What is the best free movie making/video editing software for windows?

Question by gummibearrz: What is the best free movie making/video editing software for windows?
My boyfriend is planning on making some gamer videos and I’m trying to find a free program for windows that will let him edit the videos he makes. He needs it to be windows compatible.. anyone know a good one besides windows movie maker?
it has to be absolutely free, no 30 day trials, it has to be free

Best answer:

Answer by Wendy
You can use any of these FREE Video Editing Softwares ………….
They are all FREE & really good……………..

ZS4 Video Editor : http://www.zs4.net/free-software-downloads
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). This program is currently available for OS X, Linux and Windows.
Supported file formats:
Input : iyuv/i420, yv12 and yuv9 avi, mjpg avi, mpng avi, wav, jpg, png, bmp, Other avi files (depending on installed codecs), aif, snd, ico, cur, gif, pnm, pbm, pgm, ppm, xpm, xbm
Output: i420/iyuv-avi, motion-jpg avi, motion-png avi, wav

Avidemux : http://fixounet.free.fr/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. Avidemux is available for Linux, BSD, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows under the GNU GPL license.
Supported file formats: AVI, MPEG, MP4/MOV, OGM, ASF/WMV, MKV and FLV.
Video filters, : resize, deinterlace, IVTC, sharpen and denoise.
Built-in Encoders : x264, Xvid, LAME, TwoLAME and Aften.

VirtualDub : http://www.virtualdub.org/
A powerful freeware video editor with lots of features, including a choice of compression codecs, splitting, addition of audio tracks. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters. VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read (not write) MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images. Excellent. For: 32-bit and 64-bit Windows platforms (98/ME/NT4/2000/XP/Vista/7)
Supported file formats: AVI, MPEG-2/ASF/WMV, BMP.

AVIedit : http://www.am-soft.ru/aviedit.html
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…import anmated GIF’s as .AVI, convert Autodesk FLI/FLC to AVI, export AVI to Autodesk FLI/FLC, import MP3 files to add sound tracks to AVI , convert DV avi Type 1 to Type 2 and back, with optional adding extra audio track, import (convert) MPEG1 files to AVI for easy editing
For: Windows 95/98/98SE/NT4/Win2000/Millennium edition/XP

WAX : http://www.debugmode.com/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.
Input formats : AVI, WAV, all popular image formats.
Output formats : AVI, MPEG, WAV, Flash, all popular image formats.
(AVI and WAV formats support compressed audio too, using Audio Codecs installed in your PC).
For: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista.

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