January 26th, 2011
In the hopes of bringing video editing to the masses and ordinary folks like you and me, there are a lot of video editing tools that can be downloaded for free created under the open source category. Kino is one of them, but you’d have to be running Linux or other Unix based OS’s to use it. It offers decent video editing that can be derived from DV-AVI and DV files you can import using the said software.
It also has the ability to import video from older camcorders using the IEEE1394 or other video in the same format. There is however a nasty side to open source software as we know it for being free and developed by folks form the open source community, it may have bugs that will need time to address through patches that the developers release.