Are there any good FREE video editing/creating programs?

Tim Sing

I just got a new camcorder Samsung SC-MX10 and have no editing software. I mean threes always Windows Movie Maker but that sucks.

I need something half way decent that will keep the original quality of the film. I may consider purchasing something down the line if I really get into it. But there is always a free version of stuff that works just the same. So I thought Iâd ask.

Thanks

Answer
There are a couple around. None of them have the full functionality that a professional grade video editor like Adobe Premiere Pro, Avid or Final Cut Pro do, but some of them still have a fair number of features and capabilities. Best to research any video editor software you come across to see if its features and abilities match your needs.

VideoMach 2.7.2 - FREE - deceptively powerful. Assemble clips, break your video files down into JPG's or BMP's for individual frame editing and the reassemble them into a video file, trim out that pesky frame where you accidentally took a shot of your thumb, Crop, resize, apply filters, audio editing is included aswell (not great, but useable), convert between file formats, make thumbnails for your webpage. a very useful piece of software.
"high performance media processing engine with ability to construct ,join, split, filter, tune and convert digital video, audio, images and image sequences. Supports AVI, MPEG, MP3, FLC, JPEG, PNG, BMP, SGI, WAV, OGG and many other formats."
For a list of all versions, go here:

http://www.gromada.com/

MediaEdit Pro 2 - "Designed specifically for moviemakers, amateur photographers and new creative artists, MediaEdit Pro will show you the world of movie and picture magic and help create professional looking, impressive movie projects. It includes several unique features not found in any other product. This is not your traditional hard to use movie editing environment.
Enhance your projects by adding over 200 included stunning effects, filters and transitions. It is as simple to use as iMovie, but many times more powerful! MediaEdit Pro's ease-of-use lets even beginners create movies that will impress the pros!"

http://www.miensoftware.com/mediaeditpro.html

DDclip - "A professional, non-linear, non-destructive, multitrack, real-time audio and video editor for Windows. It allows you to process and mix up to 32 high-quality audio tracks (24 bit/96 kHz is available) with real-time audio effects (including any DirectX plug-ins) on PC with any Windows-compatible sound card."

http://www.softlab-nsk.com/ddclipro/

DDclip free 2.23 - DDClip Free 2.23 is the most restricted package of DDClip with minimal set of features. The difference between the pro and free version can be seen here

http://www.softlab-nsk.com/ddclipro/free.html

Windows Movie Maker 2 - FREE - An update of WMM that came with Windows XP, supposedly a vast improvement. And it's free.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/moviemaker2.mspx

VirtualDub - VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for Windows platforms (95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP), licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters.

http://www.virtualdub.org/

Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0 - Slightly watered down version of its big brother Premiere Pro (now CS3), Premiere Elements provides basic editing and stability for a great price. If your looking for a product to edit with thats relatively inexpensive this is definetly worth a look. Its only $100 and with what you get its worth it.

http://www.adobe.com/products/premiereel/

Vegas Movie Studio - Sony Vegas is widely becoming the editing program of choice among alot of indie filmmakers. The interface seems to be what people like about it and its price is unbeatable. This package also comes with DVD Authoring software for DVD menu creation, animating, adding buttons, etc. If you are a Brickfilmer who wants alot of features, and doesn't have alot of dough this is THE choice for you. (its only $80) If you already own an Adobe Product or two, Premiere Pro or Elements is a better choice for the integration between them.

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/products/product.asp?pid=446

Good AMV software (free)?

Edward

Hey I'm trying to find a free software what'll allow me to crop, change and edit pieces of video and then remove the audio and add in new audio

Answer
Hello Edward, there are several software that allow crop, change, edit pieces of video and then remove the audio to add new audio. they are listed below. you can select any of them.

1.VideoSpin
VideoSpin is a nicely designed video editing tool both for beginners and professionals. The main functions are: adding text or audio overlays, video effects, 2D transitions, making photo slideshows, deleting unnecessary scenes, uploading ready videos to YouTube or Yahoo! Videos.

2. Virtual Dub
VirtualDub is an open-source software regularly updated by its creators. It has a bit utilitarian interface and may seem uneasy to master, still the software is great to do difficult video editing operations: delete, add, reorder video parts, crop side bars, reduce video file size, convert to grayscale, rotate video, etc.

3. Avidemux
Avidemux is another GPL-based video editor to cut, apply visual effects and transcode videos to other formats, insert or extract audio streams into/from a video file. Avidemux has built-in subtitle processing option and is available for Mac and Linux OSâs as well.

4. Wax
Wax is a free video editing tool which main function is to add special effects for video files. As other video editors it can also delete, add move video scenes, remove black bars, upscale, and rotate videos, work with 3D effects.

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