Video Editing Software - Halp

[Edward_Elric_1308]

I like making videos, but all I have to use to make them with is Windows Movie Maker for my Windows XP.

I would like to have a good software that would let you do things like reverse the video and other effects WMM doesn't have, such as audio editing.

My friend has Pinnacle Studio (dunno which version) and I saw the videos he has made using that and they are amazing. An analogy would be that it's like Photoshop to MS Paint.

So I pirated it from www.thepiratebay.org and tried it out. Seems cool, full of potential, but I didn't know what I was doing so I uninstalled it.

Does anyone know any good video-editing software besides WMM that I could download or pirate for free, that is easy to learn, and is not a trial version? If you posts links to where I can download some software, make sure that it doesn't come with a virus or adware.

[cstdenis]

VirtualDub is very good, but it's only of limited usefulness.
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