What is a good free movie aditing program like windows movie maker….but better?

Question by kj: What is a good free movie aditing program like windows movie maker….but better?
Well i love making movies for things but window movie maker doesn’t give me all i want. can someone help me out?

Best answer:

Answer by jamesmicoff
Here is a list to get you started.
Adobe Systems
Premiere Elements (Windows)
Premiere Pro (Windows, Mac OS X)
After Effects (Windows, Mac OS X)
Encore (Windows, Mac OS X)
Apple Inc.
Final Cut Express (Mac OS X)
Final Cut Pro (Mac OS X)
iMovie (Mac OS X)
ArcSoft ShowBiz (Windows)
Autodesk Discreet Smoke and Discreet Fire (Linux, IRIX)
Avid Technology
DS Nitris (Windows)
Media Composer (Windows, Mac OS X)
NewsCutter Adrenaline
Symphony Nitris (Windows, Mac OS X)
Xpress Pro (Windows, Mac OS X)
CyberLink PowerDirector (Windows)
Montage Extreme (Windows)
Edius (Windows)
FORscene (Java on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux)
Lightworks (Custom hardware)
Leitch/Harris Velocity
Media 100
HD Suite (Mac OS X)
HDe (Mac OS X)
SDe (Mac OS X)
Producer (Mac OS X)
Producer Suite (Mac OS X)
muvee Technologies autoProducer 6.0 (Windows)
Nero 8 Ultra (Windows)
Pinnacle Studio (Windows)
Roxio VideoWave and MyDVD (Windows)
Serif MoviePlus (Windows)
Sony Creative Software
Sony Vegas Movie Studio (Windows)
Sony Vegas Pro (Windows)
Ulead Systems
VideoStudio (Windows)
MediaStudio Pro (discontinued)
Video Edit Magic (Windows)
Windows Movie Maker (Windows)
Womble Multimedia
Mpeg Video Wizard (Windows)
Mpeg Video Wizard DVD (Windows)
[edit]Video encoding and conversion tools
AVS Video Converter (Windows)
Apple Compressor (Mac OS X)
GEAR Video
iCR from Snell & Wilcox (Windows)
Movavi Video Converter
Movavi Online Converter
NCH Software Prism Video Converter (Mac OS X, Windows)
Apple QuickTime Pro (Mac OS X, Windows)
Roxio Easy Media Creator
Sorenson Squeeze
Telestream Episode (Mac OS X, Windows)
Xilisoft Video Converter (Mac OS X, Windows)
Closed-Source Freeware

Non-linear video editing software
Avid Free DV (Windows, Mac OS X) – No longer available.
Clesh (Java on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux)
Pinnacle VideoSpin (Windows)
NCH Software VideoPad Video Editor (Windows)
VideoThang (Windows)
ZS4 (Cross Platform)
Video encoding and conversion tools
NCH Software Prism Video Converter (Mac OS X, Windows)
TMPGEnc (Windows)
Windows Media Encoder (Windows)
MPEG Streamclip (Windows, Mac OS X)
SUPER
Free / Open Source Software
Non-linear video editing software
Blender (3D animation suite) (cross-platform)
Cinelerra (Linux)
Jahshaka (Cross platform)
Kdenlive (Linux/FreeBSD)
Kino (Linux)
LiVES (Linux/BSD/IRIX/Mac OS X/Darwin)
Open Movie Editor (Linux)
PiTiVi (Linux)
Virtual Dub (Windows media based)
Video encoding and conversion tools
Avidemux (cross-platform)
AviSynth (Windows)
AutoGK (auto Gordian Knot)
Cuttermaran
FFmpeg
Gordian Knot
HandBrake
MediaCoder
MEncoder
MP4Box
MPEG Streamclip
Nandub
ppmtompeg MPEG-1 encoder, part of netpbm package.
RAD Game Tools Bink and Smacker
Thoggen (Linux)
TMPGEnc 4.0 Xpress (Windows)
VirtualDub (Windows)
VirtualDubMod (Windows) (based on VirtualDub, but with additional input/output formats)
SUPER (Windows) Frontend for ffmpeg, Mencoder and a few other encoders. Contains DirectShow optimizations as well.
Online software

Non-linear video editing software
Adobe Premiere Express
Kaltura

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