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By OSAf W on May. 26, 2008

I have listed out some of the most famous GPL video editing tools. I am not sure if you are looking for a particular OS alone. But the following will run on Windows too (with Linux being always supported ;) )

http://www.virtualdub.org/

http://jahshaka.org/About

http://lives.sourceforge.net/

http://www.avidemux.org/

I am very sure that one of these will fit your needs perfectly. Avidmux seems to be a little more user friendly than the rest and has explicitly mentioned your requirements in its features section. I am personally not a regular video editor, but would definitely go for one of these before I try with one of the paid and proprietary ones.

Let us know your experience with the one you finally decide to use.

By OSAf W on May. 26, 2008

By the way - Virtualdub is not a video editor explicitly but is more like a addon for an editor with some features which could help with the pre or post processing of the video.

By James DSouza on May. 26, 2008

Thanks so much for this! Have you tried any of Adobe's tools? How do they stack up? Free would be nice, of course, and I'm trying to get a sense of what alternatives I have.

Thanks in advance!

By OSAf W on May. 26, 2008

I found some reviews of Adobe Premier video editor, and the reasons to try the open source versions seem to be more compelling for a beginner to intermediate level VJ.

If you are looking something which you will use daily and for official purposes and you have a budget at hand for making an investment try Adobe Premier Pro CS3. Also ensure that you have the right hardware to support the software. The hardware will play a very important role in using the software and you might have to go for an upgrade or purchase a higher end system.

On the other side, if you want to try your hand at video editing, make a home video, do this for fun or to learn more about video editing stick to the open source ones. Also an open source application will give you more insight on the behind the scenes activity of the application, in turn giving you a few pointers on the science of video editing. You will have support from a large community of users who would be able to help you and tell you more.

Technically how a GPL one stacks up with the proprietary one is something which I will not be right person to say as I am not a professional video editor and neither have used a closed source video editor.

Lets see if some of the readers might be able to point us in the right direction.

Links:

http://www.mediacollege.com/adobe/premiere/version/pro-cs3/

http://whdb.com/2008/the-top-50-proprietary-programs-that-drive-you-craz...

http://www.computervideo.net/dec03-1.htm

By James DSouza on May. 27, 2008

Well, I really do not intend to become a professional editor! I am just looking to work with a few videos I have captured and wanted to edit out some junk to shorten them and then potentially add some information (text) to distribute them to friends or upload to YouTube!

Thank you so much for your help!

By an anonymous user on May. 27, 2008

I would just buy a mac and use iMovie!

By an anonymous user on May. 30, 2008

Who are you people? Adobe and iMovie are not 'open source' software. Isn't this an open source site?

By zisel joe on Aug. 25, 2010

Just came across this older question.

Here, I'll share a new tool to help you edit your videos.

This tool called iFunia video converter.

you can use to convert video of all popular formats like AVI, WMV, AVCHD, MKV, FLV, H.264/AVC, MP4, MOV, 3GP,etc. Convert video and save for iPod, iPhone 4, iPad, Apple TV and other portable devices. It also provides a series of practical editing tools: trim, crop, add watermark and effects.

source: http://www.ifunia.com/video-converter-mac.html

By maggiena smith on Feb. 21, 2011

Tenorshare Video Converter can edit video. Using it, you can crop and clip the video, change the size and color of the video. also, you can change the contrast of it.

http://www.tenorshare.com/video-converter.html

By maggiena smith on Feb. 21, 2011

Tenorshare Video Converter can help you edit video by changing the video size, contrast, brightness, etc. and clip and crop the video.

http://www.tenorshare.com/video-converter.html