Free video editing for Windows

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What would be a good free video editing application for Windows? Should be something fairly easy to use as it would be for a "not so computer literate" woman... I noticed Microsoft has something for free, but wondering if there are alternatives.

 

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Does it matter if their male of female?

The bog standard windows movie maker is good enough for basic video editing. Next step up from there is sony vegas or something similar as far as I know.

 

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There's not much simpler than Windows Movie Maker. If yoiu're willing to go a little more complex then you could check out Avudemux

 

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Movie Maker rocks. Drag and Drop and your done!

But something like Sony Vegas is good as well. It's not that hard to use either.

 

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my sister has a few video's of her daughter at a Christmas program bu the video somehow when viewed i as if he video camera was on its side .. is there a simple way to rotate the video ?

 

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I recommend avidemux, great piece of software, and it's open source as well

 

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Just thought of something, does the movie maker support exporting to anything else then WMA format?

 

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Xtreme Barton said:

my sister has a few video's of her daughter at a Christmas program bu the video somehow when viewed i as if he video camera was on its side .. is there a simple way to rotate the video ?

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Yep, you can add transform filters to your video.

 

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^
thank you

 

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dropadrop said:

Just thought of something, does the movie maker support exporting to anything else then WMA format?

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Honestly don't know ATM, but there are plenty of programs that will change the format: Avidemux and super are both good for that.

 

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What do you mean by editing? Adding titles, chapters and such like for a home video or stripping out unwanted content like foreign audio tracks, subtitles etc....

 

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FudgeNuggets said:

What do you mean by editing? Adding titles, chapters and such like for a home video or stripping out unwanted content like foreign audio tracks, subtitles etc....

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I would imagine they just have video clips and want to put them together, maybe adding music on the background and some title. For now I'm recommending movie maker. Thanks for the responses.

 

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Too bad they don't have a Mac, iMovie is really easy to use and has great options.

 

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surprised noone has mentioned virtualdub, great piece of free software

 

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curtis1552 said:

Too bad they don't have a Mac, iMovie is really easy to use and has great options.

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Yeah, iMovie is very nice.