Free Video Editing Software Programs

Quick Overview

This page is all about free video editing software. Are you looking for a good free video editing program? There are many free video making programs available for free to download and use including freeware and open source, they are all free of charge. Some people don’t even know that they already have a video editing application installed in their computer. What I mean by that? Windows Movie Maker is a free video editing software program which is already installed in your computer if you are using Microsoft Windows XP. You can access it by selecting Start Menu > Programs > Windows Movie Maker.

You don’t have to spend a dime for just a simple video editing task such as trimming, splicing, cutting and arranging video across the timeline, color manipulation or adding some effects and titles. Free video editor program can do that.

You will find a list of free video editing programs which are available on the internet today as well reviews, ratings and what other people voting for their favorite one in the following. You can also share your experiences and make it useful for other people in choosing the best video editing software by rating, voting and commenting on each program you have ever used.

If you are looking for full featured product, there are also many of them available to choose such as Adobe Premiere Elements, Corel VideoStudio, CyberLink PowerDirector, Sony Vegas Movie Studio,Pinnacle Studio and more. You can find in more detail on Video Editing Software Reviews and Ratings page.

Free Video Editing Software Ratings

I also encourage everyone (including you) who ever have experience of using free video editing software before, please share your experience and make it useful, helpful for other by doing the following rating.

Please Note: to make this rating more useful and helpful information, please rate only the software you ever experience, for the video editing program which you never use please do not rate it.

Software Name	User Rating
Windows Movie Maker	(54 votes)  Loading ...
Avidemux	(29 votes)  Loading ...
VideoThang	(12 votes)  Loading ...
ZS4 Video Editor	(25 votes)  Loading ...
VirtualDub	(17 votes)  Loading ...
Wax – Video Editor	(18 votes)  Loading ...
Pinnacle VideoSpin	(18 votes)  Loading ...
MPEG Streamclip	(13 votes)  Loading ...
Cinefx	(21 votes)  Loading ...

Free Video Editing Software Voting

These are the free video editor software programs available on the internet today.  And as an experienced user, what is your favorite free video editing software? You can tell the world through the following poll. The reasons I design this voting is to solve the problem which many other users have in choosing free editing program by finding out which is the most popular and best free video editing software. To achieve this goal, user involvement and participation (including you) is very important, necessary and need. I encourage the users which have experience with the software to vote the following poll:

Please Note:

1. You can only vote for one time.
2. After voting, you will see the result of what you have voted and other people voting immediately. (You also can see result without voting by just click on View Result link below Vote button)
3. The voting result will continue showing and change based on number voting from time to time. Therefore do not forget to check result sometime.

Free Video Editing Software Reviews

You can read reviews on free video editing software as well as sharing your experiences with each program you have ever used in following:

Windows Movie Maker

(Windows)
Windows Movie Maker is a free video editing software application which is already installed in your computer if you are using Microsoft Windows XP. You can access it by selecting Start Menu > Programs > Windows Movie Maker. The program provides you all basic video editing features such as trimming, splitting, combining, titles and credits, effects, transitions, audio track, timeline narration. It also allows you to apply basic effects to audio tracks and video such as fade in or fade out.

Avidemux

(Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD)
Avidemux is a free open source video editing software program developed by Mean <fixounet at free dot fr>, released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The program is designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks on AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF. It provides basic video editing features.

VideoThang

(Windows)
VideoThang is a freeware video editing software program developed and provided by VideoThang LLC. The program provides solution for video creation, editing and sharing. It allows user to import various video, music and photo such as WMV, AVI, MOV, MPG, MP3 and JPG. Simple editing control including cut, trim, build. Sharing video with friend or upload it to YouTube.

ZS4 Video Editor

(Windows, Mac OS X, Linux)
ZS4 Video Editor is a free video editing application (the new incarnation of Zwei-Stein Video Editor), developed by t@b. The program is advanced video editing and compositing software with a large number of built-in video effects. There are various features you can found in the program such as unlimited number of video and audio effects for every track, cropping, zooming, panning, volume, rotation, opacity, key-color and manipulate the flow of time, forward, backward, speed up and slow down smoothly.

VirtualDub

(Windows)
VirtualDub is a free video editing software program developed by Avery Lee, licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). You can download and use it for free. It provides user the video capture and processing utility. VirtualDub is a small program which available for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows platforms. The program is designed for fast linear operations over video, but not focus on general-purpose video editor.

Wax – Video Editor

(Windows)
Wax is a free video editing software program developed by Satish Kumar. It is a freeware video editor for business or personal use which is designed for video compositing and special effects. Wax allows user to create 2D and 3D special effects and can work in two modes (standalone application or plug-in to video editors). The program can work as a plug-in with Sony Vegas, Adobe Premiere and Pure Motion EditStudio. Wax has simple interface.

Pinnacle VideoSpin

(Windows)
VideoSpin is a free video editing program developed by Avid Technology, Inc. It is a brand new tool that allows you to create your own movie clips in minutes using your own videos and pictures. The program is similar to Pinnacle Studio (a paid video editing version), but there are some missing features such as storyboard, video and audio toolboxes, capture digital and analogue video feature, SmartSound and Scorefitter music generator.

MPEG Streamclip

(Windows, Mac OS X)
MPEG Streamclip is a free video editor, converter and player for MPEG, QuickTime, transport streams, iPod developed by Squared 5. The program is available for both Windows and Mac platform. With the software, you can play, edit (basic editing feature cut, copy, paste, and trim) various video file formats including QuickTime, DV, AVI, MPEG-4, MPEG-1, MPEG-2 or VOB files and then export all these formats to QuickTime, DV, AVI / DivX and MPEG-4.

Cinefx – Jahshaka Reinvented

(Windows, Mac OS X, Linux)
Jahshaka developer is pleased to announce that the jahshaka project has been reinvented as Cinefx on February 2009. Jahshaka is a free video editing software program developed by Jahshaka Project, it provides solution for film compositing, editing and special fx system that uses OpenGL and OpenML hardware rendering to give operators real time interactivity, is now Cinefx, released under the GNU General Public License.

Avid Free DV

(Discontinued Product)
Avid Free DV is no longer available. The product is discontinued. Avid Free DV is a free video editing program developed by Avid Technology, Inc. It used to be the popular free video editing software available to download and use for free, and available for both platforms Windows and Mac OS X. Providing all basic video and audio editing capabilities.

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