Any good video editing software or programs?

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Boone

So recently I have decided that I want to make a youtube channel where I put up guitar videos, video game videos, etc with my friends. However, I do not have any good software for editing videos. I would like to do things such as put audio files over a video that was already made, adding effects, adding music, etc. Can anyone help me? Any programs or software? I would prefer them to be cheap or free, of course.

Answer
Take a look at the tutorials for Windows Movie Maker at http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/Tutorials/ - it may be WMM is all you need.

The version 2 series were probably the most versatile, you can find them here - http://www.brothersoft.com/downloads/windows-movie-maker.html

Other free video editors are...

Wax - http://www.debugmode.com/wax/ - this is also a compositor - a bit like Adobe's After Effects
VideoLAN Movie Creator - http://www.videolan.org/vlmc/
TrakAxPC - http://www.trakax.com/software/pc/
VideoSpin - http://www.videospin.com/
VideoPad - the free version - http://www.nchsoftware.com/videopad/
Lightworks - http://www.lightworksbeta.com/ - I like this one
Serif MoviePlus - http://www.serif.com/free-video-editing-software/
Ezvid - www.ezvid.com/

VirtualDub, RAD Video tools, AVITricks and Avidemux are also good tools you should look at. Although not full editors like the others they have some useful features.

Lightworks and Wax together are a very good video editing system for free.

All are safe, at least from the sites I've linked to.

There are also plenty of low cost options. http://video-editing-software-review.toptenreviews.com/ reviews 14 video editors under $100.

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