Need Free Video Editing Software

Anyone know where I can get some free video editing software online? My software is old and buggy and may now even be unusable... and I'm trying to get the video special feature for the website out for this month!

If you just need basic editing and conversion capabilities, I recommend Freemake. It supports quite a lot of formats, includes an editor, and is very intuitive.

http://www.freemake.com

Can you add text to the video you edit? I like to add "text commentary" to the videos I make.

Hmm, no text or subtitles with Freemake.

Have you tried Windows Movie Maker? It probably came with your OS. I haven't used it much, but I seem to recall it having the option to add text to a video.

For adding text and subtitles, I would try DVDAuthor, and GUI for DVDAuthor.
Both of those, along with a host of other resources can be found at
http://videohelp.com

Here's a direct link to the utility
http://www.videohelp.com/tools/GUI-for-dvdauthor

This utility is not for the faint of heart. It is based on Virtualdub (also free under GNU), which I've only ever used through secondary builds. If you've got the patience for the learning curve, it will reward you.

Lightworks is free. Don't know about subtitles though.

http://www.lightworksbeta.com/

mindspike wrote:Hmm, no text or subtitles with Freemake.

Have you tried Windows Movie Maker? It probably came with your OS. I haven't used it much, but I seem to recall it having the option to add text to a video.

Yeah, but it does this weird thing where it cuts 4 seconds of sound out every time I make an edit. So it's not a good option. Thanks for the other links, though!

PhoenixFire wrote:Lightworks is free. Don't know about subtitles though.

http://www.lightworksbeta.com/

Thanks, PhoenixFire! I'll check it out!

iMovie... comes with every mac

Hackmodford wrote:iMovie... comes with every mac

Oh that's right! Where did you say they were giving those away again?