Enjoying Your Free Windows Video Editing Software
Video editing software bundles are costly. The price of these suites range from $900 to as high $1100. This is a significant investment especially for beginners and non-professionals who just want to create home videos as a hobby. Before you embark on a major investment, why not try the free stuff? The Windows video editing software, Movie Maker, is absolutely free and if you are running on windows XP service pack 2 operating system, chances are you have it now on your computer. It comes bundled in the installation of your operating system, and it offers great features for the neophyte video editor.
The windows Movie Maker program has the same basic functionality of professional video editing software. The software has the ability to capture videos and convert it into separate 5 to 10 second clips that will be available for editing in your project area or workspace. You can also import graphics file and videos from your computer or from separate device. However, the limitation of the software is its inability to capture and import videos created in different formats. Only WMV and MPEG file format are allowed by the software to upload in its work area. Video files created in Quicktime or those formatted in SVCDs are not readable by the system. Once you finished uploading your video file, the windows editing software will arrange it to separate clips that you can drag and drop into the timeline or storyboard. The timeline can include clips from video, audio, and graphic text for the title overlay. Once you have chosen what clips to include in your time line, you can render transition effects to the timeline or add some basic visual effects to your clips. Movie Maker offers this basic feature that you can find in most high-priced software bundle. The windows video-editing software also allows you to edit the clips by splitting, cropping and cutting it to suit your editing taste. You can also make stylized text for your title and credits creation and drag and drop it into the title overlay part of your timeline. Inserting audio is also easy. Just import audio files, specifically WAV format to avoid conflict, and simply drag and drop it to the audio part of the timeline.
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When youve finished arranging your clips in the timeline and integrating special effects feature, you can preview your movie in the player screen which is right beside your work area. When you are satisfied with your creation, you can save your work of art in your computer or burn it to a CD. You can also send your movie via email or directly publish it to the web or just simply send it back to your DV camera.
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