# Need a recomendation for a good AVI editor

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-recomendation-for-a-good-avi-editor/157730>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 26, 2003, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-recomendation-for-a-good-avi-editor/157730 "2003-02-26T21:03:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![BioHazard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3bc359/32.png) [@BioHazard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BioHazard)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-recomendation-for-a-good-avi-editor/157730/1 "2003-02-26T21:03:42Z")

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Can some please recommend to me a good AVI editor? All I really need to do is to be able to cut AVIs into smaller pieces, and perhaps convert the compression level.

A free editor would be the best, but if there is a REALLY good one for sale I would consider it.

One more thing, it needs to be able to work with the DIVX format.\*

\*Note to the mods, although DIVX is used for illegal movies, I am using it for film that I own the copyright for, this has nothing to do with any illegal activities

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**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-recomendation-for-a-good-avi-editor/157730/2 "2003-02-26T21:09:11Z")

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[VirtualDub](http://www.virtualdub.org/) will probably do what you want. It’s free and works with DivX.

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**Author:** ![Read\_Neck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@Read\_Neck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Read_Neck)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-recomendation-for-a-good-avi-editor/157730/3 "2003-02-26T21:12:04Z")

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Don’t know about DIVX but Virtual Dub is a pretty good freeby for Windows. Linux has several but I haven’t gotten around to them yet.

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-recomendation-for-a-good-avi-editor/157730/4 "2003-02-26T21:23:35Z")

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I don’t know if you had to put that disclaimer about DivX. I use it all the time, for my own movies for my website. It’s a very good compressor, and used on the 'net for a heck of a lot more than just illegal ripping.

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**Author:** ![Armilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e19b73/32.png) [@Armilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Armilla)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-recomendation-for-a-good-avi-editor/157730/5 "2003-02-26T22:02:04Z")

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VirtualDub is a very good tool. You might also want to look at [MovieXone](http://www.aistinc.com/products/moviexone.asp) which is also free.