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Top 5 Free Video Editing Software for Windows

Wanna customize the videos and share them online, and are looking for the best free video editor software? When you are searching the software, you may find it is so difficult to find such good programs among too many free video editing programs. In this article, we will introduce you top five best free video editting programs for Windows.

• Part 1: Choose the Right Video Editing Software for Windows
• Part 2: Detailed Information for Different Free Windows Video Editors

Part 1: Choose the Right Video Editing Software

	Any Video Converter Free	Windows Movie Maker	ZS4 Video Editor	Movica	Wax
Supported input formats	AVI, FLV, MPG, MP4, M4V, M2V, SWF, 3GP, 3G2, 3GPP, MOV, TS, TP, TRP, M2TS, MTS, MKV, DV, WMV, MOD, TOD, ASF, DAT, F4V, VOB, RM, RMVB, DivX, XviD, MXF, H.261, H.263, H.264, NUT, NC, NSV and more.	ASF, AVI, DVR-MS, M1V, MP2, MP2V, MPE, MPEG, MPG, MPV2, WM, WMV	AVI, WAV, Image Files	WAV, ASF. MPG. MPEG. AVI. FLV. WMA. MP3. RM	AVI, WAV, all popular image formats
Supported Output File Formats	WMV, MPG, H.264/MPEG-4, DivX, XviD, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, AVI, 3GP, 3G2, FLV, F4V, SWF, DV, VOB, HTML5 WebM/MP4/OGV Theora, DVD NTSC, DVD PAL;MP3, OGG, WAV, AAC, WMA, AIFF, CAF, AMR, RA, AU, MP2, AC3, M4R, M4A, FLAC; PNG, GIF (Animation)	Windows Media Video (WMV) or DV AVI	AVI, WMV, WAV, Jpg, Png, Bmp	WMV, FLV and MPG Files	AVI, MPEG, WAV, Flash, all popular image formats
User-friendly	✔	✔	✔	✔
Basic editing functions like crop, trim, rotate, join, etc	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Video effects like transitions, intro/credit, sound effects, etc	✔		✔		✔
Upload the editing video to YouTube or Facebook	✔
Burn your video to a DVD collection	✔

Part 2: Detailed Information for Free Video Editors

Top One: Any Video Converter Free

As a free videos editor for Windows, Any Video Converter Free does a pretty job in editing videos, which allows you to free trim any video files into several clips , merge multiple media files into one to make your own video, cut off unwanted borders from a video frame to feature a favorite clip, rotate to bring the action to put a new angle on the action, customize brightness, contrast, saturation, resolution to get the best effect, add subtitle, add watermark, etc.

Download videos and music from YouTube and 100+ sites in batch
Record & capture video screen with high output quality
Enjoy High Efficiency Video Coding/H.265 Video
Burn any video to blank DVD disc to create DVD
Edit video clips with cut, crop, and special effects
Support NVIDIA NVENC Transcoding Acceleration

Learn more about Any Video Converter >>

Top Two: Windows Movie Maker

Windows Movie Maker is a free video editing software for Windows, which features all the essential functions we now come to expect from any basic editing software, you are allowed to combine video, images, and audio using a drag-and-drop method. In addition, new effects and transitions can be added and existing ones can be modified using XML code.

Add videos and photos
Support adding and editing audio, movies
Full-screen preview and high-definition webcam capture
Combine video, images, and audio files
Add themes and effects to videos like a breeze
Be capable of creating fresh videos

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Top Three: ZS4 Video Editor

ZS4 Video Editor is another great free video editing and compositing software with more than 150 built-in video effects including excellent color and chroma keying tools, distortion effects, color adjusters, pattern generating effects and so on.

Restrict the processing of contained video effects by shape or blending logic
Matrix operations: edge detect, blur, key smoother
Full automation control for all track and effect variables using keyframes
Color adjusters: adjust hue, saturation and lightness, adjust RGBA, adjust YUV and tint
Manipulate the flow of time, forward, backward, speed up and slow down smoothly

Learn more about ZS4 Video Editor >>

Top Four: Movica

Movica is also an awesome video editor that uses these fine programs to edit movie files. The keyboard shortcuts make video editing easier than ever.

Select or delete multiple portions from a video file
Copy, paste and fine tune the selections
Join multiple files together
Split movies into smaller files
Save and play selected scene without editing the movies

Learn more about Movica >>

Top Five: Wax

As a high performance and flexible video compositing and special effects software. Wax is a good choice for both home users and professionals, with which you can compose your dream video sequence with ease every time.

create 2D & 3D special effects and can work in two modes
Use graphics acceleration available with your video card for creating mind-boggling effects in realtime or near-realtime
Unlimited video and audio tracks with top-down compositing and many compositing modes