Looking for free (or very cheap) video editing software

[Moley]

I've been looking at some home videos that I've made over the years. I'm thinking it's about time I had a play around with editing and titling my works of art(!) and editing out bits that should have been on 'that' DVD ;-) Anyone got suggestions for some software? Either Windows or Linux (Ubuntu). Basically I want to take bits from assorted DVDs (camcorder is a mini DVD jobbie) and add titles etc. then burn them onto another DVD and save onto my NAS. As I'm a tight arsed git preferably free or very cheap.

 

[James]

Movie maker is built in to windows 10

 

[Moley]

But not in Win7 and Win8 which is what I use.

 

[littlespark]

Moviemaker was in 7, I’m sure. Or it was part of an additional software suite, which might not be able to be downloaded from Microsoft any more

 

[Spoon]

I use Hitfilm Express for editing my daughters Youtube vids. It's free and works on Windows 8.
https://fxhome.com/support/hitfilm-express

 

[Spoon]

Also have a look at DaVinci Resolve. That is also free

 

[Jim_e_Jib]

Also have a look at DaVinci Resolve. That is also free

I'll second that - DaVinci Resolve is awesome. I use the free version at home and paid for version at work. It is incredibly powerful and the free version doesn't have any limitations for the kind of thing you're looking to do. Lots of free tutorials out there for it too.

Shotcut is another great bit of video editing software and open source.

Getting the DVDs in to both will need some more software. Handbrake is good. Make MKV also but Resolve won't read the resulting files - Shotcut will though.

 

[Moley]

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll take a look later and see what I like.

 

[MJPD29]

Looks like we have a couple of bots here, not to point any fingers.

 

[littlespark]

Looks like we have a couple of bots here, not to point any fingers.

Purged already.