5 Free Video Editing Tools

Video editing tools could always beautify your personal videos before you uploading to websites for sharing. There are many of these programs that can be found, such as YouTube video editor, iMovie, etc., as have mentioned before. This article would introduce some other free video editors for readers’ reference.

1. YouTube video editor
As the largest video sharing hub in the world, YouTube offer users an easy way to edit the videos they’ve uploaded to the YouTube website. Some of the basic video editing effects and also some new features exist as face blurring, 3D, etc. YouTube Video editor absolutely make your video editing and sharing effortlessly.

2. Windows Movie Maker
This free movie maker for editing videos by Microsoft has been discussed before in my previous blogs. In windows XP OS PC, you can make your own videos, and then edit the picture, audio effects for better viewing. Microsoft has many add-ons for this movie maker. Updates are available in the official Microsoft website.

3.Wax
Wax is definitely a good choice as a high performance and flexible video compositing and special effects software, whether for personal use or for business use. You can compose your dream video sequence with ease by using this tool. Being used as either a stand-alone video editor or as a plugin to other video editor, it would always perform well. It supports many video formats and also can create 3D viewing mode. It’s perfect for both beginners and professional users.

4. Zwei-Stein 
Well, this is free for personal use. With a technical interface, this full featured editor can edit up to 256 video, audio, and still image clips, each with up to 64 effects chained serially. Cropping, panning and custom effects are easy with automatic key frames.

 5. ZS4 Video Editor
As the new incarnation of Zwei-Stein, ZS4 Video Editor is advanced video editng and compositing toll with over 150 built-in video effects.

Many other video editors like Avid FreeDV which supports both Mac and Windows. This solid video software provides basic video and audio editing capabilities, as well as up to two streams of real-time effects. But it is not available any more.

Maybe you can choose one that is suitable for your video sharing needs. Although people do think that free ware like Windows movie maker just change videos slightly. After all, they’ll make your videos full of fun with some basic effects for free.

What's New in iMovie

• Movie Trailers In a world of boring home videos, one feature made them fun.
• All-New Audio Editing Exactly what every filmmaker dreams of. More control.
• One-Step Effects With one click, home movies are suddenly so Hollywood.
• People Finder iMovie finds the faces in your footage so you can choose your perfect cast.
• Sports and News Themes Break the story and hype your team with graphics and effects just like on TV.
• Your World Premiere Screen your movie on iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV, Facebook, and YouTube.

Movie Trailers

If you thought the movie was great, just wait until you see the trailer. Now you can make one yourself in iMovie ’11. Choose from 15 movie trailer templates in almost every genre: adventure, drama, romantic comedy, and more. Graphics and titles flash across the big (or small) screen. The legendary London Symphony Orchestra performs an epic original soundtrack. And suddenly your home video goes Hollywood. Movie trailers are easy to create. Just click your clips to drop them into the storyboard. Add character names and personalize the titles. Then iMovie works its magic. It trims your clips to fit and adds transitions, titles, and special effects. The result? A trailer tour de force.

All-New Audio Editing

Go from indie filmmaker to master sound editor with new audio editing tools in iMovie. Sound effects, voiceover, and music — you control them all. iMovie shows you detailed audio waveforms for all your clips. They’re color coded, so you can see where the audio is overpowering. To adjust the audio levels of a clip or part of a clip, just drag the volume slider. To shorten or extend fades, drag the fade edges. As you make changes, waveforms update immediately so you always see what you hear. And the new single-row view shows you your entire movie project in one horizontal row, so it’s easier to preview and edit your soundtrack.

One-Step Effects

A dog running in slow motion. A wedding ceremony sped up. Pee Wee baseball instant replays. Home videos are even more entertaining with visual effects, and you can make them happen with a click. Add jump cuts and flip effects perfectly timed to music. Transition parts of clips from color to black and white, sepia, or a dream haze. Choose a clip, choose from over 12 effects, and click to apply.

People Finder

What’s a movie without a great cast? iMovie makes it easy to find your stars without digging through all your footage. By analyzing your video for faces, People Finder identifies the parts with people in them and tells you how many are in each scene. It also finds the close-ups, medium shots, or wide angles so it's easy to grab video clips as you need them. People Finder is great to use while you make movie trailers. You can quickly find the right shots and drop them into the movie trailer storyboard.

Sports and News Themes

Today’s headlines: whatever you want them to be. Turn your video into a broadcast news segment complete with sophisticated graphics, sleek transitions, and hard-hitting titles you write yourself. The News theme is a fun way to announce a graduation or a new baby. Want to report real-life news? Share your story with CNN iReport directly from iMovie. With the Sports theme, you can turn a Pee Wee baseball game, a round of golf, or skateboarding at the park into sports video highlights. Add sports graphics and transitions. Choose from dynamic animated titles, such as game score, team face-off, and player stats. The Sports theme even includes a Sports Team Editor that seamlessly integrates your own player photos, rosters, statistics, and team logos into any Sports theme movie.

Your World Premiere

iMovie ’11 lets you view your movies in more ways and in more places. Enjoy them right in iMovie with high-resolution graphics enhanced for the Retina display on the new MacBook Pro. Export movies to iTunes and view them on your iPhone, iPad, iPod, or Apple TV. Share them with your friends on Facebook or premiere them with a YouTube or Vimeo audience. And publish newsworthy content to CNN iReport. When you export HD video at full 1080p resolution, whatever you share will stun everyone.

From apple

iMovie to Edit Your iPhone Videos

• Home for home video. 

Let the good times roll with all your video in one place.With iMovie, every video you’ve ever recorded is right in front of you, ready to roll. Grab the popcorn and enjoy the show.

• Editing for everyone. 

Making a great movie from home video is easier than you think.
In just a few clicks, you can turn your home video into your favorite film.

• Take movies further. 

Refine every cut, edit audio, and fix shaky video.
Fine-tune every cut and transition, edit color and audio, and fix shaky video. iMovie gives you the controls you need to smooth out the rough parts — and there’s nothing rough about it.

1. Instant thumbs up.
Create a dream sequence. Speed things up. Slow it down. Make your movie more exciting with 19 video effects.
2. Sounds entertaining.
Muffle your voice or give it an echo. Adding audio effects to your video or voiceover is easier than it sounds.

• Add a little Hollywood. 

Turn your video into movie trailers, TV news segments, and more.
With one click, make epic movie trailers and create beyond-amazing effects. It’s your home video’s big break.

1. Adventure? Comedy? Drama? Choose from 15 movie trailer templates. Drop your clips in the storyboard. Personalize your titles. And your home video seems straight from Hollywood.
2. A theme tour de force. To make your movies even more entertaining, add one of seven themes including Photo Album, Bulletin Board, Scrapbook, and Filmstrip.

• Now playing everywhere. 

Screen your movie online or watch it on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Apple TV.

Once you’ve finished your masterpiece, it’s time to share it. The fans, the critics, and the red carpet are ready and waiting.

A home theater premiere. Play your movie on the biggest screen in the house. With AirPlay, you can wirelessly stream your movie to your HDTV via Apple TV at up to 1080p resolution.

From apple

Top 3 iOS Video Editor

Apple’s computing infrastructure has long been aimed at the creative professional, with emphasis on photo and video editing featuring prominently in marketing material past and present. The only problem with this is that industry-leading software like Adobe Premier, After Effects and Apple’s own Final Cut series isn’t cheap. In fact, it’s very expensive. If you’re already out of pocket from purchasing a rather expensive Mac then you’ll likely want some financial relief in the form of free software. While nothing is going to match the premium might of Adobe and Apple’s in-house software, there are a few free video editing applications to sink your teeth into.
iMovie
If you’ve just bought your first Mac then you might not have realised that it already comes with a basic video editor called iMovie. This is Apple’s own software and comes as part of the iLife suite. While you won’t necessarily be cutting up the next Hollywood blockbuster using iMovie, it’s a capable video editor for small projects.
For personal use, iMovie offers an easy introduction to video editing with support for face recognition, themes, easy to use effects, a simplistic timeline view and built in sounds and animations. It will leave you hungry for more if you’re after a powerful video editing solution, but then again you’ll be hard pressed to find an easier way to bring your moving images together into one professional looking production.
Blender
At the opposite end of the spectrum in terms of user friendliness and raw power is Blender, an application usually associated with 3D modelling and compositing that’s been used in some pretty high profile productions.

We’ve written about Blender before at MakeUseOf, though with a focus on the 3D modelling aspect with only a brief mention of Blender’s potential as a non-linear video editor. The open source powerhouse might take some getting used to but with a few tutorials and some practice you’ll be surprised at what you can achieve. Here is an excellent site with a heap of tutorials for those getting started with Blender.
Kdenlive

Better known for its compatibility with Linux (of which it’s one of the better video editors), Kdenlive plays nicely on OS X thanks to the help of MacPorts. The project is very much alive, with a March 2012 donation drive exceeding expectations allowing the developer to work on the project for two solid months.

From makeuseof

Equip Your iPhone Videos with iMovie

Apple’s own home movie editing app has been around for a while now, and initial reviews weren’t too favourable. A couple of updates later, however, and iMovie seems to have improved as a basic editing tool. It’s not for everyone – if you’re making a music video, feature-length production or documentary style film you will probably want to use a desktop app. For short films and productions though, iMovie is a remarkably fast way of editing together your footage.

The ability to export your project to iMovie for Mac is awesome, allowing you to play around with footage on the go and then pick it up when you get home. There are also a plethora of effects, sound effects, musical scores and the ability to build cinematic trailers from your footage too.(from makeuseof)

Below is a video from YouTube about how to add and edit iMovie Effects with iMovie.Wathch and leran, enjoy it!

Troubleshooting: - Make sure you have NOT checked "optimize video" when importing
- If you are having trouble with the Picture in Picture, check out my response video below
- Ensure your Picture in Picture setting is not set to "fit in frame" PRIOR to inserting your
footage
- If your footage inserts transparent and looks right when you scrub through it, but doesn't play in real time in iMovie, don't worry, it will work fine after export
- The most common issue is that the footage isn't actually pre-keyed
from YouTube

iMovie Tutorial for Beginners

iMovie is a proprietary video editing software application sold by Apple Inc. for the Mac, iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. It was originally released in 1999 as a Mac OS 8 application bundled with the first FireWire-enabled consumer Mac model – the iMac DV.Since version 3, iMovie has been an OS X-only application included with the iLife suite of Macintosh applications.(from wikipedia)

What shown above is a imovie toturial from youtube for the beginners from youtube.