Editing videos

[Ozzy]

My camera records videos in .mov to playback with quicktime. The only way I can figure out to edit videos is to buy the premium version of Quicktime. Is there a program I can download for free that I can use to edit videos? Or can I change the format that my camera records in?

 

[Not a Number]

If you're just doing basic edits like cutting stuff out VirtualDub works ok but only on AVI files out of the "box". Pasting together videos from different sources gets a lot more complicated. There are modified versions of VirtualDub for MPEG files as well as various plug-ins for MPEG and WMV files.

You can convert Quicktime files to AVI with MOV 2 AVI (freeware):

http://www.download.com/Free-MOV-2-AVI-Converter/3000-2194_4-10758642.html

I haven't tried any other freeware editors.