Popular free video editors comparision table
This is a tutorial that explains the process of editing videos on a PC using Windows Movie Maker and editing videos on Mac using iMovie. This tutorial will be a concise explanation of how to editing videos for free. Then share your movie via the Web, e-mail, or CD. Using DVD burner you can even take movies you've made and turn movies into DVDs. You can also save your movie back to the video tape in your camera to play back on a TV or on the camera itself.
This tutorial includes 3 parts, this is part 3:
- Part 1. Using Windows Movie Maker to edit videos on PC for free
- Part 2. Using iMovie to edit videos on Mac for free
- Part 3. A table that compares free video editors
The following table compares general and technical information for a number of video editors on Mac, windows and other OS.
| Name | OS |
Features |
Input Formats |
Output Formats |
iMovie |
Mac OS X |
edit the video clips, add titles, and add music. Effects include basic color correction and video enhancement tools, and transitions such as fade-in, fade-out, and slides. |
non-tape based HD or non-HD video cameras such as DVD camcorders HDD camcorders, & AVCHD, 3GP, AVI, DAT, MOV, MP4,MPG |
MOV, Disc, CD-ROM, |
HyperEngine-AV |
Mac OS X |
Multimedia authoring software for capturing, editing, organizing, processing, and exporting video, audio, and text to create DVD quality movies and slide shows. |
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Avidemux |
Linux, |
videmux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities. |
AVI, OpenDML ASF Flash Video Images (BMP, JPEG, PNG) |
AVI (single or dual audio tracks) Flash Video Images (BMP, JPEG) Matroska (Beta) MP4 MPEG (VCD/SVCD/DVD compatible & separate) OGM |
Blender |
Windows, Mac OS Linux, |
You can use it for modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging, water simulations, skinning, animating, rendering, particle and other simulations, non-linear editing, compositing, and creating interactive 3D applications |
Support format: |
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Windows Movie Maker |
Windows |
effects, transitions, titles/credits, audio track, timeline narration, and Auto Movie |
audio: .aif, .aifc, .aiff .asf, .au, .mp2, .MP3, .mpa, .snd, .wav and .wma |
Windows Media formats or DV AVI |
Virtual Dub |
Windows |
Filters, Editing, create a video file from a series of bitmaps or targas, Video capture |
Avi |
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Wax |
Windows |
graphics acceleration, |
AVI, WAV, all popular image formats. |
AVI, MPEG, WAV, Flash, all popular image formats. |
ZS4 |
Windows, Mac OS Linux |
1. Unlimited* number of audio, video and picture. |
iyuv/i420, yv12 and yuv9 AVI, mJPG AVI, mpng AVI, wav, JPG, png, BMP aif, snd, ico, cur, gif pnm, pbm, pgm, ppm, xpm, xbm |
i420/iyuv-AVI, motion-JPG AVI, motion-png AVI, wav |
Zwei-Stein |
Windows |
Zwei-Stein 3.01 is a freeware non-linear, non-destructive video compositing and editing system which offers many advanced features unavailable elsewhere. With Zwei-Stein you 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. |
Input Media compatible with Internet Explorer 4.0 (*.AVI,*.wav,*.JPG,*.gif,*.png etc...) |
AVI 1.0, RealVideo? RealAudio?, Windows Media Format (*.WMV), WAV, and BMP. |
Aviedit |
It is a great tool to work with .AVI files. Regardless of small executable size, this AVI editor offers unlimited power of digital video processing. Some high-tech tricks included into AVIedit allows you to perform with ease and fun the many interesting things, like video warping, color restore, noise reduction and so on |
BMP, JPEG, PNG and TARGA files , MP3, Autodesk FLI/FLC, |
AVI movie |
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Kdenlive |
Linux |
capture footage from digital camcorders using the raw1394 and dv1394 libraries, and export to camcorders using the ieee1394 or video1394 libraries. |
Support format: |
