According to statistics, online video is exploding. YouTube serves approximately1 billion videos per day, Facebook users upload 20 million videos each month, 177 million U.S. Internet users watched video in June. What is this trend telling you? If you are selling anything online, you better start making, producing and publishing videos!
With that being said, you will need some kind of editing tools after your video is shot. Windows 7 no longer comes with native video editing capability.
Editing suites such a Final Cut Pro or Adobe Premiere can be cost prohibitive if your just starting out.
No worries. With new online video editing tools, editing your own video is becoming much easier and cheaper. All you need is your footage, a web browser, a broadband connection plus some time and imagination.
Here are some free online video editing tools you can start using today.
1) Jaycut – Edit your own videos on JayCut’s community.
2) Movie Masher – A set of Adobe Flash applets that provide front-end tools for common video editing tasks.
3) Kaltura – Open source online video platform
4) YouTube Remixer- YouTube now offers basic editing features.
These tools can get you started down the right track when you are looking at video post production work. If you need more powerful, professional grade tools, you will need to go with Adobe Premiere or Final Cut Pro (Mac).
