Does anyone know of any Really great, free, easy to use video editing software?
Question by Zachary D: Does anyone know of any Really great, free, easy to use video editing software?
I am a 14 year old student in High School, and I am quite the little entrepreneur. I help every year with my little brothers Elementary School “Talent Show”, and I am competing with the “professional” director of the “Talent Show Video” so the principal can see which one is easier to comprehend, which one looks better, and which one would be easier on the school’s budget.
I was wondering if there were any FREE video editing software out there, so I can really pack-a-punch with my competing Talent Show video.
Does any advice on anything else?
I have been told that I make REALLY great videos for YouTube and stuff… but I havent done anything like this before… What type of equipment do I use??? The only equipment I have is an HP PhotoSmart M307 3.2 MP (15x optical zoom) camera, my Dell Inspiron 6000 Laptop, and the Windows Movie Maker Software on my PC.
The School will let me borrow any equipment I need, so any advice?
Thank You!
(I will reward “Best Answer”!)
Best answer:
Answer by Snowskater
Windows Free Media Editor. Its called Windows Movie Maker.
You must use IE to download this product as well, Open source browsers will not allow you to access the site I believe. Windows MovieMaker 2 is a capable little editor and ships free with virtually all new XP computers these days, with upgrades available on the Microsoft Website and other addons available as part of the Plus! package.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/default.mspx or
http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp
Blender
model • shade • animate • render • composite • interactive 3d
Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems.
http://www.blender.org/
Jashaka
The worlds first open source, hardware accelerate editing and effects system! Well worth to check it out.
http://www.jahshaka.org/
Virtual dub
A powerful freeware video editor with lots of features, including a choice of compression codecs, splitting, addition of audio tracks. Excellent.
http://www.virtualdub.org/
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.
http://www.debugmode.com/wax/
Zwei-Stein
Zwei-Stein 3.01 is a freeware non-linear, non-destructive video compositing and editing system which offers many advanced features unavailable elsewhere.
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.
http://www.thugsatbay.com/tab/?q=zweistein_download
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).
http://www.zs4.net/free-software-downloads
Avedit
It 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…
http://www.am-soft.ru/aviedit.html
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.
http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/
DDClip Free 2.23
New version is not free 😉 old one is though.
http://www.softlab-nsk.com/ddclipro/free.html
Atomic Learning’s FREE Video StoryBoard Pro
http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/storyboardpro
SolveigMM AVI Trimmer
SolveigMM AVI Trimmer is a free video editor to allow you to AVI movie cut extremely fast and lossless. This freeware AVI editor software is small, smart, easy to use and involves no encoding/decoding processes. Video enthusiasts use AVI Trimmer to cut commercials, cut video files or edit video for YouTube. AVI Trimmer solves annoying out of sync problem. It operates with all known types of AVI including DV AVI type 1 and 2.
http://www.solveigmm.com/?Products&p=AVITrimmer .
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