Ok, I rarely post on these forums, I just moderate. But I could use some help on something. I usually use Windows Movie Maker for editing videos. That's ok but the quality isn't that great. Does anyone know of good, free video editing software? I can't afford to buy anything and already know of trials. But if you could point me in the direction to some good software for this I'd really appreciate it. Thanks!
-Chip
It depends on what your trying to do and what type of computer you have. I finally broke down and got cyberlink power director ultra version8. There are tons of reasons for each editor, but I got this cause it runs on cuda. This lets it run on your gpu. I used to have powerdirector 7, which didnt have this feature and it was so slow, even though I am still using a intel I7.
Now with Power8 and and it using my 285gtx along with my I7, this cuda powered program screams.
The first consumer video editing software to be optimized for Intel Core i7, NVIDIA CUDA, and ATI Stream technology, Power-Director delivers up to 5X faster performance for rendering effects and trans coding videos, with vastly improved editing and previewing speeds.
Learn more about faster performance
Actually anything cuda powered will be faster regardless if your using a 285gtx, just because of how the programing architecture is utilized. Badaboom mediaconverter by nvidia can convert whole movies in about 30 seconds with superb quality using cuda.
check it out- hope this helps in your search
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oops- sorry its not free
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goodgotd
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It depends on what your trying to do... oh, my, yes. if you want to do nonlinear editing (that's what womble mpeg wizard dvd did- full control over what order and timing your video and (separately) audio shows up- well, if you got that.... *use it!*) there are some free- but most with gotchas or heavy learning curves.
Zwei-Stein Video Editor v3.01 is still available.
for more to check out, look at the Closed-source freeware part of the List of video editing software at wikipedia.
dunno where VirtualDub 1.9.7 Stable fits.
if you want to clip commercials or parts of home video that didn't come out right and then stick the rest together- depending on formats- you've got some decent choices that are easy to use- and faster generally since they split and join without re-encoding. and without quality loss.
the ones I use most are Easy Video Splitter and Easy Video Joiner from doeasier.org
dvdvideosoft has a nice set of freebies, including Free Video Dub.
also root around places like the Video Players/Editors section of freewarefiles.
Virtual Dub, but it only outputs in avi, of course I guess you could always use a converter if you desired anything else. It inputs mpg, bmp, and avi's.
Avidemux, this is mostly used for cropping your videos, but may be useful. Supports way more files than Virtual Dub though.
Thanks everyone for all your helpful comments. For now I'll stick with Movie Maker until I find one that suites my needs. Thanks!
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