9 Best Free Video Editing Softwares and Alternatives to Windows Movie Maker

 The built-in Windows Movie Maker in Windows provides very limited features, so that's why we may have to download another video editing software with the specific feature we need.
 Here's a list of free video editors that can be used as alternatives to Window Movie Maker, they provide many professional features and has well support for Windows OS, some of them even support Linux and Mac OS. Check them Now!

Windows Live Movie Maker

Size: 1.23MB
Os:Windows Vista / 7 (Windows XP not supported)
Features:

• Add videos and photos: Movie Maker and Windows Live Photo Gallery work together so it's easy to organize and select the photos and videos.
• Easy to edit: Add text, transitions, effects, and more.
• Share online: Post your movie to your favorite sites—including YouTube, Facebook, Windows Live SkyDrive, and many others.
  

Avidemux

Size: 10.5MB
Os: Windows 2000 / XP / Vista / 7 , Mac OS, Linux, BSD

Features:

• Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities.
  

VirtualDub

Size: 1.63MB
Os: Windows 98 / ME / NT4 / 2000 / XP / Vista / 7
VirtualDub is a video capture and processing utility licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It is designed to be a general utility that can trim and clean up video before exporting to tape or processing with another program.

Features:

• Video capture and creation: VirtualDub has digital and analog capture capabilities. It supports both DirectShow & Video for Windows capture.
• Editing:VirtualDub can be used to delete segments of a video file, append new segments, or reorder existing segments.

Pinnacle VideoSpin
Size:148.97MB
Os: Windows XP / Vista / 7
Pinnacle VideoSpin is a powerful and easy to use software application that enables you to create your very own movie clips within minutes, using your pictures and videos.
Features:

• Mix videos, photos and music together
• Add titles and transitions
• Upload to the web in a snap!

Wax

Size: 6.76MB
Os: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista.

Wax is a high performance and flexible video compositing and special effects software. The idea for Wax is to be very general purpose and flexible in video compositing and effects, so that you can compose your dream video sequence with ease everytime.

Features:

• Use graphics acceleration available with your video card for creating mind-boggling effects in realtime or near-realtime.
• Unlimited video and audio tracks with top-down compositing and many compositing modes (audio features are limited at this time).

VideoLAN Movie Creator

Size: 24.2MB
Os: Windows 2000 / XP / Vista / 7
VideoLAN Movie Creator is a non-linear editing software for video creation based on libVLC and running on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X! It is a free software distributed under the terms of the GPL v2.

X2X Free Video Trim

Size: 3.59MB
Os: Windows Vista / 7
X2X Free Video Trim is not only a video trim freeware, but also functions as video player, video cutter , video editor. It can help you cut video for free and support video playing with fast forward and backward functions.
Features:

• Totally free. Clearly safe. No spyware! No adware!
• Trim video for free, support video formats including: AVI, ASF, WMV, FLV, MOV, MP4, MPG, MPEG and 3GP.
• Support trimming a video segment to save.
• Support removing a video segment and join the other parts automatically.
• Support preview function when setting trim points.
• Keep the saved file in the same video format as the original file.
• Super trimming speed and original file quality for output files.
• Support Windows Vista and Windows 7.
  

SolveigMM AVI Trimmer

Size:5.5MB
Os: Windows XP / 2000 / 2003 / Vista / 7
SolveigMM AVI Trimmer + MKV is a free video editor for fast and lossless AVI and MKV editing. All AVI and MKV file types of any size and video / audio content are supported.
Features:

• The trimmer engine is presented by a COM object
• Supports any video content (DV, XviD, DivX, 3ivX, etc)
• Supports any audio content (MPEG-1, MPEG-2 layer 2,3, AC3, etc)
• Allows trimming AVI files contained VBR audio without synchronization loss
• Supports AVI files of the size more then 2GB
• Supports the OpenDML AVI file format extension
• Supports the native DV AVI format (both Type 1 and Type 2 in Microsoft terms)
• Performs the trimming process starting with K frame

Cinefx (previously known as Jahshaka)

Size: 26.46MB
Os: Windows XP / Vista / 7 , Mac OS X , Linux
Cinefx is an offline playback, editing, encoding, animation and visual effects tool based on the Jahshaka technology that allows you to create professional digital media on your desktop.
Features:

• Variable frame rate control
• Real-time aspect ratio control
• RGBA color channel views
• A & B media playback channels with both A/B & A