Sometimes you may need to create or edit a video yourself, for a far-away friend or important event. Anyway, it is not advisable to pay for a professional video editor program in these cases. So are there any freeware to edit videos free? This guide introduces 5 best free video editor tools, enabling you to trip video size, add extra captions/background music/3D effects, and do other editing operations.

5 best free video editors

1. Windows Movie Maker

Windows Movie Maker is known as one of the best free video editors in the video editing field. As a product of Microsoft, Windows Movie Maker is also identified as the top free windows video editor, which comes with Windows Vista by default (Movie Maker 6.0) and can be installed on Windows 7, Windows 8 as well as Windows Server. By using Windows Movie Maker, users can create and edit videos free. In addition, users are able to upload created videos to YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, Flickr and other video-sharing sites.

Windows Movie Maker enables users to create videos based on pictures, add music from local drive and save in various output formats (the default output format is H.264). Windows 8 users will even receive exclusive hardware accelerated video stabilization provided by Windows Movie Maker.

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2. Wax

Developed by Debugmode, Wax is another free video editor software for PC and has attracted raving reviews from the market. The current version v2.0 has been greatly improved, providing features including scene editing, black bar removal, rotation, fades, color (3D) effects, audio effects, etc.

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3. Aura Video Editor

Aura Video Editor is a professional and free video editing software with rich features included. As a simple video editor, Aura Video Editor enables users to edit images, transitions, subtitles and background audios in two models. Apart from that, it can also be used as a versatile video converter and slideshow maker.

Aura Video Editor supports more than 30 video and audio formats such as 3GP, AVI, DAT, DIVX, FLV and MP3, WMA, OGG, etc. Output videos created by Aura Video Editor can be played on iPad, iPhone, iPod, iRiver, Sony, Blackberry and other smart devices.

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4. Avidemux

Avidemux is a good & free video editor suitable for those who are looking for an easy-to-use video editor. Unlike the three freeware mentioned above, Avidemux can be installed on Windows, Linux, BSD, and Mac OS X (under the GNU GPL License) instead of pure PC OS.

Similarly, there are a lot of video formats supported by Avidemux: AVI, ASF, WMV, WMA, FLV, MPEG, MPG, MP4, TS, NUV, OGM, MOV, 3GP, etc. Primary features offered by Avidemux: video cutting, filtering (visual effects), audio inserting/extracting, format converting and encoding.

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5. Movica

Movica is a Windows-based free video editor coming with a user-friednly interface. Movica shows its advantages when dealing with WMV, FLV, RM, MPEG videos while it also well supports regular AVI files.

Movica enables users to select, delete, cut, copy, paste, merge and split video clips & files. By using the given shortcuts, users will be able to edit videos more easily.

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Tips: If you just want to do some simple video editings and want to change the format of your videos, imElfin Video Converter will be a better choice. Imelfin Video Converter not only offers some useful editing functions like trimming, cropping, adding water, etc., but also allows you to convert videos from one format to another (158 formats supported).

Refer to this list for more free video editting software.