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Ah… the homemade “tribute” music video. What better way to show your love for a celebrity, professional wrestler, or animated series from Japan than to commit low-level copyright infringement in their name? If this is a racket that you want to get in on but believe that your video editing skill are lacking, check out Animoto. Simply upload some images, upload a song of your choice, and Animoto does the rest. The results are surprisingly good.

Say that you’ve graduated past the random “still” image. Maybe you want to incorporate actual video into your tribute or business video. Don’t worry, because MuveeMix has it all covered. MuveeMix takes in your music, throws in some video of your choice, and then edits it on the fly. The result? A professional quality music video. As always, MuveeMix is completely free of charge.

Some of us, however, might not be as content letting a website do the work for them. For all you control freaks hands-on types, there’s JumpCut, from Yahoo. JumpCut is like a web-based iMovie, allowing you to edit, splice, overlay, and more, all from your browser. One of the coolest features is that you can import media directly from your Facebook page or your Flikr account. You also get a special email address, that your friends can use to send you clips from their mobile phones. All you need is a Yahoo ID (those are free as well) and a video camera.

If you want more out of a video editor than what JumpCut can provide, but at the same time not willing to take out the small bank loan it takes to afford Apple’s Final Cut Pro, then EyeSpot might be for you. It’s not as powerful as Final Cut Pro, but it has more bells and whistles than JumpCut. And for an added feature, it even allows you to embed the video editor into your website, allowing other people to come in and mix up and edit videos that you put on your website. A 100 MB upload limit doesn’t get you very far with video content, though. Hopefully, they’ll up this limit soon. If not, someone will. There’s no stopping the Free Line.

And now for the big one. Are you ready for this? Your not…there’s no way. What we’re about to show you is going to change the very meaning of online video. Kaltura is a…wait for it… a free and open source VIDEO PLATFORM! Well, what does that mean, you ask? I thought you might. It means that now anybody can add a full featured video solution to their website for free! Functionality includes uploading, transcoding, remixing, annotating, sharing, search, and just about anything else you can think of. A plugin has just been released that let’s you add Kaltura video to a wiki and a WordPress plugin is coming soon. Keep your eye on our own Free Line wiki. We’ll be implementing this very soon. Its just too cool.