How many times have you fall into a situation when you want to edit your movies or any of your favorite videos? People search every where for any free utility but even if they find one, those video editors may not be up to their liking.
Out here at Aarambh, finally I decided to compile a list of top 10 free video editing softwares so that our readers may get benefited to larger extent.
1) Windows Movie Maker - Windows Movie Maker is so easy a child could use it. It gives you the tools to create, edit, and share home movies. Compile and edit a movie from video clips with drag-and-drop functionality plus it has a good collection of transitions and video effects. Add special effects, music, and narration with ease.
Movie Maker comes preinstalled with Win XP SP2. Also, you can download from this location.
2) WAX - Wax is a high performance and flexible video compositing and special effects software. The idea for Wax is to be very general purpose and flexible in video compositing and effects, so that you can compose your dream video sequence with ease everytime. Wax can create 2D & 3D special effects and can work in two modes – as a standalone application which would appeal for home users/beginners, and as a “plug-in” to video editors/NLEs which would be more useful for professional editors.
Download it from this location.
3) Blender - Blender is the fully integrated 3D graphics creation suite allowing modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, real-time interactive 3D and game creation and playback with cross-platform compatibility. Yes, this is its most important feature; it can run on Windows, Linux or Apple’s Mac.
Download it from this location.
4) SolveigMM AVI Trimmer - SolveigMM AVI Trimmer is a free video editor for fast and lossless AVI editing. This freeware AVI editor is small, smart, easy to use and involves no encoding/decoding processes. No video / audio degradation and out of sync problem arises after editing. All AVI file types of any size and video / audio content are supported.
->-> For advanced editing more media formats – MPEG-2, WMV, ASF, WMA and MP3 use SolveigMM Video Splitter.
Download it from this location.
5) Zwei-Stein - Zwei-Stein 3.01 is a freeware non-linear, non-destructive video compositing and editing system which offers many advanced features. With Zwei-Stein you can edit up to 256 video, audio and still image clips, each with up to 64 effects chained serially. Cropping, panning and custom effects are easy with automatic key frames.
Download it from this location.
6) Avidemux - Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities.
It works on Windows, Linux and Apple’s Mac as well.
Download it from this location.
7) AVIedit - t is a great tool to work with .AVI files. Regardless of small executable size, this avi editor offers you unlimited power of digital video processing. Some high-tech tricks included into AVIedit allows you to perform with ease and fun the many interesting things, like video warping, color restore, noise reduction and so on…
AVIedit allows you to join and split avi files, extract frames and do whatever you want. It also allows you to convert avi clips to bmp and bmp to avi, animated GIFs etc.
Download it from this location.
8 Jahshaka - Jahshaka is a video and film compositing, editing and special fx system that uses OpenGL & OpenML hardware rendering to give operators real time interactivity. The system is cross platform, and also includes full CG, paint and image processing modules.
Download it from this location.
9) VirtualDub - A powerful freeware video editor with lots of features, including a choice of compression codecs, splitting, addition of audio tracks.
Download it from this location.
10) ZS4 Video Editor - ZS4 Video Editor is video editing and compositing software which aims to provide media experts with a facility to combine a variety of media types (currently photos, videos and audio files) into one (or more) output file(s).
It is compatible for Windows, Linux and MAC OSX as well.
Download it from this location.
So have you tried any of these before? Or, do you know any other free video editing softwares? Please share those with us as well. I will add them to this list.
Updates:- These are also free video editing softwares suggested by our dear readers:-
1) Video Spin suggested by Arpit.
VideoSpin is free video editing software that allows you to create your own movie clips in minutes using your own videos and pictures. Download it from this location.
Hi !!
Very Good list . I am sure that you had to work very hard to complete this post .
Well , I use VideoSpin . It is also FREE and do very well , even for Flash Import !! See it here http://www.videospin.com and add it to the list if find it Cool !!
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@Arpit
Yea, VideoSpin is cool. I have added it to the list. Thanks for the information.
Nice list. I dont edit videos freqently, but will try out a few from here.
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Nice list. Where have you been ? I don’t see new update for quite long.
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I see…But please write something when you have the time. We’re waiting to hear about your new job. Cheers
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Nice to hear that you visit my blog frequently. It’s really a great feeling when your visitor turn into readers.
Thanks dear and I’ll surely write about my happenings soon.
yes windows movie maker is so easy but at the same time it lacks of every majr feature that video editing needs we can say its just a cutter
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Another great collection… I’m digging this list!
good software creaters
very good keep it up
I have tried movie maker and its simple yet very useful and nice.
Virtuadub is the one I use a lot. Haven’t heard about most of the stuff you mentioned. Going to check them out.
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Gr8 List
Thanks
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I want some video editing softwares with good built in effects to edit a video. Can u provide me a link so that I can download it for free and use it.
Which one of these will be useful to edit face on videos?
Thanks
I want some video editing softwares with good built in effects to edit a video. Can u provide me a link so that I can download it for free and use it.
Nice list!
AVS video editor is a very good editor. You should try it.