# Need very basic movie editing that can do mov/mjpeg/h264

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**Created:** [June 15, 2011, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-very-basic-movie-editing-that-can-do-mov-mjpeg-h264/585545 "2011-06-15T09:02:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-very-basic-movie-editing-that-can-do-mov-mjpeg-h264/585545/1 "2011-06-15T09:02:35Z")

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I need a very basic video editor, it only needs to do simple stuff like crop out certain segments of video and stitch them together, like for a highlight reel for example, maybe with some transitions between the scenes. And that’s it. Windows movie maker is adequate for my purposes. Except it can’t read mov/mjpeg/m264. Are there any free or very cheap options for basic video editing with those formats?

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**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-very-basic-movie-editing-that-can-do-mov-mjpeg-h264/585545/2 "2011-06-15T09:20:08Z")

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[Avidemux](http://avidemux.sourceforge.net/) is your friend.

Simple to use, reasonably powerful, free.