Looking for a basic, free, video editor

[granturissimus]

All I need to do is add music to the source video or a photo. Windows Live Movie Maker does not give good video quality results, and Windows Movie Maker can't save at higher bitrates, nor can I open mp4 YouTube videos on it, so I need something else. I need to save videos at 720 and 1080 resolutions.

On the other hand, is there a way to get Windows Movie Maker to open mp4 and various other type of video files and edit them?

[Baldrick]

You can use an encoder to do that, like virtualdub, open video or image, under audio->external source load your audio.


If you want more editing features like video and photo transitions you wont find much good free stuff.

[granturissimus]

Is there a way to make virtualdub play more filetypes? I tried opening a YouTube mp4 file and mpeg-ts files, and it says those files are not supported.

[davexnet]

Perhaps try the FFInput and/or the directshow input plugins.

[Ai Haibara]

Or frameserve the video into VirtualDub using AVISynth.

[deadrats]

the best legally free video editing software probably is avidemux.

[granturissimus]

the best legally free video editing software probably is avidemux.

Thanks for telling me about this program! I used it to make a video already.