Free video editing softwares for Home Use

Dear friends,

Have u ever tried to edit a home video or a wedding video of your family members?People search every where for any free utility but even if they find one, those video editors may not be up to their liking.I'm giving you some video editing softwares information that will help you to decide which one to use.

1) Windows Movie Maker - Windows Movie Maker is so easy a child could use it. It gives you the tools to create, edit, and share home movies. Compile and edit a movie from video clips with drag-and-drop functionality plus it has a good collection of transitions and video effects. Add special effects, music, and narration with ease.

Movie Maker comes preinstalled with Win XP SP2. Also, you can download from this location.

2) 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. Wax can create 2D & 3D special effects and can work in two modes - as a standalone application which would appeal for home users/beginners, and as a “plug-in” to video editors/NLEs which would be more useful for professional editors.

Download it from this location.

3) Blender - Blender is the fully integrated 3D graphics creation suite allowing modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, real-time interactive 3D and game creation and playback with cross-platform compatibility. Yes, this is its most important feature; it can run on Windows, Linux or Apple’s Mac.

Download it from this location.

4) SolveigMM AVI Trimmer - SolveigMM AVI Trimmer is a free video editor for fast and lossless AVI editing. This freeware AVI editor is small, smart, easy to use and involves no encoding/decoding processes. No video / audio degradation and out of sync problem arises after editing. All AVI file types of any size and video / audio content are supported.

->-> For advanced editing more media formats - MPEG-2, WMV, ASF, WMA and MP3 use SolveigMM Video Splitter.

Download it from this location.

5) Zwei-Stein - Zwei-Stein 3.01 is a freeware non-linear, non-destructive video compositing and editing system which offers many advanced features. 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.

Download it from this location.

6) 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.

It works on Windows, Linux and Apple’s Mac as well.

Download it from this location.

7) AVIedit - t 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…

AVIedit allows you to join and split avi files, extract frames and do whatever you want. It also allows you to convert avi clips to bmp and bmp to avi, animated GIFs etc.

Download it from this location.

8 Jahshaka - Jahshaka is a video and film compositing, editing and special fx system that uses OpenGL & OpenML hardware rendering to give operators real time interactivity. The system is cross platform, and also includes full CG, paint and image processing modules.

Download it from this location.

9) VirtualDub - A powerful freeware video editor with lots of features, including a choice of compression codecs, splitting, addition of audio tracks.

Download it from this location.

10) 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).

It is compatible for Windows, Linux and MAC OSX as well.

Download it from this location.

Apart from all these above you can use Ulead Media studio Pro or Pinnacle studio .I'm using Ulead Media studiopro8.0 for wedding video and documentary video editing.It is very friendly to use.