windows movie maker sucks balls...

[marshalolson]

... and won't create clips so i can atually edit my shit. anyone know of some decent freeware movie editing software?

thanks!

[f2f]

iMovie is free with your purchase of an Apple computer

[marshalolson]

thanks!

[clayd]

I really hate to say this but i dont there is anything out there that will do what you want for free. *(cough)torrents(cough).

If you are really looking for free you could move over to a linux os.
http://www.robfisher.net/video/
That might be a way to go if you dont mind dealing with all the other issues of going to linux.

[advres]

... and won't create clips so i can atually edit my shit. anyone know of some decent freeware movie editing software?

thanks!

Are you looking for something to get you out of a jam quickly or do you want a long term solution? If you just want to use something quickly and be done with it, you can always look into a Adobe Premiere or a similar editing application. Most companies have downloadable trial versions that you could use for a limited time (usually 30-days or so).

Adobe downloads

[nick > jesus]

movie maker does suck, it is hard for me to edit at home on my windows computer when i could edit at school on imacs with final cut and imovie (i have not taken the time to fully figure out final cut)

[Pura Vida]

There are options if you look around.

Virtual dub
A powerful freeware video editor with lots of features, including a choice of compression codecs, splitting, addition of audio tracks. Excellent.
http://www.virtualdub.org/

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.
http://www.debugmode.com/wax/

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.
http://www.thugsatbay.com/tab/?q=zweistein

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...
http://www.am-soft.ru/aviedit.html

Chopper XP
Chopper XP is a tool that lets you extract a part of any DVD easily. It is a Vob cutting program with a video display and a great interface. You just need to scroll to a location and select mark in and out points. The program also lets you set any priority of extraction and displays the estimated time left for extraction.
http://www.digital-miner.com/chopperxp.html

Virtual Edit
Virtual Edit is a semi-professional software video editing package aimed at ambitious content creators to video novices, who want to produce material with a slick and professional look, on a limited budget. Virtual Edit has been written by experts with experience in the Television and Broadcasting industries, which has been encapsulated in this simple software package.
http://www.virtualedit.net/home.htm

DDClip Free 2.23
http://www.softlab-nsk.com/ddclipro/free.html

Avid Free DV
Avid Free DV is feature-streamlined, standalone software which includes basic video and audio editing capabilities, up to two streams of real-time effects and support for both Windows XP and Macintosh OS X platforms.
http://www.avid.com/freedv/

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.
http://www.solveigmm.com/?Products&p=AVITrimmer .

[springsproject]

I'd recommend trying Avid's free download. It's pretty user friendly and should have more than enough features you're looking for to put together simple sequences.

[Dufflogic22]

Adobe Premier works well with windows, but I think it might be pricey

[robokill1981]

Dude you're welcome to come over and use my system. You'll probably want an external hard drive for all your footage, but they can be had really cheap right now. Give me a call/PM me. I'll be back in town on the 2nd.

[Blurred]

Shral, get the program Vegas.

It's pretty damn easy to use, and does everything you need.

It's all free, it's called m o r p h e u s. USE IT!

[Core Shot]

Try Pinnacle Studio

They have $50, $100, and $120 versions
www.pinnaclesys.com

[Nobody Famous]

Which of the above mentioned freeware do the millions of videos on YouTube with music and scrolling titles and fade in/fade out effects use?

I can't believe people pay anything for editing software to put up 2 minute videos of their dogs, cars, kids, home improvement projects or weekend's hot tub action.

[kidwoo]

Try Pinnacle Studio

They have $50, $100, and $120 versions
www.pinnaclesys.com

Just a guess here, but he's probably found something since march of 2007.

[Trackhead]

Go Mac, don't look back.

[cptpowder]

WMM does seem to suck. Can I really only add mp3 tracks to my videos?
Are any of those free movie editor programs any better when it comes to audio files?
I found a Mp4 to mp3 convertor for$15 bucks but do I want to invest more money to stay with WMM?

[advres]

Go Mac, don't look back.

Have you played with the newest version of imovie? it is teh suck. I tried helping a friend with a quick project and did so many facepalms I just threw the footage on my external and cut it for her with FCP. God that program went from a cool tool for beginners to the biggest POS out there. My suggestion, for a mac user, is to keep the old version.

[advres]

WMM does seem to suck. Can I really only add mp3 tracks to my videos?
Are any of those free movie editor programs any better when it comes to audio files?
I found a Mp4 to mp3 convertor for$15 bucks but do I want to invest more money to stay with WMM?

never touched the program but does it not even allow you to import the file? Can you put it into the timeline and render it? Can't you play the audio file in quicktime or something else and export the file as mp3 if that is what is needed? You shouldn't need to buy a program to convert simple files.

If you can't do any of the above, go to versiontracker.com and search for a free app. It will probably default to OSX for an operating system so make sure you select the correct operating system you are user before you search. search something like "audio conversion"

[Fenris]

Have you played with the newest version of imovie? it is teh suck. I tried helping a friend with a quick project and did so many facepalms I just threw the footage on my external and cut it for her with FCP. God that program went from a cool tool for beginners to the biggest POS out there. My suggestion, for a mac user, is to keep the old version.

Enough people complained in the testing process that Apple changed the installer to keep the old iMovie rather than deleting it as they usually do. For those of you with only iMovie 08 installed here is the old version to download. The new version really sucks as a lab monitor. The students come in start it up and say 'this isn't iMovie'. 'Yes it is, it's just new and sucky', and then I direct them over to the Final Cut Express and Pro machines which they figure out quicker.

[Trackhead]

Have you played with the newest version of imovie? it is teh suck. I tried helping a friend with a quick project and did so many facepalms I just threw the footage on my external and cut it for her with FCP. God that program went from a cool tool for beginners to the biggest POS out there. My suggestion, for a mac user, is to keep the old version.

No, but Final Cut Express is only $200 bones.......and for the most part is everything most need.

[advres]

No, but Final Cut Express is only $200 bones.......and for the most part is everything most need.

true, true. I just assumed by your post you were speaking of imovie. Don't get me wrong, the old version was the sickness for home cutting but they funked it up big time which is unlike Apple. They seemed to go 4 steps back instead of forwards.

[Trackhead]

They seemed to go 4 steps back instead of forwards.

What, did they get some idiot PC designer on the case?

[cptpowder]

never touched the program but does it not even allow you to import the file? Can you put it into the timeline and render it? Can't you play the audio file in quicktime or something else and export the file as mp3 if that is what is needed? You shouldn't need to buy a program to convert simple files.

If you can't do any of the above, go to versiontracker.com and search for a free app. It will probably default to OSX for an operating system so make sure you select the correct operating system you are user before you search. search something like "audio conversion"

No it wont allow me to import at all. Ill try your other suggestions though. Thanks.