Avidemux is great software designed for people who are interested in video editing but cannot afford expensive video editing products such as Adobe or Pinnacle Studio. Windows movie maker is free, but it has limited functionality and the editing options are very basic. Avidemux is an open source video editor designed for cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It support many file types such as, DVD, AVI, MPEG, MP4 and ASF. It also support and works on Linux, BSD, Mac, OS X and Microsoft Windows environment.

This is not only a video editor software, it’s also a convector. You can convert your input videos to DVD or to other file types. You can also extract the sound from the movie or the video, and save it on your hard drive easily. You may have heard a nice song in a video on youtube and you want to download it, Avidemux will do the job for you.

Get the latest copy of Avidemux here, and learn how to use the features here