Inexpensive video editing software

[cosine]

I need some software to do some basic video editing (sound, rotate picture, edit length of video clip, maybe rudimentary adjustment of color and balance) and would like it to be inexpensive, say $20-$25 dollars. File types I will be using are .wmv, and .mov (Quicktime).

What do you recommend?

[Marnoot]

Hard to beat Microsoft's Movie Maker 2 for price (free). You can download it via Windows Update. I'm not 100% sure it'll handle/import .mov files though, you might need another program for that.

[cosine]

Hard to beat Microsoft's Movie Maker 2 for price (free). You can download it via Windows Update. I'm not 100% sure it'll handle/import .mov files though, you might need another program for that.

Yup, you do. I already have Movie Maker, at least I need to be able to convert the .mov files to .wmv. So right now Movie Maker's worthless to me, because most of the files I'm working with are .mov.

[Hazzard]

I have no experience with this software, but found it with google pretty quickly. It's freeware.

http://www.bluechillies.com/details/38727.html

Says it will convert .mov to .wmv. Hope it helps.

[Sergeant Bob]

You might check out Majorgeeks.com. They have a lot of free software and shareware for download so you could try out programs till you find what you need.

[Chuck Dye]

Check the downloads section of the Kim Komando web site www.komando.com

http://www.komando.com/downloads/categories.aspx?cat=Pictures%20and%20Video

Komando has a call in radio show that runs live from 0700-1000 Pacific time.  If you can crack the busy signal over the next 2 or 3 weeks and have your question deemed worthy by the call screener, you will be given a serious gift for your troubles, generally a solution to your question worth several hundred dollars.  Good luck!

[Harold Tuttle]

compared to QT, wmv is a vastly inferior movie file.

i would look at Premiere elements
http://www.adobe.com/products/premiereel/

[caseydog]

Do your edits with Windows Movie Maker (provided you have XP) and then recode it into whatever wrapper you want with Super.  Both free  , hows that for low cost ? Super is just a transcoder , no editing capabilities at all.

http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

Ray

[cosine]

Thanks for the help. I found a transcoder, converted the files, and got them edited. For free! 

Thanks again.

[Vodka7]

I've used SUPER before, and while I prefer ditching the front end and just using ffmpeg myself, it does a nice, quick job.