need a good video editing program.
Re: need a good video editing program.
Try Avidemux. It's free and cross platform. There's also Virtualdub, which is free but not cross platform.
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Re: need a good video editing program.
cross platform?
Re: need a good video editing program.
Cross platform means it works on several platforms. Windows, OS X, and Linux in this case. This is nice if you use multiple operating systems, or want to change in the future.
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Re: need a good video editing program.
Avidemux is essentially the video version of Audacity. Useful but extremely limited in creative potential.
If you are a student (or soon to be a student) then I'd look into getting a student discount on some professional software. I bought most of my creative software whilst a student (Yay student loan! Also, shock horror a student using their loan for it's actual purpose, rather than pissing it up a wall) and the rest I have managed to acquire through various educational discounts I have access to from being a tutor. Software companies absolutely love the education sector, so massive discounts can be had. I paid roughly £200 for my copy of Premiere Pro CS4 a couple of years ago. I don't think that was bad considering the full version is nearly £800 in this country (might be more now, I haven't checked for a while). Personally, I haven't found a video editing program as good as that, Final Cut Pro just annoys the crap out of me with constantly requiring you to render edits before auditioning. It's way too stop-start for my liking. Premiere is just smooth, any edits are auditioned instantly. Allows me to get my workload done in half the time. Plus Media Encoder is multi-threaded and very fast, so rendering doesn't take half as long either.
You can trial Premiere CS5 for 30 days to see if you like it. If that is out of your price range (it's definitely worth it if you're a student) there's always Premiere elements, which is £70 in this country, I assume it's around $140 in your country (RRP, student may be much cheaper). Again, that has a 30 day trial (AFAIK).
If you are a student (or soon to be a student) then I'd look into getting a student discount on some professional software. I bought most of my creative software whilst a student (Yay student loan! Also, shock horror a student using their loan for it's actual purpose, rather than pissing it up a wall) and the rest I have managed to acquire through various educational discounts I have access to from being a tutor. Software companies absolutely love the education sector, so massive discounts can be had. I paid roughly £200 for my copy of Premiere Pro CS4 a couple of years ago. I don't think that was bad considering the full version is nearly £800 in this country (might be more now, I haven't checked for a while). Personally, I haven't found a video editing program as good as that, Final Cut Pro just annoys the crap out of me with constantly requiring you to render edits before auditioning. It's way too stop-start for my liking. Premiere is just smooth, any edits are auditioned instantly. Allows me to get my workload done in half the time. Plus Media Encoder is multi-threaded and very fast, so rendering doesn't take half as long either.
You can trial Premiere CS5 for 30 days to see if you like it. If that is out of your price range (it's definitely worth it if you're a student) there's always Premiere elements, which is £70 in this country, I assume it's around $140 in your country (RRP, student may be much cheaper). Again, that has a 30 day trial (AFAIK).
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Marlena gave Vegas a try as she was hoping it would help her make some sharper stuff than Corel, but she just couldn't get into. Now it just sits on the shelf.fastbilly1 wrote:I have always been a fan of Sonic Foundry, now Sony Vegas, for low end work.
Version 9 is only $120 on Amazon:
I havent used the newest, but it was a good bit more developed than WMM and did everything I needed it to do back then. But ever since I bought an AVID back in 04 I havent used it.
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Re: need a good video editing program.
special effects? HD support? all thatracketboy wrote:I love Corel Video Studio -- best value, by far if you ask me.
My ex-wife uses it regularly for her video production on a daily basis.
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I use sony vegas. I like it.
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I tried Adobe Premier before, and it is very powerful, but most of the work I do with video is post-processing image filters on all frames of a clip. For what I do Virtualdub with about 40 downloaded specialized filters can do all the video processing I ever need. I love that you can chain them together and get realtime feedback while adjusting the parameters of each one. I've done some 20+ filter chains to correct the video quality of badly degraded VHS videos.
