An video editing software is an application software that handles the editing of video sequences on a computer. It usually includes the ability to import and export video, cut and paste sections of a video clip, add special effects and transitions, and sometimes includes the ability to encode the video for creation of a DVD. Video editing software generally also allow for some limited editing of the audio clips that accompany the video or, at least, the ability to sync the audio with the video.

Lightworks and Avid are both pioneers in video editing software and has a great influence on the way that how films and TV programmes were edited. Both systems used custom hardware for video processing.

With the availability of commodity video processing hardware, specialist video editing cards and computers designed specifically for non-linear video editing many software packages are now available to work with them.

See also

• Film editing
• List of video topics
• List of video editing software
• Comparison of video editing software