time preparing your footage and more time getting it ready for socials.
Spend less time sorting footage
You’ve come back from a trip with hundreds of clips to sort through. Finding that one particular shot to use, up until now, would mean opening up hundreds of different files. With Filmora 16’s AI media analysis at your disposal, however, you’ve got more to go on than just a thumbnail.
This AI tool will work through your videos and images to pick out people, scenes, locations, and actions. It’ll generate tags and descriptions, but it’ll also suggest timestamps to help you jump to relevant moments within a clip. You can then search through and filter the analyzed footage so you can find what you need.
This is a productivity must-have for video editors. For instance, if you’re a vlogger, you can find that one scene you need without working through each individual clip. You still get to choose which shots make the cut, but there’s less manual sorting to work through first.
Take subtitles from transcription to finished video
If you’re recording a tutorial, automatic subtitles can save you hours of typing, but they can also get the same technical terms wrong throughout. Filmora 16’s Smart Text Correction suggests fixes and supports batch corrections, with a personal dictionary for specialist terms you use regularly.
You can generate your subtitles from speech, then use animated captions and text presets to give them a consistent style. For more control over how your text looks, there are options for perspective, 3D and curved text, too.
If you’re editing an interview, Filmora’s speaker detection can help distinguish between speakers in the generated captions. To use it, enable Detect Speakers in the Speech to Text tool before generating the captions. With Filmora’s AI Text-Based Editing, you can cut unwanted sections simply by deleting the corresponding text in the transcript. You can also translate subtitles into other languages within the editor. or projects that need translated speech as well as captions, the AI Video Translation feature offers dubbing capabilities. You’ll still need to review the wording, timing, translations, and any generated speech before publishing.
Turn your 360° footage into multiple shots
A 360° camera gives you more than one angle to work with. It's helpful for capturing everything around you, but you still need to decide what your viewers should see. Let’s assume you’re recording a bike ride. You might want to show the route ahead, and then bring yourself back into shot or turn towards a landmark without having to reposition the camera while riding.
Filmora 16’s 360° video reframing takes care of the problem. You can shift your decision-making to the editing suite, as it’ll let you turn supported 360° footage into conventional video clips. You can drag and scroll to adjust the view, then work with the footage using the regular editing timeline. There are wide-angle, fisheye, and tiny planet presets that’ll give you different starting points, too, depending on the look you’re going for.
When you’re changing views during a clip, you can use keyframes to control the framing at different moments, or switch between camera movement presets to add movement without setting each keyframe yourself. You'll get different perspectives from one set of footage without having to film each angle separately.
Keep recording and editing together
Whether you're a streamer, teacher, product reviewer, or software developer, you'll often need to record your screen alongside your webcam, microphone, and system audio. Keeping those sources in sync is a challenge, but you’ll also want the flexibility to edit each one separately. With Filmora 16’s multi-source recording functionality and multi-track mode enabled, you’re able to capture all four as separate, synchronized tracks that you can edit and manipulate as you need to.
You can then chop, change, and reposition each source as needed without affecting the others. For instance, you might reposition or resize your webcam footage while leaving your screen recording intact, or adjust your microphone volume without affecting the volume of your recorded system audio.
For gaming creators with a Windows PC, Filmora 16 also offers dedicated game recording. It uses a dedicated capture method specifically designed for gameplay, so you can capture footage from compatible game windows it detects and continue editing in the same application. Once you’ve finished recording, you can select and cut together the moments you want to feature, then add commentary, subtitles, music, and effects. Keeping recording and editing together makes it easier to turn a long gameplay session into a finished highlights video, with control over what stays in the cut and how it is presented.
Keep moving subjects in frame with Camera Tracking
It’s tricky to keep a moving subject in frame. Typically, you'd need to pan the camera while recording or manually adjust the framing during editing. Filmora 16’s camera tracking functionality means you can just follow a person’s head or body. It’ll create an automatic camera-following effect that’ll keep the frame focused on their movement, which is useful for dance routines or sports footage. You can draw a selection around other targets, like a pet or object, too, and adjust settings like the subject size or crop compensation to control how large the subject appears and compensate for empty edges as the framing moves.
Fine-tune the parts of your image that matter with Color Mask
As for color, you could have a whole app’s worth of settings dedicated to how your video looks. Shades, contrast, and saturation all have a huge impact on how your final video looks. You might need to brighten an outdoor shot to get a good, clear look at a subject’s face, but doing so could leave the sky washed out.
With color masking in Filmora 16, you can select areas and adjust them independently. You can brighten your subject, darken the sky, and change your background colors, all without applying the same correction across the entire frame.
Filmora 16’s Color Mask lets you manually select a specific area using shape masks, draw masks, or AI masks, then adjust its color and tone independently. You could brighten an underexposed face while preserving the sky, or refine the background’s color without changing your subject. This gives you more precise control over the balance and mood of a shot, with local adjustments available directly in your editing workflow.
For creators developing commercials, brand films or product videos, Wondershare also offers Filmora.TV, a browser-based AI creative studio. It brings visual planning, AI content generation, timeline editing and team feedback into one connected workspace.
Plans and pricing
Wondershare Filmora 16 gives you a choice between paying annually or buying a one-off perpetual license. The Basic plan, which lets you edit and export videos in up to 4K without a watermark, costs $49.99 a year. Advanced, which offers everything in Basic, plus 10GB of cloud storage, is currently priced at $59.99 a year and includes 1,000 AI credits every month.
Premium costs $99.99 a year and has 2,000 AI credits a month, along with 100GB of cloud storage and access to Filmora’s Creative Assets library. All three annual plans renew automatically and include major version upgrades while you’re subscribed.
You can also grab Filmora 16 for a one-off $79.99 fee upfront. This includes Filmora 16 updates, along with a one-off allowance of 1,000 AI credits, but you won’t get any future major version upgrades, and an optional Creative Assets subscription will cost you extra.
Filmora 16 is the real deal: It’s a video editor, screen recorder, and effects studio that’ll help you put together videos while spending less time on boring admin. You’ve got presets to get you started, AI tools to help with the repetitive work, and detailed controls to let you tweak and adjust. From recording at your desk to editing footage on-the-go, Wondershare Filmora 16 gives you the tools to become a serious video editor without years of training.