Movie Maker Free Video Editor

Pros

• Truly free program with many different features to edit video, add music and apply themes
• Simple interface makes it easy to find and use all the tools
• Accessible to beginners even if you never edited video before

Cons

• Program sometimes crashes but this is uncommon

Movie Maker Free Video Editor is an intuitive and feature-rich video editor that is completely free. This comes with many tools for editing videos that you can upload online or burn to a disc. There are also included themes and filters to make your videos more aesthetically pleasing.

Many Features

Despite being free, you'll find that Movie Maker has a very large number of features that is perfectly suited to basic video editing. While this isn't a professional program used for TV shows and feature-length movies, this would be ideal for online videos and those interested in learning more about video editing.

Some of the basic features include the ability to cut, edit, rearrange and splice separate video clips. You can easily trim existing clips and move them around until your movie looks perfect. There are numerous transition effects to go from one scene to the next. You'll find that this program come with many filters and effects like making everything sepia, changing the color balance and more. This gives your movie some polish and puts you in control of the presentation. You can even change the orientation of clips.

One useful feature that amateur video editors might enjoy is video themes. These are colors, fonts and effects that cohesively go together. This makes it much easier to make your video look professional and you can edit the themes to make them work with your video. There are stickers you can add to the video to make it look better or to insert messages that viewers can read. Adding music is simple and you can move the music around, adjust the volume and make other edits so that it works well with the video.

Easy Uploading and Multiple Formats

This program makes it simple to upload your videos to streaming sites and social media outlets. You can choose to have the video immediately uploaded by simply inserting your account information and selecting which website to upload the video to. You can also save the video on your hard drive to upload it later or to do more work with it. You may burn the video directly to a disc from this program to place it on a DVD, CD or Blue-ray if you would prefer.

This program is compatible with most video file formats like MP4 and MOV. Not only can it work with these files, but you can easily export your video in multiple different formats. While MP4 is the most common format used, you can choose from several different formats as well.

Free Program

This program is completely free. Many free programs have a hidden cost. This could be reduced features unless you pay for the premium version, only allowing a certain number of edits, disabling output formats and other sneaky ways of forcing you to pay for the premium version of the program. None of that is done here. This program is completely free and you get all the features without paying a penny.

You can pay for additional themes and that can be worth it if you like how they look. Themes give your video a cohesive look and a certain emotional weight that can be difficult to achieve manually. This is completely up to you and you are never forced to buy a theme if you don't want to.

There is a paid version of the program and it does have a few advantages. While you have access to all the features whether you use the free or premium version, the premium version removes all the advertisements and any watermarks added to your video. Videos made with this program will have a watermark unless you pay to have it removed.

While there are premium video editors with more features, there are few truly free video editors that include this many features without a scheme for making you pay more.

Simple Interface

Movie Maker is aimed at newer users with little video editing experience. This program is incredibly easy to use even if you've never tried video editing before. You'll have no problem adding video clips and music, moving clips around and using all the other tools. Every tool is simple to find and the interface ensures that you can effectively edit the video until it is perfect.

While it's aimed at newer users, even experienced users may like this program for its straightforward interface. It might lack some of the features found with professional video editors, but when it comes to simple editing this program is unmatched. If you only need to do some basic editing, then this interface makes it all very easy.

Unexpected Crashes

This can be a frustrating problem that happens most often with larger videos. Sometimes the program will crash unexpectedly and all your unsaved changes will be erased. While the program makes it easy to save any changes, there is a chance that your last few edits won't be saved and you'll have to do them again.

You shouldn't expect this to happen often, but it can be frustrating when it does. Just remember to save often and you should be just fine.

Add Subtitles

This program can automatically add subtitles to your video. This is ideal if you're trying to reach a larger audience. It's a good idea to read through the subtitles just to make sure they are accurate. There is a chance that a word here or there is incorrect. You will have no problem manually fixing this.

Pros

• Truly free program with many different features to edit video, add music and apply themes
• Simple interface makes it easy to find and use all the tools
• Accessible to beginners even if you never edited video before

Cons

• Program sometimes crashes but this is uncommon