Best Free Tools for Creating and Editing Videos

[Armindesk]

Hello everyone,

I’m interested in learning more about video editing and creating high-quality videos. There are many free tools available for trimming clips, adding effects, adjusting audio, and converting video formats. I’d like to know which free video editing tools you recommend for beginners and which ones offer the best features.

[VWestlife]

Which questions have searching for previous threads about this topic left unanswered?

[tigerman8u]

My arsenal I have used for years
clever FFmpeg GUI, avidemux., VidCoder, tsMuxerGUI., BDRebuilder, HandBrake, VirtualDub2. I do at times use commercial software but not often.
Depending on what I want to do I choose which one to use. Some of these will do pretty much the same thing.
I do like VidCoder for encoding because it allows you to input the exported file size.
Now if "ProWo" would add that to "clever FFmpeg"

[Alwyn]

If you want to get into real video editing for free, not just recoding or chopping bits out, try a real NLE (non-linear editor) such as Kdenlive. I've never used it but it's free and gets good reviews, and looks like it has a full feature-set.

[Sharc]

@Armindesk: Once you are talking about "high quality" video processing a recommended workflow is to do some processing (for example deinterlacing, denoising, rescaling ....) in AviSynth or Vapoursynth, using it natively or via a supporting GUI, exporting it in a lossless (or quasi-lossless) format which an NLE can open, and eventually do the final artwork like color grading, cutting an splicing, adding transitions plus any other bells and whistles using the convenience of an NLE. Shotcut (free) is an alternative to Kdenlive mentioned by Alwyn.