I’ve been using Womble Video Wizard for awhile now and highly recommend it. I originally bought it to edit raw ReplayTV dumps but I use it also to edit Fraps vids now.

At $99, it’s not free it’s not too pricey either.
Yet for the price it’s got some very good features and is super simple to use.

Hope that helps and keep up the great work!

I edited together a a Fraps dump of a Pawbuster run recently, for practice mostly.
As you know, Fraps automatically breaks them into 3+GB chunks.
The editor handled them perfectly fine and I only had 2gb of mem and a Athlon x2 at the time mind you.
So long as your machine is anywhere near current you should be ok.

I use Camtasia for most of my videos but it isn’t free. I got hooked up with a copy…

Speaking of videos my AOC writeup is done with 4 in game videos taken by me. Cheers.

Camtasia studio is $300. :P

Its as easy to use as WMM and doesn’t have many more production features but it has vastly superior output capability.

That sounds a bit like Animoto. but I think it only uses photos and short videos. It still comes up with nice production values. My brother showed it to me and I made a real quick thing with some images I had on my PC: http://animoto.com/play/Xa7HUQcS9Cd5eQkjK4W07A

Tipa, shop around and you should be able to get Adobe Premier Elements at a decent price. Can usually find it bundled with Photoshop Elements for ~£70 here, so similar in $s? It’s not *full* featured but if you’re using Windows Movie Maker it’s a world ahead.

If I was on the right machine I could check if it handles the screen res you mentioned but it’s late o’clock here and I’m tired / lazy ;)

I use it along with Fraps for most everything now.