Top 3 Free Movie Editing Software for Mac/Windows PC

With the rise of smart phones and social network, more and more people love to shoot videos for recording the beautiful moments and edit the videos into fancy movies so as to share them through the Internet. Most of them are only fans of movie editing and not willing to spend large amounts of money for a professional movie editing software such as Adobe Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro.

It's hard to look for a movie editing app which is really good especially for Mac and Windows PC users because Apple has been aimed at the creative professional software that are usually paid version. Is there any free movie editing software for Mac and Windows PC users which can offer both basic video editing features and some extra enhancements? Of course the answer is yes, this top movie editing software for Mac and Windows PC listed below are sure to meet all your movie editing needs.

# 1 MovieMator Video Editor for Mac and Windows PC


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Mac OS X 10.10 +

Windows 10/8/7, 64-bit

MovieMator Video Editor is the best and full-featured movie editing software for Mac and Windows PC users. Different with other limited movie editing software, it provides users with not only the basic movie editing tools but also some extra enhancements like unlimited tracks and numbers of supported video formats.

MovieMator is equipped with lots of movie editing tool such as trim / crop fragments, cut footage into parts, delete unnecessary clips, rotate the frame, adjust the volume, import favorite music, add various filters / transitions and many more. Also, this movie editing software for Mac and Windows PC enables users to make slideshow and realize picture-to-picture effect. When it comes to movie editing, your creativity is the only limit.


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Excellent features of this movie editing software for Mac OS X and Windows PC

  • - Support 4k video editing which can be captured with iPhone
  • - Accept over 160 kinds of video, music and image formats.
  • - Trim / rotate / crop / merge / split videos and add / text.
  • - A lot of filters, titles and transitions.
  • - Interesting picture-to-picture effect makes your movie special.

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#2 iMovie for Mac

Although we can not download iMovie for Mac as a stand-alone movie editing software from Appstore, I think it is a free video editor because it comes with every new Mac OS X 10.8 or later and Mac users are able to use this movie editing software without any extra cost. iMovie for Mac offers all basic movie editing features such as trim, merge, add effects, transitions, movie trailer and etc. It is very easy to add video / music files to iMovie. In addition, users are capable of exporting / sharing movies to other device and Internet simply. Nevertheless, even through iMovie for Mac is powered with numbers of movie editing features, the interface is less intuitive than other Mac movie editing software. In a word, iMovie for Mac is one of the best free movie editing software for Mac OS X.

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#3 Avidemux

Avidemux is a free movie editing software designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks, which supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities. Integrated a user-friendly interface, this movie editing software Mac is suitable for beginners in video editing. There is no need to study a mass of tutorials, even you have no experience in movie editing, you can edit the video files without obstacles. However, Avidemux is only a basic movie editing software that is not carried with any extra enhancement.


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Mac OS X 10.10 +

Windows 10/8/7, 64-bit

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