Best free Video Editing Software for Windows 10

Today, I will tell you about some free video editing software for the Windows 10/8/7 operating system. Most of us want freeware that we can use to easily edit our videos. Here are a few free video editors which I think are among the best.

Free Video Editing Software for Windows 10

Apart from the default Video Editor app in Windows 10, these free video editor for Windows 10/8/7 will allow you to capture, convert, edit, merge, cut, filter, convert and save all your video files:

Avidemux
VirtualDub
VideoSpin
WeVideo, Ezvid
FreeVimager
Shotcut
Video Speed Controller
Video DeShake
Windows 10 Video Editor app
Icecream Video Editor
VideoPad
Vidiot
PawEditor
Movavi Video Editor Plus.

Let us take a look at them in detail.

1] Avidemux

Avidemux is a free and open-source tool meant for simple cutting, filtering, and encoding tasks. It supports many file formats including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4, and ASF, using a variety of codecs. With Avidemux you can automate tasks using projects. It supports a job queue and a powerful scripting capability. It is a free and open-source tool meant for simple cutting, filtering, and encoding tasks. It supports many file formats including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4, and ASF, using a variety of codecs. With Avidemux you can automate tasks using projects. It supports a job queue and a powerful scripting capability.

It also supports non-linear video editing, applying visual effects to video, and transcoding video into various formats. Some of the filters are ported from MPlayer and Avisynth. It can also insert streams into a video file and extract audio streams from video files. Your all settings can be saved into a project file so that if you want it anytime, those same settings will be available for you.

Avidemux has integrated subtitle processing, both for OCR of DVD subtitles and for rendering hard subtitles. Avidemux supports numerous subtitle formats, including

MicroDVD (.SUB)
SubStation Alpha (.SSA)
Advanced SubStation Alpha (.ASS)
SubRip (.SRT).

Avidemux is a GUI program, but it can also be run from the command line mode. It has built-in support for OGM, MP4, and Matroska files, direct read input for various types of MPEG files, and numerous other video formats and containers. It also offers MPEG editing. It also has integrated subtitle control.

It shows large support for media formats, some of them are mentioned below:

AVI
ASF
WMV and WMA
FLV
MKV
MPG and MPEG
TS
MP4
NUV
OGM
MOV
3GP
BMP
JPEG
VORBIS

Avidemux is perfect if you are looking to do some simple editing and encoding of videos. It is very fast and a program with a user-friendly interface.

2] VirtualDub

It is a perfect tool for editing your videos. It is a video capturing and processing utility for the Windows platform. It has some digital and analog capturing capabilities, as it also supports both DirectShow and Video for Windows capture.

VirtualDub can be used to carry out the following tasks:

Deleting segments
Append new segments
Reorder existing segments.

In the video capturing mode, it has many features:

Capture to any AVI variant
Audio VU meters
Overlay and preview mode
Histogram
Select-able Crop Area
Video noise reduction
Support for very common but unused format that is M:Jpeg

There are many other features, which you will get to know about later when you will actually use VirtualDub. Get it here.

3] VideoSpin

Video spin is a free application meant for editing AVI and Windows Media files. VideoSpin is developed by Pinnacle Systems. With VideoSpin you can create funny, and all those awesome videos and you can directly share those with anyone.

The final product or file saved by VideoSpin is very efficient, and it works well. You can burn that file to a CD/DVD or just upload it directly to the web. It is very easy to use, and it has a good output quality. You can directly export the video to YouTube or Yahoo.

VideoSpin will let you edit AVI and Windows Media files. But if you need to create or edit videos in MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 format, you will have to buy the codecs.

UPDATE: VideoSpin is no longer free.

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Have you used any of these? Or would you like to share some other video editing freeware?