by adamka » Mon Nov 21, 2011 3:11 pm
Whatever you want to do on your computer there is always some sort of free software to do it. There is no need to steal software at all.
Windows Movie Maker is pretty good. WLMM not quite so much but earlier versions will run on Windows 7 and you can get them here - http://www.brothersoft.com/downloads/windows-movie-maker.html
One reason the WMM is better than some paid editors is that the effects and transitions use XML which means you can write your own or plenty of other people have written some for you. Take a look at some of the tutorials at http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/Tutorials/
If you don't want to use WMM then you've still got quite a choice...
Wax - http://www.debugmode.com/wax/ - this is also a compositor - a bit like Adobe's After Effects
Zwei-Stein - http://www.thugsatbay.com/tab/?q=zweistein - it's good but their interface is simply awful
TrakAxPC - http://www.trakax.com/software/pc/download/
VideoSpin - http://www.videospin.com/
VideoPad - the free version - http://www.nchsoftware.com/videopad/
Lightworks - http://www.lightworksbeta.com/ - I like this one
VirtualDub, RAD Video tools, AVITricks and Avidemux are also good tools you should look at. Although not full editors like the others they have some useful features.
I think that Lightworks and Wax together are a good video editing system for free. Not quite as powerful as Premiere and After Effects but still very good.