Originally developed for the Mac, Adobe Premiere is a tool for editing videos.

DVMpeg, from Darim Vision Co., Ltd, is an MPEG encoder that can convert Windows AVI files to MPEG.

Apple's Final Cut Pro was a professional digital video editing application from Apple. At the time, video editing was moving away from specialized hardware, and Apple was trying to position their G4 systems as complete multimedia systems for this kind of work.

Macromedia Flash is a vector animation package originally developed by FutureWave and later acquired by Adobe. Flash can export animation as video files or in its own proprietary interactive vector animation format playable by the Flash Player. Flash versions prior to 5 do not include the ActionScript scripting language. The interaction is instead scripted using drag-an-drop "actions".

Home Video Producer is a home video title creation program for the IBM PC and compatibles. There were also versions for the Apple II and Commodore 64. It provides fonts, backdrops, animations, and makes use of CGA color artifacting for 16 colors.

iMovie is a home oriented movie making tool from Apple. With iMovie, one would record a video, load it on to the macintosh, delete, move, or insert sections of the video, add transitions, add titles, or insert background audio. It was specifically intended for use with digital camcorders and FireWire. It was later moved in to the iLife software suite.

WinDVD is a DVD Player bundled with many DVD drives for Microsoft windows.

PowerDVD is a DVD player program bundled with some CD-ROM drives.

QuickTime is Apple's Image, Video and Audio framework. QuickTime is freely redistributable, and is provided here only as a convenience. Some applications on Winworld may require that this software be installed first.

MediaStudio is a suite of multimedia editing tools. It includes a video editor, video capture tool, image editor, sound editor, and morphing tool. Also supports video conversion, batch mode operation, and overlays.

Windows Media Center was a full-screen media player and video recorder designed for use on home theater PCs. It competed against digital recording devices like the Tivo.

The media player built-into Windows