Avidemux is a Windows-based application designed to help you edit video files as easy as possible. So, if you want to make some small adjustments on a home video, then you don't need to get into large and complex software... just use this small tool.

After a quick installation process, you'll probably notice how straightforward the user interface is.

Once you have opened a video file to work with, you can crop it by indicating a selection and pressing Delete on your keyboard (you can even crop black bars), or re-encode it by selecting the output file format from a drop-down list and saving it.

Fortunately, Avidemux supports a lot of codecs for the video format, including AVI, FLV and MPEG, but also for the audio format, such as MP3, WAV and OGG.

In addition, you can take advantage of decoder options, processing tools, filters, configuring the frame rate, a glyphs editor, and many others.

Of course, just like any other application, Avidemux comes with a few bad parts of its own. For example, the program doesn't have a built-in help file (which can be very troubling for first-time users), and at some point it jams and crashes (in our case, every time we tried to select the Plugin Manager).

Nevertheless, it's a free program, so you should at least try it out. The fact of the matter is that Avidemux has some great abilities for its size, and most users will definitely fall in love with it.