Microsoft Movie Maker

It's no need to find additional applications when you intend to edit your video on a PC before uploading it to YouTube, etc. Windows Movie Maker is included in Windows XP/Vista for video creating/editing, while Windows Live Movie Maker - a complete rewrite of the Windows Movie Maker application - is available for Windows 7 (Window Vista as well).

Windows Movie Maker features effects, transitions, titles/credits, audio track, timeline narration, and Auto Movie and more while Windows Live Movie Maker features AutoMovie themes, transitions, visual effects, and text for title, captions and credits, online sharing, etc. With Windows Movie Maker, you can create great-looking videos, automated photo albums and business presentations while the latter enables to transform images, audio files, and short clips into full-blown movies, edit and share your videos, and more. But No matter which program you use, you can easily edit your video with a simple and intuitive GUI interface. No user guide is required.

Avid FreeDV

Avid FreeDV is free audio and video editing tool that has includes basic video and audio editing capabilities, plus 6 real-time effects. The bad is that it's limited to two video tracks and two audio tracks maximum. This free video editor is available for both Windows and Mac, but it's a pity that the development of Avid Free DV has been discontinued by its publisher. Even so, you can still have it a try. It's often regarded as a useful tool for students or other users who want to start their design with a tool similar to those used by professionals.

VirtualDub

VirtualDub is a video capture and processing utility that is professionally designed to process linear video streams, plus filtering and recompression. It can work for both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows7/Vista/XP/2000. As a tool streamlined for fast linear operations over video, this program lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor.

VirtualDub supports all AVI files, but appropriate video and audio codecs are required to be installed. In addition, it can also can read (not write) MPEG-1 and handle sets of BMP images. This program features batch-processing that allows you to process large numbers of files and canbe extended with third-party video filters.