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Simple program to cut videos without ANY loss of quality for Windows, Linux or Android

I would suggest using the command line and ffmpeg as in: ffmpeg -ss start_time -i input_file .ext -t duration -vcodec copy -acodec copy output_file .ext .ext must be a supported video type and the ...
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Merging multiple MP4 video

VLC media player can convert and merge video files. Steps: Select File > Open Muliple Files Add the required files by clicking the add button From the dropdown menu below choose convert. Select ...
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Simple program to cut videos without ANY loss of quality for Windows, Linux or Android

What you're looking for is AviDemux. AviDemux is an open-source GUI video processing software made in Linux which also has releases for Windows (x86 and x64), it also has a command-line version ...
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Simple Video Editor for Windows

I would check out Filmora by WonderShare. It has a lot of features and still easy to use. It is able to run on Windows 7 and runs quickly for what it does. It can crop videos, mesh them together, and ...
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Freeware video editing software

A very powerful one DaVinci Resolve Free edition. This one needs a modern graphics card. A really interesting option is HitFilm express. It is not only an editor but also a compositor. Avid is also ...
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Video Editor for Windows?

Blender is a free and open-source 3D editing and includes a fully featured video editor. Note: Blender doesn't have the best learning curve, and might be a little difficult to use in the beginning, ...
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Software to make Photo Video maker with music?

You can do exactly this sort of thing with FFMPEG, (and much more of course), I recently used it to generate a slide show of shots for part of a video of a friends funeral to send to the other side of ...
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A portable, free and simple video editor

That software exists, and better yet, it's open source: AviDemux It can cut MP4 files losslessly (hence very fast). It can also apply filters such a resize or rotation and recompress using a variety ...
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Video editor able to merge files

The easy answer is FFMPEG: Concatenate Video files of the same type, Yes and can convert types to produce a single file from multiple types, plus you can extract sections of the input files to ...
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Video editing plugin for Audacity or stand alone program

One of the less often mentioned facilities in the Blender 3D Modelling, Animation and Rendering toolkit is the Video Editor which also has an Audio Track Editor. While it is not as powerful a sound ...
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Free Video maker that can animate pictures

You can do both in Blender - it has a bit of a learning curve but: Insert Image into video by using the video as the texture for one object and move moving another - Yes in 3D Demo of Video texture ...
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Looking for a software to shrink 12 hour long video to 5 minutes video

You should be able to use ffmpeg for this with the framestep filter. Free Cross Platform Supports most video types
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Simple program to cut videos without ANY loss of quality for Windows, Linux or Android

I would like to complete the other answers by referring this solution of mine on another thread that seems to solve the audio sync and beginning of frames frozen issues for ffmpeg : The key frame ...
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Want a free video joiner for Windows

I suggest taking a look at FFMPEG: Free, Open Source Cross Platform - but you will need to find an older build to run on XP, recent builds should be fine on Win7 and later. Supports just about every ...
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Video stabilizer software for Linux

Blender from blender.org and the software is free. Blender exist for windows,mac,linux numerous tutorials exists tutorial 1 google search blender video stabilization There are a number of steps, ...
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Video stabilizer software for Linux

Hands-free Linux method, with transcode's stabilizer filter. A crude wrapper function, (Bourne shell, bash, etc.): # Usage: shakeless foo.avi # eventually outputs stable_foo.avi unset slow # export ...
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Merging multiple MP4 video

You can do this task by using any-video-converter The program is pretty straight forward and you don't need any special tutorial for merging videos.If you face any difficulties, take a look at This ...
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Library for programmatic video manipulation

The most used tool/library for video manipulation is FFMPEG - It can read, slice, dice & write just about every video format that is out there and it is free, gratis & open source and cross ...
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Software to condense video down to a few minutes by merging moving objects and static background?

One open source solution that will require a little effort on your part would be to use OpenCV, if you don't wish to use a C++ compiler and all the fun and games that involves I suggest that you use ...
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Software for video trimming and/or mkv to mp4 converting without any quality loss

I would just use FFMPEG: Free, Gratis & Open Source Cross Platform - Runs on just about everything Cut & join mkv without loss of quality, just supply the start time(s) and duration for each ...
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Is there a tool to produce gif from screen recording for windows

ShareX is in my opinion the best tool to do this out there. It will capture screenshots, video, GIFs upload them automatically to your favorite service and much more. On top of that it's free and ...
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Video editor that works from plain-text files

AviSynth seems to be the tool that directly answers your needs on Windows. This is a completely script-based editing approach, with quite powerful instruments (built-in or as plug-ins) for reading, ...
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Video Editor for Windows?

DaVinci Resolve is a free fully fledged video editor that does most of the things on your list apart from transcoding and GIFs. Additionally, using it as a slideshow maker would be tedious and not ...
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Edit video file while retaining the original format

VideoReDo TV Suite should do what you want, it's useful for trimming/splitting video files (you can also remove ads in your videos). With VideoReDo's perfected smart rendering technology you can ...
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Simple Video Editor for Windows

A really great software is Blender. It is mainly a 3d animation software but it has also a built-in video sequencer. It may be a bit complicated first but when you become use to it, it is a really ...
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Video editing software that allows side-by-side frame editing

The video editor built into Blender 3D modelling toolkit can do exactly this as can be seen in this instructional video. It can also: Split screen and picture in picture videos "Green Screen" to ...
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A portable, free and simple video editor

VirtualDub can also open MP4 files with the FFMpeg Input Plugin. It's small, fast, and open source. Saving as MP4 is more complicated.
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Chroma Key - Removing Video Green Screen - Free Software

The free version of Lightworks is a video editor that enables you to (amongst other things): perform a chroma key on a clip (in other words: "it removes the green screen"), export the result with a ...
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Video editor that is free for commercial use

If you are comfortable on the command line, ffmpeg is a powerful tool that can do many different things, including crop. https://ffmpeg.org To crop using this tool you will craft a dos-shell command ...
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Simple lossless video editor for Windows with MP4 support

I made a graphical tool that uses ffmpeg to let you losslessly trim videos by selecting the start and end points on the timeline: https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut It is open source and cross ...
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