Video editing programs?

[Emily]

I'm looking for a program that I can edit videos with.
The main thing I want to do with the videos are put them in slow motion so I can view some of the dance moves in slow motion, does anyone have a site I can go to, to download an editing program that'll let me put my videos in slow mo'?

[Chris Stratton]

You didn't say what computer platform or video format you are working with, but for avi files on windows you could try virtualdub

www.virtualdub.org

select video-frame rate from the menu and change it some fraction of what it was

[Emily]

Sorry about that, I have Windows XP and I'm mostly working with mpgs and avi's.

Thanks for the link :)

[Larinda McRaven]

Windows XP comes standard with Windows Movie Maker. There are several easy effects that you can apply to your clips.

[Chris Stratton]

Windows XP comes standard with Windows Movie Maker. There are several easy effects that you can apply to your clips.

One of the problems with windows movie maker is that it prefers to save your projects as wmv files. This can mean quality losses from recompression if you started out with a different compressed format, but more problematically ASF/WMV is a proprietary format, and microsoft tends to threaten anyone who creates a program that can work with it. For example, if you try to open a wmv file in virtualdub, it will say something to the effect of how that used to work, until Microsoft forced them to disable it.