Free Video Editing Software List for All Platforms

Video editing is something that is becoming ever more prevalent in our world today. A free and powerfull video editor is absolutely crucial; both to the aspiring young director, and the mom who just wants to save some old memories. Most retail video editors cost hundreds of dollars. What's more is that many of these programs are so complex that the average user has no idea how to use it. Thankfully, there are many free programs that can fill the need for any task. Free video editing software is an easy and convenient way to edit your videos, and is great for beginners. We'll try to list all of the FREE video editing software in this article.

For Windows:

• Windows Movie Maker
  You must use IE to download this free video editing software 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.
• AVS Video Editor
  AVS Video Editor is an excellent mixture of power and use of use free video editing software that provides the average user with all the tools you need for home video editing.

• Blender
  model • shade • animate • render • composite • interactive 3d
  Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems.
• Jashaka
  The worlds first open source, hardware accelerate editing and effects system! Well worth to check it out.
• Virtual dub
  A powerful free video editor with lots of features, including a choice of compression codecs, splitting, addition of audio tracks. Excellent.
• 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.
• 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.
• ZS4 Video Editor
  ZS4 Video Editor is free 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).
• 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...
• Avidemux
  Avidemux is a free video editing software 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.
• DDClip Free 2.23
  New version is not free ;-) old one is though.
• Atomic Learning's FREE Video StoryBoard Pro
• 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.

For Mac:

• iMovie
  iMovie that comes with every new Mac (OS X), now called iMoveHD and it's a part of iLife package. Apple iMovie '05 is an excellent (and free) video editor for the Mac platform, with advanced video editing features and a lot of addon and plug-in support. You can find more information about iMovie at Apple's iLife '05 site. Note that this software is free only if you buy a new Mac. You can purchase it, however, if you just want the software.
• Mac Video Editor
  Mac Video Editor is an excellent video converting and video editing software for Macintosh users. This Video Editor for Mac packs more editing features into an intuitive interface, such as video trim, movie cropping and video effects adjustment.

• Blender
  model • shade • animate • render • composite • interactive 3d
  Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems.

• Avidemux
  Avidemux is a free video editing software 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.

• Jashaka
  The worlds first open source, hardware accelerate editing and effects system! Well worth to check it out.

• HyperEngine-AV
  Multimedia authoring software for capturing, editing, organizing, processing, and exporting video, audio, and text to create DVD quality movies and slide shows.

• Atomic Learning's FREE Video StoryBoard Pro

• ZS4 Video Editor
  ZS4 Video Editor is free 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).

For Linux:

• Cinelerra
  INELERRA, the first Linux based real-time editing and special effects system is a revolutionary Open Source HD media editing system. Long developed by Heroine Warrior with vital assistance from LMA, Cinelerra gives you real-time 1080p editing and compositing power on a state-of-art Linux video workstation.
  
• Lives
  LiVES began in 2002 as the Linux Video Editing System. Since it now runs on more operating systems, LiVES is a Video Editing System. It is designed to be simple to use, yet powerful. It is small in size, yet it has many advanced features.

• Blender
  model • shade • animate • render • composite • interactive 3d
  Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems.

• Kino
  Kino is a non-linear DV editor for GNU/Linux. It features excellent integration with IEEE-1394 for capture, VTR control, and recording back to the camera. It captures video to disk in Raw DV and AVI format, in both type-1 DV and type-2 DV (separate audio stream) encodings.

• Jashaka
  The worlds first open source, hardware accelerate editing and effects system! Well worth to check it out.

• 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.

• Kdenlive
  Kdenlive is a non linear video editor for the KDE environment running on Linux.

• ZS4 Video Editor
  ZS4 Video Editor is free 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).

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