Video Editing Software

Noquar

It was either here or H/A.

I want to get into some basic editing for personal videos. I have a Canon HD Cam, but as you probably know the software with that is lame.

I don't need anything super fancy, but I am looking for suggestions on someplace to start - preferably free - or won't break the bank.

0blique

Your OS should come with something: Windows Movie maker for windows and iMovie for OSX. Not sure about linux, but there's probably something on sourceforge. I can't say whether the software will be better than what comes with the Canon, but I would say that it's worth looking at.

Ash-Housewares

If you want a super basic editor I suggest Virtualdub. It'll allow you to capture and do some basic editing. It is, however, a pretty damn robust encoder.

It's a great little bit of software. I primarily use it for encoding things my video editor can't encode natively (DIVX).

Seeks

Seconding VD (:winky:).

Windows Movie Maker (or "Windows Live something something," whichever) is just fine for basic editing, as is its counterpart on Mac I'm sure.

Linux, I'd suggest Kdenlive mostly, though it's buggy. It's basically like WMM for linux. There's also cinellera (sp?), open movie editor, or Kino if you're doing DV stuff. Kino is especially made for DV stuff. Also, avidemuxer to... demux avis? I guess. I'm forgetting something else, but it probably wasn't good anyway.

Noquar

For now just putting in text, cutting some parts out. WMM looks like it is out as it doesn't read .MTS files. I may check out VirtualDub.

Ayulin

If you want to pay for something, I'd recommend Sony's Vegas Movie Studio. The Platinum edition supports HD video, and is simple enough to learn pretty easily while being pretty in-depth in terms of what you can do.

GothicLargo

Ayulin wrote: »

If you want to pay for something, I'd recommend Sony's Vegas Movie Studio. The Platinum edition supports HD video, and is simple enough to learn pretty easily while being pretty in-depth in terms of what you can do.

Alternatively if you want to get your money's worth when you pay for something, you could get Final Cut Express HD. Now, admittedly you will have to pay a lot more seeing as how you'll need a mac to run it on, but if you're going to actually spend money on editing tools, there's Final Cut and then there's everyone else. Apple's product is what everyone else tries to be.

Nightslyr

I used Adobe's Premiere Pro for my brother's wedding. Was easy enough to use.