The program for creating special effects in the video.

http://www.genarts.com/particleillusion
 
The program for adding visual effects
ParticleIllusion is a complete standalone application (although it appeared as a plugin to the after effects). ParticleIllusion makes it easy to create amazing visual effects with amazing realism, such as fire, explosions, sparks, smoke, and various abstract backgrounds and screensavers, and even laser sword like a Jedi.
interface ParticleIllusion

Video Thumbnails Maker 1.0.0.7

Free program, the main purpose of which is to preserve frames from the video and thumbnail creation on their basis. The program can be used successfully to create a home movie collection (look at the screenshots, it is much easier to remember what was the film and decide whether or revise it), as well as for the publication of information about movies online.

Video Thumbnails Maker can handle video files in batch mode, works with any video formats if the system has the appropriate codec.