7 Applications for Video Editing

Guest post by Srikanth AD

If you are a film lover or a YouTube enthusiast and are in search of a video editing software, you might want to try out the following applications which enable you to edit videos, add effects, trim and mix audio files etc., and thereby giving a professional look to your video file.

Avs Video Editor: It’s a freeware utility for video editing which supports various kinds of video formats. You can choose 300 different video effects and picture-in-picture feature. Advance time-line and storyboard enables precise editing.

It enables you to edit videos directly from HD-cameras, supports all key formats. You can even burn DVD’s and CD’s using this software. It also allows you to insert audio files to your video and mix or trim audio files.

Video Dub: This software gives the freedom of editing videos which are in AVI, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 formats. It’s a free video editing software where you can delete unwanted video clips without re-encoding, i.e. the original quality of the video is unchanged. It supports many video formats like AVI, MOV, MP4, M4V, MPG, DivX and Xvid.

Video Pad Video Editor Software: Video Pad is professional video editing software where you can create movie projects from collections of video clips. This software features effects like cropping and transition, giving a professional look to the video file. It supports various kinds of formats including .3gp,.wmv, .divx and many more. It is designed to create effective videos with ease.

Windows Movie Maker: Windows moviemaker is a free application that comes with the Windows operating system. Using this application, you can create your own movie, by downloading the video file from the camcorder and mix it with the existing audio and video files. After creating the movie, you can share the file with your family and friends directly through moviemaker via an e-mail or post it onto a website.

VideoThang: VideoThang is a really cool software to edit videos. It supports various formats, enabling you to edit videos in any common formats like .wmv, .avi, .mpg etc., It enables you to create photo slideshows with fade-in and fade-out effects. Editing controls of VideoThang are easy, just drag and drop the video and cut, trim and build the video, it is that easy.

MPEG Streamclip: This software is a professional video editor. It serves as both, a media player as well as editor. It supports various formats including Quicktime, DV, MPEG-4, MPEG-1 MPEG-2 or VOB files. It provides high quality videos and can export all the above formats into one another in a HD quality video. You can select the frame size of the video and even insert audio files and convert them into various other formats. It has the ability to handle files of up to 4GB. This software gives you the ability to preview the files before conversion. Separate versions of both windows pc and Mac MPEG Streamclip software are available.

Jahshaka: Jahshaka is a free professional video, audio editing software. It can feed real-time image processing and edit DV, SD, HD and you can do 3D composing and flash animation using this software. It features color correction, tracking and media support. It comes with JahPlayer, which works with all kinds of formats. There are different versions available for Wndows and Macintosh systems.

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