Videos are a hot commodity right now, but not everyone knows how to make them, let alone edit them. This is where you could offer a video creation or editing service.

Video Creation Service
Using free tools found online, you can quickly learn how to combine text, pictures, and audio, and turn those elements into a video for online customers.

Here's a short list of free online tools that you can use to get started:

Audacity for audio files
Camstudio for creating videos
OpenOffice.org for presentation software similar to PowerPoint
Jing for creating screen captures
http://www.dmoz.org/Arts/Music/Sound_Files/Samples_and_Loops/ for royalty-free musical loop directories for adding music to the videos that you create.
Video Editing Services
Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned professional, you can easily sell your services to edit videos. 

If you're a total newbie at this, you will find hundreds of tutorials online, both written and as videos showing you how to edit a video. 

It will not take you very long to understand how everything works. It will take you an even shorter amount of time as you get better at this task.

To edit videos for clients, these are the components that you will ask your customer to provide to you:

1. A script. The words that will go on each slide within the video presentation. The goal is 10 words or less for each slide; the simpler the better is what creates an effective message.

2. A musical loop in a MP3 format. You can purchase musical loops (a short instrumental or musical song) by category and have them shipped to you on CD, or you can download the loops to your computer.
 
If the customer is not providing a musical loop, then you will choose the musical track that will go along with the video presentation.

3. Sometimes the customer will provide a voiceover, which is an audio file that you will need to add to the video. 

The audio formats vary depending upon how they were recorded and saved. 

Make sure you understand which fil