Gadgetell | Tech News, Reviews, and Interesting Things

Videospin is a free video editing application from Pinnacle that helps you build movies for places like YouTube.  Rated extremely high by PC World (and I quote, “VideoStudio is head and shoulders better than any other free video application I’ve seen”) back in February, Videospin is back with a new website to help us newbies get headed in the right direction.  The site features how-tos, user-made examples and access to basic info and faqs.

This is a good free video download to grab.  Yes, the full suite is attractive and gives you tons more options, but this will give you a taste of the bigger software Pinnacle wants to sell you.  In using the free download, I found the tools pretty simple to use.  Dragging and dropping video, images, and music was a snap.  It is very intuitive and in just a few minutes I was off and running.  I’ve used Pinnacle Studio before and these programs always seem to give my computer the “freezies” bringing everything to a screeching halt.  Videospin was no exception.

The upgraded website now features user-made content. If pressed to comment on the content, it is just bad.  It is good in that you can see what knuckleheads are doing but bad in that you are watching what knuckleheads did which makes it a wholly-owned subsidiary of bad.  You can send in your video to them to claim your five minutes of fame.  You can even vote for these knucklehead-inspired videos.  Warning: stay away from the one about the skitzo kid and Nessie.  And yes, I watched only two.

For those of us that can only be jealous of iMovie, this download does a pretty good job of getting our movies up onto the interwebs.  The software can be upgraded to port to iPod and DVD codecs for a price ($15.99 and $19.99 respectively).

Company site [Videospin]