FREE Video Editing Tools

Jaycut is a great web based editor. It is one of the older web based editors but since it started out as a school project in Sweden it has not gotten the press like others. That said - it is good, easy to use and you can download/export your videos for use wherever you want!

Photobucket is the premier site on the Internet for uploading, sharing, linking and finding photos, videos and graphics. Your free Photobucket account can store thousands of photos and hours of video. This is you best option if you don't want to download software. Photobucket offers:

* Sharing of photos, videos, and albums by email, IM, and mobile phone. Friends and family don't need an account on Photobucket to see your stuff. They just need to click the link you give them. So stop emailing photo attachments around, and start sharing with Photobucket.
* Group albums, to let you collaborate together with friends and families in a single group album of photos and videos.
* Hundreds of album themes to design and personalize your photo and video albums.
* A built-in organizer, to keep your photos and videos organized neatly into albums.
* A built-in full featured photo editor, that lets you fix photos, as well as edit them in unique ways with frames, stickers, and special effects.
* Built-in searching to find the latest and best photos, images and videos to suit your mood, or entertain your friends in Photobucket's huge online library.
* A scrapbook builder to build online and printed scrapbooks by simply dragging and dropping into one of hundreds of pre-built scrapbook designs that you can share online or print into beautiful books.
* A slideshow builder with lots of fun styles for posting and sharing on your Web site, blog or profile.
* A remix builder, for putting together photos, videos and music for posting and sharing on your Web site, blog or profile.

• Application Type: Web Based
  
• Operating System: Web based so it will work on any computer
  
• Cost: Free, registration required
  

Pixorial is a web service which lets you upload, edit, store and organize personal home videos online. Your video library can be password-protected and you can edit your videos right inside the browser. It comes with both free and paid options, the free option being a decent one with 10GB limit on the uploads.

Creating a movie from your digital videos has never been easier. VideoPad is a full featured, professional, video editing application which allows you create movie projects from various video clips or a single video file.

This video editing application allows you to import various file formats including .avi, .wmv, .3gp, .wmv, .divx and many others and then apply effects, cut frames, add captions, voice-overs and soundtracks and more.

Motionbox makes it easy for you to share your videos with friends, family, or anyone you like. Unlike personal broadcast sites, it's a personal video service that gives you a safe, friendly, private place to share your personal memories in vivid HD quality.

* Video storage (premium service is unlimited)
* Easy-to-use online editing tools
* Large file uploads (premium service is unlimited)
* HD player and full-screen playback.(premium only)
* High quality downloads to a computer or iPod.
* DVDs and Flipbooks of your videos

• Application Type: Web Based
  
• Operating System: Web based so it will work on any computer
  
• Cost: Free for limited number videos, registration required
  
• Premium Service: Sometimes folks have a lot of video they want to store safely or they don't want to be limited by the size of the video they can upload. Premium membership gives you both of these, plus the highest-quality playback in HD and download capabilities for you and your friends.
  

Prism is a free video converter for Windows and Mac. It can convert video files from avi, wmv, 3gp and more into avi, asf, wmv, mp4, 3gp and others. It can also convert DVD discs to your hard drive or compress video files to reduce size.

Use this video converter software to convert video files into the formats you need to watch on TV, load to a cell phone, put on a website, create a presentation, watch on your portable device and much more. In fact, the possibilities are endless using this powerful video file converter.

Prism will convert between the following video formats:avi, mpeg, wmv, 3gp, divX,mpeg1, mpeg2, mpeg4, mp4, mov, asf, vob,

ZS4 Video Editor, the new incarnation of Zwei-Stein Video Editor, is advanced video editing and compositing software with over 150 built-in video effects. ZS4 runs on Windows, Linux and OSX and is free to download and use. Great tool - but not for beginners.

• Application Type: Software Download; ZS4 runs on Windows, Linux and OSX
  
• Cost: Free
  

Wax is a high performance and flexible free video editing software program. It started out as a college project, and has since grown. Wax is good for both home users and professionals but it is not for beginners. It can be used as a stand-alone application, or as a plug-in to other video editors.

• Application Type: Software Download; limited to Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
  
• Cost: Free