When we want to create a personal video, burn a DVD, or upload to YouTube/other video-sharing sites, we will need free video editing software to crop, edit subtitles, insert audio, and add other effects. So what is the best free video editing software? What is the easiest video editing software to use? This post covers a list of the best video editing software, you will be able to edit your videos free on Windows, Mac or Linux.

10 best free video editing software review and download

1. ezvid free video editing software

ezvid is open-source video editing software applicable to Windows XP (SP3), Vista, Win 7/8. It is fast, easy-to-use and functional. Besides video editing, it can also be used as a voice recorder and screen recorder. As with video editing, ezvid enables you to resize, add text/images. Powerful functions along with the revolutionary screen drawing feature have made ezvid one of the best video editing freeware.

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2. Windows Movie Maker

Windows Movie Maker offers a simple solution to beginners to create or edit videos. You can drag and drop images, videos as well as the real-time screenshots/videos to the timeline and add titles, credits, video/transition effects as you like. Windows Movie Maker comes with Vista and Win7 by default and is auto installed with XP SP2.

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3. Kate's Video Toolkit

Kate's Video Toolkit is a versatile free video editing software for Windows with a lof of formats supported: AVI, WMV, MOV, DIVX, ASF, 3GP, MP4, etc. It empowers users to extrat/convert portions, change frame size/ratio, customize video/audo compression codec, add 3D transitions/effects, and the like.

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4. Avidemux

Avidemux is one of the top video editing freeware enabling users to edit, convert and encode videos. When it comes to video editing, Avidemux is light and easy-to-use with cutting, filtering and encoding supported. As a complete toolkit, it is also able to deal with AVI, MPEG, MP4 and ASF. What's more, Avidemux is rarely free video editing software supported by PC and Mac.

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5. VSDC Free Video Editor

VSDC Free Video Editor is both a good free video creator and editor. Video editing effects provided by VSDC include color correction, transitions and object transformation. Together with general video formats, VSDC Free Video Editor also supports photo and audio formats: supported photo formats are BMP, PNG, JPG, PSD, ICO, TIFF; supported audio formats are WAV, MP3, WMA, FLAC, PCM, OGG, M4A, AAC, AMR.

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6. MPEG2VCR

MPEG2VCR is a basic video editing freeware focused on MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 streams. Unlike other all-in-one tools, MPEG2VCR appears low-key or even a bit rough in the interface. But it loads and scrubs movies very quickly and efficiently, showing excellent operating experience. It is likely to be the first choice if you simply want an easy-to-use and fast video editing program.

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7. Free Video Dub

Similar to MPEG2VCR, Free Video Dub is also an easy-to-use and fast free video editing tool without re-coding. It lets users to delete unwanted parts from video clips and generate new files very quickly. Besides MPEG 1, MPEG 2 and MP4, it also supports AVI, MOV, M4V, FLV (including DivX and XviD), etc.

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8. Audio to Video Mixer

Audio to Video Mixer is free video editing software used for audio and video process with most popular audio/video formats supported. The key features of Audio to Video Mixer include audio & video mixing, audio extracting (from videos), audio inserting (to videos) and removing (from videos).

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9. Freemake Video Converter

Freemake Video Converter is a nice yet simple freeware to edit and convert video files. Under the well-organized interface, users are able to find out how to get started with the program quickly. The provided editing features are limited to cutting and transform. Relatively speaking, it's a better video converter than video editor. Mainstream multi-medea formats such as AVI, MP4, WMV, 3GP, DVD, MP3 are well accepted. It also offers a direct way to upload newly generated files to YouTube.

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10. VirtualDub

Licensed under General Public License (GPL), VirtualDub is a free video editing program good at linear video process. It is primarily used to trim and clean up videos, and shows terrific performance when dealing with AVI files. By installing third-party video filter tools, people can also use the batch-processing features provided by VirtualDub.

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