The rise of YouTube and other popular video sharing sites have ensured that video editing doesn’t remain a super-geeky thing. Don’t be surprised if you catch your 9 year old sprucing up the video of her puppy using a video editing tool before uploading it to YouTube. With the kind of free video editing software available at your disposal now, it’s not at all difficult to edit and create great videos.

The following list talks about 8 such tools that can help you edit, add affects and do much more with your videos. Both desktop software and online tools are included. Check them out.

UPDATE: We’ve added a bonus tool in the end. Don’t miss that!

Windows Live Movie Maker

Windows Live Movie Maker – that comes as a part of Windows Live Essentials suite – is a powerful and feature-rich video editing software by Microsoft. You can edit videos, audio, add all kinds of effects, add photos directly from Windows Live Photo Gallery and do much more. There’s also an interesting feature called the AutoMovie theme that lets you quickly choose photos and videos and then automatically create a movie out of them in no time.

VideoToolBox

VideoToolBox is a pretty impressive online video editing tool that’s free. It can accept video file up to 600 MB in size and has a range of features to cater to all your video editing needs. It also has a video recorder tool. We’ve covered it here – VideoToolBox: Online Video Editor to Convert, Crop, Merge & Split Video Files.

iMovie

iMovie is Apple’s flagship movie making software that comes bundled with the iLife suite for Macs. It has an impressive array of features including People finder, a feature that can find faces in the video. You can also create quick trailers of your videos with iMovie.

Wax

Wax is an advanced video editing tool that can add 2D and 3D effects to your videos apart from doing various other kinds of video editing tasks. It is Windows only, and also comes as a plugin to popular (and costly) video editing software like Sony Vegas Pro and Adobe Premiere. So, if you are a professional user, you too could make use of this tool.

Source: www.guidingtech.com