Join Videos For Free

Just a few days ago, one of my good friends asked me for some software recommendations for joining her videos. She also mentioned that she needed to edit some of the videos she was working on instead of blindly joined all the videos into 1 single video file. If you google this, you can actually find many free tools for video-editing. The tools you can find from Google search results may lie on the range of good to crap, free to commercial and safe to malware (which is why Google has recently been crowned as the King of Malware) that Google has always been a common place for finding resources.

So what tools can you use to join, split or edit videos for free without risking your computer safety?


Don't worry, I am not introducing another new softwares which by now, you should be tired of trying different freewares you can find from Google, but still cannot get your videos joined. Instead, today I am sharing this long-forgotten Windows Movie Maker.

Windows Movie Maker is installed by default in Windows XP and Vista. However since the release of Windows 7, Microsoft has decided to remove this feature.

Why Windows Movie Maker? Personally, I think Windows Movie Maker is the easiest way to edit your videos without requiring any technical video-editing skills. The simple user-interface eases the users to edit videos effectively and efficiently. It is also completely free to use and small in size.

So when I recommended Windows Movie Maker to her, she encountered some codec problems while importing her videos. This problem occurs because in Windows XP by default, Windows Movie Maker do not automatically download the codecs. You can fix it from: Tools > Options, from the "General" tab, check for the box: "Download codecs automatically".

When downloading of codecs is enabled, connection with the codec server is triggered when the user imports an audio or video file for which no codec is available on the local computer. The user is notified and must confirm the download for it to occur. Otherwise, to cause Windows Movie Maker to connect to a site on the Internet, the user must explicitly click a link or choose the option of saving a movie to the Web.

Just for your information, I notice that for Windows 7 (you can find the link for Windows Movie Maker below this article), you will not find this check-box from the "Options" which I believe, it is enabled by default.




She claimed that Windows Movie Maker was able to download the codecs only after she restarted the Movie Maker. Then she finally was able to joined her videos without needing any third-party tools.

You can download and install Windows Movie Maker for Windows 7 from:

[ Download Page for Windows Movie Maker ] Download size: ~7.01MB


Are your videos that you want to join hosted somewhere in the internet? You can probably try this free service as well, which may help you to join even easier: online.movavi.com. You just need to enter the URL, choose the output format and start the conversion and download.