No matter how good your camera or your
shooting skills are, then shooted footages also need to go through editing
stages to bring greater efficiency. For that reason, a video editing
application is the essential tool for you.
Commercial video editing applications, with
professional tools, of course, will be the first choice. However, they are
usually not cheap, while your editing needs might not need them. Maybe you just
want to add a soundtrack to the clip, create a comment for a few scenes in the
video, or add a couple of simple effects, etc. At this point, one of the free
video editing tools below is enough for you to make your purpose fulfilled.
1.
Windows Movie Maker 2012
Windows
Movie Maker 2012
Windows Movie Maker has the advantage of being
very easy to use. Just open the program up and you will just need to drag and
drop clips into the program interface (it supports most video formats). This
video will be instantly assigned to the order of their position. You can easily
and quickly add effects to video, or soundtracks, captions ... After editing,
you can quickly upload your video to YouTube or other social networking websites
such as Facebook... as well as many others to share it with friends. You can
also do some "adjustments" for the video, applying some other tweaks
that the app provides you with. In general, Windows Movie Maker mainly focuses
on simplicity and ease of use for users, helpng users to tweak their videos
quickly and efficiently.
2.
Kate’s Video Toolkit
Kate’s
Video toolkit
Although Kate's Video Toolkit is not
outstanding compared to other applications, but this is a remarkable tool,
because it provides you with basic and the most useful video editing features.
You can "refine" the video, merge several videos into one, and create
soundtracks. The program also gives you tools to convert video formats.
Kate's Video Toolkit’s shortcoming is that
you cannot open the program window in its full size to take advantage of the
resolution of the screen. However, with the advantage of being simple to use,
Kate's Video Toolkit is the right choice if you need a video editing tool to be
both basic and quick.
3.
Avidemux
Avidemux
Avidemux is an open-source video editor
application, which is "small but talented enough", which helps you perform
tasks such as merging clips, trimming clips (without re-encoding them). You can
also apply a lot of cool filters to your video (such as adding a logo, cropping,
flipping, rotating, resizing, removing noise, adjusting brightness and
contrast, etc.). Overall, the Avidemux app is worth your attention, as long as
you try to take a little time to learn how to use it.
4.
VSDC Free Video Editor
VSDC
Free Video Editor
With VSDC Free Video Editor, you will have
to spend quite a bit of time learning how to use, as the tools provided are
very professional. However, the results you get will be worth the try. The app
gives you the ability to draw, color and light correction tools, useful
filters, sound effects, etc. After finishing editing, VSDC Free Video Editor
provides you the ability to store the video in the appropriate format for you
to use on your mobile device, or burn videos to DVD.
5.
MPEG Streamclip 1.2.1b6
MPEG
Streamclip 1.2.1b6
With the program size of only 327KB,
perhaps you will think MPEG Streamclip will only have a limited "capacity".
However, the reality is not quite so. MPEG Streamclip helps you cut, copy,
paste different videos to make a single video on your purpose. However, there
is a fact that using this app, you will face some troubles with the MP4 video format.
MPEG Streamclip probably will suit those who need an editing tool to cut and
convert videos.
6.
VirtualDub
VirtualDub
This app’s limit is that it only supports
AVI files. However, that limit is also a strength of this application. Because
if your video has the supported format, VirtualDub gives you more professional
video editing tools, such as: cut, fade, resize, rotate video at any angle you
want, edit the brightness, adjust contrast ... Learning how to use this tool
would take you a lot of time, because VirtualDub provides many editing tools.
If that is not what you care about, VirtualDub app is worth the experience.
7.
Free Video Dub
Free
Video Dub
If you just skim through it, Free Video Dub
looks like other video trimming tools: Open source video, select the video to
cut, save the results. The difference here is that Free Video Dub does not require
you to encode the video, so you can preserve the quality of your video.
8.
Lightworks
Lightworks
There is another free but more powerful video
editing tool for you. LightWorks offers many advanced features that you
require, such as adding real-time effects, intelligent video trimming tools. In
fact, this is the tool that was used to edit videos for popular films such as
Mission Impossible and Batman.
And just like other professional tools we
mentioned above, you will have to spend quite a bit of time to learn and figure
out how to use this program. It can be said that, LightWorks is not for the
"novices" and you should note that you will actually have to invest
effort to master it.
9.
Freemake Video Converter
Freemake
Video Converter
Freemake Video Converter is essentially a
tool to convert video formats; however, it also has basic editing tools. Just
drag and drop your video into the program interface, then you can cut and paste
videos to your liking. After editing, you can quickly upload videos to YouTube
easily. The application has a simple interface, easy to use.
