Top 5 Free Video Editing Software Programs

Microsoft Movie Maker

Microsoft Movie Maker is an easy to use video editor that helps you to create, edit, and share your home movies on your computer. It lets you add transitions and special effects and narration to your video. It also allows you to easily create video greeting cards. It is easy to use and supports drag-and-drop. It also allows you to share your movie through the Web, e-mail, or CD. You can even convert these movies to DVD and save them back to the video tape in your camera which can be played on TV or on the camera itself.

Download Microsoft Movie Maker here.

Avidemux

Avidemux is an open-source multi-purpose video editing and processing tool that can cut, filter and encode videos. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF. It supports non-linear video editing and able to apply visual effects to video. It supports VP8 video decoding and includes built-in subtitle processing, both for Optical Character Recognition of DVD subtitles and for rendering hard subtitle. It is also able to insert audio streams into a video file and extract audio streams from video files. It is compatible with Linux, BSD, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.

 Download Avidemux,for win32 bit click here or here for 64 bit click here or here.

VirtualDub

VirtualDub is a video editing, capturing and processing tool that helps you to capture video from a source like web cam or other input device, and allows you to edit existing video files. It supports batch-processing to process large numbers of files. It features an extensive set of video filters including blur, sharpen, emboss, smooth, 3×3 convolution, flip, resize rotate, brightness/contrast, levels, deinterlace, and threshold. It is able to import & export raw video. It support for 0-255 palette grayscale, drag & drop, gamma correct and alias format filter, TGA RLE compression and more.

Download VirtualDub,for win 32 bit click here for 64 bit click here.

Wax

Wax is a high performance and flexible free video editing tool which can add special effects to your videos. You can use it as standalone application and as a “plug-in” to video editors. It can create 2D & 3D special effects and generate various natural particle effects like fire, smoke, rain etc. It features unlimited video and audio tracks with top-down compositing. It supports all popular image formats including AVI, MPEG, WAV and Flash. It is a useful application for professional editors.

Download Wax here or here.

Zwei-Stein

Zwei-Stein is a non-linear, non-destructive video editing and composting application that lets you combine a variety of media file types. It offers unlimited number of video and audio effects. It can edit up to 256 video, audio and still image clips. It also supports cropping, panning and custom effects and can apply up to 64 video effects per video/image clip. It can also adjust color, opacity and chromacity based on Associated RGB, chroma, green, brightness or shape key. It supports image formats like .avi, .wav, .jpg, .gif, .png and more.

 Download Zwei-Stein here or here.