TechoCrunch

Not so long time ago videomakers would never have foreseen the possibility of editing videos online and getting good results without having to buy expensive software. However with innovation in technologies and the availability of highspeed broadband has lead to explosion of this video editing sites that allow editing of your videos within your browsers, without the need of specific software on their workstations.

Usually video editing tasks are highly sophisticated, but these sites have done a great deal in making it as easy as possible for the non experts.Most of them have great sets of editable options. Now especially because of these online video editing sites, huge video communities are thriving because it lets people to remix each others stuff, create video mashups.

Here are 5 of the best online video editing websites, I hope you like it.

Eyespot is a great online video editing and mixing website, which makes it easy to upload, organize, share videos with your friends. Great thing about Eyespot is it allows you to apply special effects, transitions and even audio dubbing to your videos. The videos can also be send to your mobile phone videos to your account via MMS. It also lets you embed videos to any webpages. Max video upload limit is  at 100mb which i think is enough for a 20 minute video.

Link: http://eyespot.com/

Jumpcut is another cool online video editing and remixing website that lets you edit your videos, create slideshows and post them on any webpage. You can add transitions, titles, effects, and audio dubbing. Besides that it has a cool dragging and dropping feature for arranging content in your movie. Just like Eyespot it has a max file upload limit of 100mb.

Link: http://www.jumpcut.com/

Youtube is commonly known as the best video uploading site and how on earth it didn’t had a video editing tool! But now they do have one, “YouTube Remixer” is a new service that allows users to edit their videos from within YouTube itself. Besides the usual stuffs it got some decent effects, transitions and captions. But mind it, Remixer will only work on videos upload by yourself, you can remix others videos.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/

Photobucket is already a well know player in the photo uploading ,editing catergioes and its video editing capability isn’t lame either. It lets you edit your videos using Flash and lets you remix your photos, home videos with cool effects, video captions, transitions and other things. Images and videos can be directly linked from Photobucket to any site. It also lets you store, share and publish your video stuffs. Max 10 minutes per video and few special features are only available for premium users.

Link: http://photobucket.com/

VideoEgg is a video editing platform that lets you create a social network and offers opportunities for monetization. You can take any file format, from anywhere (hard drive, web cam, camcorder, etc.) drag it into the editing platform and then create a movie besides that you can edit it, while adding effects, making slide shows, create mash-ups, etc- all from withen your browser.

Link: http://www.videoegg.com/

I’m sure i have missed on couple of them, but these are just few of my frequently used video editing websites. Thou i ain’t avid video buff, i still manage to do a decent job with my home videos. Tell me your story and share your opinion.

Pranjal