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Also from the shelves of the open source community it offers good quality video editing almost good as commercial software. It was designed for use with Unix-like OS platforms and it supports a variety of video, audio and image formats.
The codecs supported by this software is simply amazing and the screen layout offers similar functions and abilities as commercially available product.
The many open source communities are coming up with some of the most innovative editing software around using one of the most stable platforms Unix which can be considered as a predecessor of most operating systems/platforms in today’s internet age.

This DVD Authoring software is and open source DVD authoring system for the Windows platform that is released under a GNU GPL license meaning its free for anyone who may want to use it for their personal editing needs. It may not be a full fledged editing software but it does read and interpret AviSynth scripts and allows the addition of simple menus.

The software encodes dvd video using the FFmpeg standard with features such as direct streaming copy for MPEG-2 video streams making them DVD compliant. The last stable release was around a year or two ago but it does work and it allows easy dvd creation with minimal fuss.

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.