Video editing is the process of manipulating, adding some effects and rearranging the video. There are various video editing software available. This article provides a list of free video editing tools for Windows and Mac OS.
Video editing tools for Windows:
1. Windows movie maker
Windows Movie Maker is a free video editing tools developed by Microsoft and released in the 14, 2000. It serves various platforms like Widows 7, Windows 8, and Windows Server 2008 etc. Movie maker 2012 is the latest version.
2. VirtualDub
Virtual Dub is developed by Avery Lee. It is a video editing software written in Assembly Language, C++ and was released on December 24, 2010. The various features of VirtualDub are video capture, video creation and video editing.
3. Avidemux
Avidemux is a free video editor which supports various file types like AVI, DVD, MP4 and ASF. It is available for various platforms like Linux, Mac, BSD and Windows. It was developed by Mean, Gruntster and Fahr written in C++ and released in May 10, 2012.
4. Wax
Wax is free video editor software released with lots of effects and lots of transition. Wax can create 2D and 3D special effects. The latest version of Wax is 2.0e. Wax can work as plugin with Pure Motion EditStudio and Adobe Premier.
5. VideoSpin
Video spin was released by Pinnacle. It supports various formats like AVI, MPEG 1, MPEG 2, MOD, MP3, MP4. One of the most important features of VideoSpin is that a video file can be imported in AVI format and the audio can be extracted and can be saved in MP3 format.
Video Editing Tools for Mac:
1. Blender
Blender is a free open source software introduced by Blender Foundation in the year 1995. It is a 3D Computer Graphics Software written in C, C++ and Python. The various features of Blender are non-linear video and audio editing, support for various geometric primitives.
2. iMovie
iMovie was introduced by Apple in September 5 2012. This comes with every MAC system. If you want to buy the software without the system this software should be bought for purchase.
3. Cinefx
Cinefx is a free open source video editing tool currently available in its alpha stage. It covers a collection of tools for media playback, encoding and editing which includes cineplay, cinemode, ncode and cinema.
4. HyperEngine-AV
HyperEngine-AV is one of the most popular video editing tool for Apple computers. The various features of HyperEngine are It provides disk based and real time output and input services to plug-ins and HyperEngine-AV operated on the principle of non-destruction, which means that sound files are never changed, rather, new copies of sound files are generated.