10 Best Microsoft Video Editors to Edit Videos on Windows

If you often upload videos to social networks, you may need a video editor to beautify your videos. What are the best video editors for Windows? In this post, I’ve compiled a list of 10 best Microsoft video editors across the web.

Here is a concise comparison table of these Microsoft video editors.

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#1. Microsoft Photos Legacy

Windows Movie Maker is no longer available on Windows. How do you edit videos on Windows? Don’t worry, Windows 10 has a hidden video editor – Microsoft Photos Legacy. It doesn’t have many advanced features, but it’s packed with all the basic editing options, such as split, trim, merge, rotate, flip, mute, add text, apply filter, add music, change video speed, and apply motion effect (like zoom in, zoom out).

This Microsoft video editor also has a built-in music library with over 50 free audio tracks and allows you to synchronize your video to the beat of a music track.

This native video editor has a simple interface and is easy to use, which is best suited for beginners.

To find this hidden video editor, just tap on the search icon in the taskbar and enter “video editor” in the search box. Then open the video editor to get started.

Features

• Free and easy to use.
• Supports most commonly used audio formats.
• Comes with basic editing features.
• Offers 3D effects.
• Saves any video in MP4 format.

#2. MiniTool MovieMaker

If you prefer to edit a video in timeline mode, not storyboard mode, MiniTool MovieMaker might be the best alternative to Microsoft Photos. It supports almost all popular video, image, and audio formats and has an intuitive interface where you can easily edit and create videos.

This video editing software provides essential editing features. You can easily trim, split, crop, rotate, and merge video clips and enhance your footage with a wide range of filters, effects, transitions, text, and elements. With the multi-track timeline, you can easily make picture-in-picture effects and video collages. This Microsoft video editor is suitable for users without much editing experience. 

Features

• Free with no viruses, ads, watermarks, and bundles.
• Edit 4K videos smoothly.
• Rich text templates and many are animated.
• Comes with a suite of video editing tools.
• Customizable output settings, such as format, resolution, frame rate, and bitrate.
• Exports videos in 1080P or 4K for free.

MovieMaker by MiniTool is an inexpensive, easy-to-use video editing program. It includes a fair number of effects and gives you easy ways to join your clips, add transitions, and overlay objects and text.https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/minitool-moviemaker

#3. VSDC Free Video Editor

VSDC Free Video Editor is a non-linear editing software for Windows, allowing to create and editing high-resolution videos. It supports the most commonly used video and audio coding formats and can make them compatible with various mobile devices.

This free Microsoft video editor provides both basic and advanced editing features, which is perfect for beginners as well as professionals. The DeLogo filter can blur unwanted parts in a video. The color correction feature can adjust contrast, brightness, and temperature. The mask tool enables you to apply a filter to a specific object in a video.

If you want to access all the advanced features, you should buy VSDC Video Editor Pro.

Features

• Free to use.
• Offers advanced features for post-production such as motion tracking, mask tool, Chroma key, and Face Landmarks.
• Screen recorder and voice recorder are provided.
• Supports 3D to 2D conversion and 360-degree video to 2D video conversion.
• Includes more than 70 transition effects.

VSDC includes separate tools for screen recording, video capture, voice recording, and disc burning, as well as a converter tool with a large selection of output options for popular devices and online uses.https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/vsdc-video-editor-pro

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#4. Shotcut

Shotcut is a free and open-source video editing tool with hundreds of audio and video formats support, available on Windows, Linux and Mac operating systems. It supports multi-format timelines and frame-accurate seeking for many formats. Other powerful functions are webcam capture, audio capture, network stream playback, tone generator, etc.

Shotcut can also help accomplish some basic editing tasks such as detaching audio from video, trimming video, and fade in/ fade out audio.

It has a complex interface and requires video editing skills to create videos.

Features

• Free, open-source, cross-platform.
• Supports 4K resolution.
• Allows importing videos, audio files and images.
• Offers various video and audio filters.
• Plays videos from websites.
• Supports MLT, XML files.
• Provides UI translations like English, Chinese, French, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, and more.

User friendliness doesn’t exactly spring to mind when thinking of Shotcut, but everything you need to cut a video is there, and it shouldn’t take you long to get to grips with the interface.https://www.techradar.com/reviews/shotcut-2203

#5. OpenShot

OpenShot is a lightweight yet powerful video editor for Windows, macOS and Linux. It’s free and open-source. More importantly, it’s easy to learn due to its simple and clean user interface. As an open-source video editor, it has all the needed editing features that a video editor should have. It lets you add overlays to video, delete background from video, invert colors, visualize audio file, add slow effect to video, etc.

Based on FFmpeg, this free Microsoft video editor can edit most video formats. With OpenShot, you can create all kinds of videos quickly without losing quality.

Features

• Free, open-source with a large number of formats support.
• Support creating layers without limitations.
• Comes with basic and advanced editing functions.
• Offers 3D animated titles to enhance your video.
• Drag and drop videos from file manager into OpenShot.
• Available in over 70 languages.

It’s one to consider if you’re creating personal projects, perhaps like a video compilation from a holiday or for a celebration of some kind, especially if you don't have much experience with editing tools.https://www.creativebloq.com/reviews/openshot

#6. HitFilm Express

HitFilm Express is a video editor compatible with Windows. Except for basic editing features, it gives you the options to enhance your video visuals with specialized effects, composite 3D models, etc., which helps you make a professional-looking video.

The best part of this Microsoft video editor is the Particle Simulator that enables you to create weather systems and more. This free video editor is perfect for novices, YouTube content creators, film students, etc.

Features

• Free to use.
• Supports compositing 2D and 3D elements.
• Offers over 410 effects and presets.
• Enables you to add tracks and transitions without limitations.
• Comes with a voice recorder.

HitFilm, the video editing software from FXhome, is a powerful application for video editing, layering, and motion graphics.https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/hitfilm

#7. DaVinci Resolve

DaVinci Resolve is an all-in-one software for Windows and other operating systems. It’s a professional non-linear editor for video editing, color correction, visual effects, motion graphics and audio post-production. The traditional workflow makes it easy for novices to learn.

It supports video formats like AVI, MP4, QuickTime, DNxHD and XAVC, MXF, audio formats like AAC, AIFF, WAVE, image formats like RAW, TIFF, JPEG, DPX, OpenEXR, etc.

DaVinci Resolve has been used in films such as Avatar, La La Land, and Love & Mercy, television shows such as The Big Bang Theory, The Flash, Orphan Black, The Walking Dead and more.

Features

• Supports Multicam editing, automatic trimming, fast proxy editing, and more.
• Offers hundreds of titles, transitions, and effects.
• Supports creating 3D particle systems, animated titles, photorealistic composites and so on.
• Allows you to add up to 2000 audio tracks at a time.
• Lets you quickly upload videos to YouTube, Vimeo and Twitter.

The free version of DaVinci Resolve is popular among YouTubers and gamers because it provides a substantial subset of the program's editing features at no cost. The free version is surprisingly robust, offering standard editing and cutting, effects, motion graphics, color correction, and audio editing.https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/davinci-resolve

#8. Lightworks

Lightworks is another non-linear editing software for editing videos. It’s a cross-platform video editor for Windows, macOS and Linux. Compared with other non-linear editors, Lightworks has a simple and intuitive interface that makes it easier for users to create videos. The free version of Lightworks offers a limited number of features, but it’s enough for beginners.

Features

• Supports importing all formats.
• Supports advanced Multicam editing, second monitor output, etc.
• Provides a library of effects and royalty-free stock videos.
• Can export videos to YouTube and Vimeo.

Lightworks has a pleasing interface and lays everything out clearly. You should be able to adjust quickly to it if you have used any other video editing software.https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/lightworks

#9. Adobe Premiere

Adobe Premiere is the world’s most popular Windows video editor, which is widely used to produce commercials, movies, television shows, and more. It can manipulate all common video editing tasks and complicate video editing tasks. Whether you’re a professional or amateur video editor, Adobe Premiere Pro can help you get the job done.

Aside from that, it works seamlessly with After Effects, Premiere Rush, Photoshop and other apps. That is to say, projects in these apps can be opened and edited in Premiere Pro.

Features

• Supports any format.
• Packed with all the necessary tools for video editing.
• Offers amazing effects, transitions, and titles.
• Automatically detect original edit points.
• Provides you with a set of color grading and color correction tools.

Premiere has an attractive, flexible interface, and I'm a fan of Adobe's simplifying changes over the years. The startup view helps you quickly get to recent projects, start new projects, or search for Adobe Stock footage.https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/adobe-premiere-pro

#10. Corel VideoStudio

Corel VideoStudio is a robust Microsoft video editor. With Corel VideoStudio, you can edit videos with basic editing tools like video cropper, video splitter, video rotator, and video trimmer, and enrich your videos with hundreds of effects, filters, transitions, and stickers.

The instant project templates help you create a video in just a few clicks.

Features

• Comes with essential tools for video editing.
• Supports Multicam editing, and 360-degree video editing.
• Gives you the options to fine-tune the color in videos and record video & audio.
• Makes your video impressive with various effects, filters, overlays, graphics and stickers.
• Features fast/ slow motion, stop motion, pan and zoom, painting creator, motion tracking and custom motion paths.

Corel VideoStudio is a feature-packed and intuitive consumer video editing program with fun ways to create stop motion, edit faces, make GIFs, generate speech-to-text captions, and more.https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/corel-videostudio-ultimate

Conclusion

All the Microsoft video editors have their benefits and downsides. After reading this post, hope you can find a video editor that suits you best! Before downloading the video editing software, please make sure that your computer meets its system requirements.

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