see: Videography for video creation and editing methods and techniques
see: Office Tools: Converters for format conversion tools
Online Video Editors
see also : Audio Editors -- Video Slideshows -- Videography
- Masher free
"Masher lets you easily create a video by mixing together video clips, music tracks, and photos all for FREE!" - Video Toolbox free
Convert, merge, and edit videos of up to 300 MB online with a variety of tools. - Xtranormal free
Animations tool. "Our revolutionary approach to movie-making builds on an almost universally held skill—typing. You type something; we turn it into a movie. On the web and on the desktop." - WeVideo free
"With WeVideo, you simply upload your video clips and photos, create your storylines, and edit them in the cloud." (Free and paid versions.) - YouTube: TestTube free
TestTube is where new YouTube applications come from. Among the offerings there are video editing, video annotating, and video captioning tools.
Online Animation Editors
- aniboom free
"Cross-media, cross-platform animation content project" and home of the free online Shapeshifter animation tool. - Devolver Movie Maker free
For making quick and easy cartoons online. - Doink free
"DoInk is a place to enjoy art and animation, and make your own. Have a great idea, but can't draw? No problem. Are you an amazing artist, and want to share your talent with the world? We love you." - GoAnimate free/pay
"An entertainment website that enables the simple creation of unique computer animated stories, satires and sentiments that can be shared with the entire online community." Basic features are free; premium features may be paid for as needed.
Desktop Video Editors
These programs all need to be downloaded (or purchased) and installed. However, they work much faster and generally with higher quality than web-based editors.- Adobe Premiere Pro $$$; Mac, Win
"Capture, edit, and deliver video online, on air, on disc, or on device." - Aviademux free; multi-platform
"Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF..." and conversion from one format to another. - Avid Media Composer $$$$$; Mac, Win
"Unsurpassed creative tools, rock-solid media management, and the highest quality effects and output." - AVS Video Editor $
"Create your videos in an easiest way. AVS Video Editor is first of all intended for those who are new to video editing." Win - Camtasia Studio $$$; Mac, Win
"Turn screen recordings into polished videos that train, teach, sell and more." - CinePaint free; Linux
"CinePaint is used for motion picture frame-by-frame retouching, dirt removal, wire rig removal, render repair, background plates, and painting 3D model textures." - Debut free; Win
Video and screen capture program. - DivX free
Create and burn DivX DVDs. Win - DVD Shrink free; Win
Compress and backup DVD files. - Final Cut Pro $$$$; Mac
"High-performance digital nonlinear editing, native support for virtually any video format, and facility-class extensibility and interoperability." - iMovie $; Mac
Video editor for Mac computers; purchasable separately or as part of the iLife bundle. - MPEG Streamclip free; Win/Mac
"A powerful high-quality video converter, player, editor for MPEG, QuickTime, transport streams, iPod. And now it is a DivX editor and encoding machine, and even a movie downloader." - OpenShot Video Editor free; Linux
Powerful free video editor with user-friendly interface. - Pinnacle VideoSpin free; Win
A nice user-friendly video creator. - PiTiVi free; Linux
"A free, intuitive and featureful movie editor for the Linux desktop." - Sony Vegas Pro $$; Win
"Professional HD video editing, audio editing, and DVD authoring software." - Video Pad free/$; Win
"This full featured video editor lets you create professional looking videos with transitions, music and narration in just minutes." Available in free and 'pro' versions. - VS4 Video Editor free; multi-platform
"Advanced video editing and compositing software with over 150 built-in video effects." - Wax free; Win
"Wax is a high performance and flexible video compositing and special effects software." - Windows Movie Maker free; Win
Microsoft video editor that comes with Windows XP SP2 and following versions of Windows.
Desktop Animation Editors
- Animata free; Mac, Win
"Animata is an open source real-time animation software, designed to create animations, interactive background projections for concerts, theatre and dance performances." - Blender free; multi-platform
"Free open source 3D content creation suite [animation program], available for all major operating systems." - Movie Storm free; Mac, Win
"The complete package for creating animated movies - easy to use for novices and fully-featured for advanced moviemakers." Can buy additional features. - Pencil free; multi-platform
"An animation/drawing software... [which] lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoons) using both bitmap and vector graphics." - Synfig free; multi-platform
"Synfig is a powerful, industrial-strength vector-based open-source 2D animation software package, designed from the ground-up for producing feature-film quality animation with fewer people and resources." - Stykz free; multiplatform
"A powerful, easy to learn tool for creating great looking stick figure animations quickly and efficiently."