You'r brother's camera probably came with some simple
editing software, but it may not. If you can find some
with it it would probably be enough to make the kinds of
videos that you want (Usually they will let you cut the
video, add music, and do simple effects, and put it in the
order that you want)
If you get a bit more advanced, 'Virtual Dub'
(virtualdub.orgvirtualdub.orgOpen ↗) is great for editing clips (but
you will need another program to put it together.
To put it together, there is 'Zwei Stein'
(thugsatbay.comindex.htmlOpen ↗) , which is
powerfull, but I don't think that it can handle MPG, which
is what most digital cameras use. (Some of the lower end
ones use AVI, which Zwei Stein can use). Virtual Dub can
convert an MPEG into an AVI.
There are also freeware programs which can make an AVI into
an MPEG. The on that I used was AVI2MPEG, but the site seems
to be gone now. (There are at least two programs with that
name, both of them seem similar but I have only tried one)
Another video editing program is 'Wax'
(debugmode.comwaxOpen ↗). The current version is not
very stable but the new version is supposed to be out soon.
It only accepts AVI as input but it can output to MPEG,
AVI, and other things. It has some advanced built-in
effects like WARP and MORPH, and more effects should be in
the new version.
There is also a simple MPEG editing program called 'MPEG
Sissors' (newfreeware.com480Open ↗) . It lets
you put all the files in order and clip them, but you
can't add music. Its site doesn't have any information on
it anymore.
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