I've just finished recording all of our old family VHS tapes to the computer and now have about 90 gigs of video which I need to (mainly) trim bits (blanks and tv show popups) from and to make into chapters for putting onto DVDs.

Windows XP had that crappy movie maker thing but Windows 7 doesn't seem to have it. I was wondering if anyone had a recommendation for a (free) bit of software which can do what I'm after.

The videos are all recorded to MPEG-2.

Edited March 22, 201115 yr by Duggeh

VirtualDubMod can do this for you

Virtualdubmod is a little bit technically challenged and buggy and has been for years, even though it is also one of the greatest tools. Videospin is a popular windows movie maker replacement.

Just ran across this on lifehacker. New tool called Lightworks. Free, no less.

Lightworks Article at Lifehacker

Thanks guys. I'll try those out.