Windows Movie Maker Alternatives for Linux

Alternatives to Windows Movie Maker for Linux with any license

OpenShot

Our Features Cross-Platform OpenShot is a cross-platform video editor, with support for Linux, Mac, and Windows. Get started and download our installer today. Trim & Slice Quickly trim down your videos, and find those perfect moments. OpenShot has many easy ways to cut your video. Animation & Keyframes Using our powerful animation framework, you can fade, slide, bounce, and animate anything in your video project.
- Easy to use and sufficient functionality. Guest • Sep 2018 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees
- Free, relatively easy to get started, lots of instruction videos online. Guest • May 2018 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees
- It's a good app, but it's a little laggy... and it's lack of subtitles... Besides that, the app is great. Guest • Jul 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
- OpenShot has advanced features that makes it even better than Windows Live Movie Maker. Guest • May 2018
- Ease of use, number of effects and transitions, and general UI. Guest • Jul 2017 • 3 agrees and 4 disagrees
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Chroma Key / Green Screen Ad-free Animations Cutting ... Fast motion No Watermark Non linear editor Edit screenshots Specific for 64-Bit Track multiple packages Add a feature

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Kdenlive

Kdenlive is an intuitive and powerful multi-track video editor compatible most recent video technologies. It is completely free, and open-source as defined by the GNU foundation.
- Really simple, with a very similar layout to Windows Movie Maker! Guest • Apr 2017 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees
- Its every YT MSpaint/PdN-ers dream, 0$ charge WMM with even more features and more notably. Composites and layers. For other people its still pretty good. Guest • Apr 2017 • 0 agrees and 3 disagrees
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD KDE
Keyframe animation Ad-free Chroma Key / Green Screen Engagement analytics ... Glitchy effect Support for MOV files Multiple timelines Non linear editor One click battery optimizer Realtime filter effects Specific for 64-Bit Visual Editing Add a feature

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Avidemux

Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting.
- Avidemux is great for cutting or joining videos, but it not a full editor fulviocorno • Mar 2017 • 9 agrees and 4 disagrees
- Can't stitch together multiple videos in Avidemux Guest • Jul 2015 • 10 agrees and 9 disagrees
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com
Sync Audio & Video Blur Filter Chroma Key / Green Screen Embed subtitles into video ... Frame by frame Photo effects Portable Text on videos Unlimited music Visual Editing Zoom integration Add a feature

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Shotcut

Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform, non-linear video editor. Supports hundreds of audio and video formats and codecs thanks to FFmpeg. No import required which means native editing, plus multi-format timelines, resolutions and frame-rates within a project. Frame accurate seeking supported for many video formats. Blackmagic Design SDI and HDMI for input and preview monitoring. Screen, webcam and audio capture. Network stream playback.
- Movie maker is a much more simplified product and allows easy recording of narration and much easier timeline editing. While this would work for some scenarios it cannot be used to the same extent as Windows Movie Maker. Guest • Aug 2015 • 4 agrees and 2 disagrees
- It's free and more complete than movie maker Radzel • Mar 2017 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees
- Movie maker was brilliant at taking film stills and stop motion frames in and outputting a video. SHotcuts "says" it does this, even on the forum - "tick the properties box and it will import the rest of your folder of stills..." It fails every time. Out of 45 frames, it only ever imports 5 maximum whereas Moviemaker just did the job. Guest • Mar 2018
- It can actually do everything Movie Maker does. The problem is the UI is not very intuitive and you need to watch a Youtube tutorial and take notes so you don't forget it. But once you figure it out the workflow is really fast. It also works with all sorts of formats including MP4. Guest • Nov 2017 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Keyframe animation Non linear editor Video filters Visual timeline ... Chroma Key / Green Screen Cutting Do not disturb mode Drag n drop HTML5 Support Lightweight Low CPU usage Multitrack editing No Watermark Portable Normalize Volume Add a feature

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DaVinci Resolve

Complete suite for editing, color correction and professional audio post production, all in a single application. Originally designed for Hollywood’s elite colorists, DaVinci Resolve has been used on more feature films and TV shows than anything else because it lets you create images that are simply impossible with other tools.
- The free version contains everything you need for editing movies. Sure, the free version can't edit 4K and only has "limited" (I have never found these limits) functionality but if all you need is cutting video from your holiday it is perfect. Also, the learning curve is not that steep. Theagurg • Mar 2017 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees
- Professional Software For Free. Easy Workflow. Best Color Grading. Easy To Learn. Premier Pro & Final Cut Pro are the only editors that compare, but they are costly. Guest • Apr 2017
Freemium $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux
Color correction Colour grading Advanced Trimming Built-in editor ... Chroma Key / Green Screen Color correction Colour grading Controller support Facial recognition Hardware Accelerated Keyframe animation Multi-Screen Multicam Editing Multitrack editing Node Based Non linear editor Stabilizing Subtitles and captions Support for VST plugins Add a feature

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Lightworks

Lightworks is an editing powerhouse, delivering unparalleled speed and flexibility, fully integrated with the other members of the Complete Collaboration family. Lightworks is an Academy and Emmy award-winning professional-grade video editor with over 20 years of history in the film and broadcast industry.
- It's VERY COMPLICATED, they changed the interface and added a whole lot of jargon. So maybe it's a good program, but someone like me who's made hundreds of Windows Movie Maker videos over the years and wants that same 'look', will not want to use Lightworks, priced or no. Guest • Jun 2015 • 10 agrees and 2 disagrees
Freemium Mac Windows Linux
Chroma Key / Green Screen Color correction Non linear editor Capture Video Add a feature

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PiTiVi

PiTiVi is an open source non-linear video editor, written in Python and based on GStreamer and GTK+. Taking into account the fact that not everybody has the same knowledge of video editing, nor the same needs, PiTIVi provides several ways of creating and modifying a timeline. Ranging from a simple synopsis view (a-la iMovie) to the full-blown editing view (aka Complex View) which puts you in complete control of your editing.

Free Open Source Linux BSD
Non linear editor Capture Video Add a feature

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Cinelerra

Cinelerra is a highly advanced and professional non-linear video editing software, but still remains open source. Cinelerra solves three main tasks: capturing, editing and compositing. There is virtually no limit to the video resolution so whether its standard or High Definition (HD) doesn't really matter in Cinelerra.

Free Open Source Linux
Non linear editor Add a feature

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Flowblade

Flowblade is a multitrack non-linear video editor for Linux released under GPL 3 license. Flowblade is designed to provide a fast, precise and robust editing experience. Flowblade employs a film-style insert editing model as workflow. In insert editing clips are generally placed tightly after other clips when they are inserted on the timeline. Edits are fine tuned by trimming in and out points of clips or by cutting and deleting parts of clips.

Free Open Source Linux
Color correction Non linear editor Add a feature

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Vidiot

Vidiot is a video editor targeted for plain home video editing. A user-friendly video editor that can be handled by any type of user, enabling them to easily and quickly create movie sequences and home videos Vidiot is an intuitive video editing application especially designed for the home user, enabling you to easily create video timelines.

Free Open Source Windows Linux
Non linear editor Add a feature

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LiVES

LiVES is a Video Editing System. It is designed to be simple to use, yet powerful. It is small in size, yet it has many advanced features. LiVES mixes realtime video performance and non-linear editing in one application. It will let you start editing and making video right away, without having to worry about formats, frame sizes, or framerates.

Free Open Source Linux
No features added Add a feature

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ffDiaporama

ffDiaporama is an application of creation of videos sequences established by - titles, fixed or livened up. - images or by photos, fixed or livened up. - movie clip - music These sequences are assembled in slide show by means of transitions of sequence to produce complete videos
- Discontinued The project is no longer developed since 2014 but the program is still downloadable and working
- This program makes it very difficult to edit frames and delete them. You would have to be a professional to understand how the program works inside and out. Guest • Sep 2016
Free Open Source Windows Linux
Multiple languages Add a feature

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Lumiera

Lumiera is NonLinear Video Editing (NLE) for GNU/Linux developed by the CinelerraCV community. It was born as a rewrite of the Cinelerra codebase called Cinelerra3 but it is now an independent project with its own name.

Free Open Source Linux
Non linear editor Add a feature

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Auteur

The Auteur Non-Linear Editor is a professional-grade but user-friendly video editor for Gnu, Linux, BSD, and other Unix and Unix-like systems. Curently it is still in alpha release, but a few of its features are: Codec Agnosticism. Built upon the famous MPlayer and Mencoder programs, Auteur doesn't care what kind of media you or your clients bring to the cutting room. Mpeg4, Windows Media, h.264, Theora, Webm, 3gp -- with Auteur, you can edit it no matter what. Speed.

Free Open Source Linux
Non linear editor Add a feature

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Make Web Video

Create advanced video presentations easily. MakeWebVideo.com helps people create professional quality video presentations easily, fast and affordable. It's the only video service of its kind in the world. We have brought to the mainstream, the ability to make videos based on professional templates, without the assistance of video professionals nor expensive video editing software.

Commercial Mac Windows Linux Web
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ZS4 Video Editor

ZS4 Video Editor, the new incarnation of Zwei-Stein Video Editor, is advanced video editing and compositing software with over 150 built-in video effects.
- Discontinued Inactive development since 2007.
Free Mac Windows Linux
Non linear editor Add a feature

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Piranha

Complete your pipeline with the one app that will let you finish it all on time. Piranha 8 is a high performance end to end editing and finishing solution for film and video professionals. Edit, composite, retouch, color grade and output using Piranha's lightning fast GPU architecture.

Commercial Mac Windows Linux
Non linear editor Add a feature

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Vivia

Vivia is a video editing program for Linux and Windows that offers very user-friendly editing of DV video material. Vivia is Free Software with a GPL license.
- Discontinued Project is labeled "inactive" on Sourceforge.
Free Open Source Windows Linux
No features added Add a feature

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