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A good beginner video editor?

CentipeedCentipeed Registered User regular
edited February 2007 in Help / Advice Forum
I usually use Windows Movie Maker whenever I want to cobble together a video quickly, and in the past it's served it purpose adequately.

However, recently I find myself wanting a richer feature set, but with the same ease of use as Windows Movie Maker. I can't see a way, for example, to remove the audio from an imported video and only use the imported audio track as audio for the resulting video file.

If anyone has any suggestions, I'd like something that's simple to look at, but not too specific (Like VirtualDub, which I already have).

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  • MichaelLCMichaelLC In what furnace was thy brain? ChicagoRegistered User regular
    edited February 2007
    I have Pinnacle Studio 9, and it's OK.

    The basic is like $50 (or was when I bought it), so not a major investment. Works pretty good on my work laptop (low-end HP).

    Has seperate video and audio editing, basic titles and overlays. Outputs to Real, WMV, or DV.

    Of course at home I've got iMovie & iDVD, but that's just how I roll, to use a Tycho phrase.

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  • supabeastsupabeast Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    iMovie is really the way to go. It's easy to learn, has a great interface, and when you're ready to move up again it will be easy to transition to Final Cut. Of course, you'll have to buy a Mac, but that's a good thing!

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  • CentipeedCentipeed Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    supabeast wrote:
    iMovie is really the way to go. It's easy to learn, has a great interface, and when you're ready to move up again it will be easy to transition to Final Cut. Of course, you'll have to buy a Mac, but that's a good thing!

    I'm looking for something preferably free, or if not something relatively cheap. iMovie would cost me hundreds of pounds. Plus, I'd have to put up with having a Mac.

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  • Xenocide GeekXenocide Geek Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Centipeed wrote:
    supabeast wrote:
    iMovie is really the way to go. It's easy to learn, has a great interface, and when you're ready to move up again it will be easy to transition to Final Cut. Of course, you'll have to buy a Mac, but that's a good thing!

    I'm looking for something preferably free, or if not something relatively cheap. iMovie would cost me hundreds of pounds. Plus, I'd have to put up with having a Mac.

    Conform to using the Mac! It's the true OS for video editting!

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  • CentipeedCentipeed Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Xenocide Geek wrote:
    Centipeed wrote:
    supabeast wrote:
    iMovie is really the way to go. It's easy to learn, has a great interface, and when you're ready to move up again it will be easy to transition to Final Cut. Of course, you'll have to buy a Mac, but that's a good thing!

    I'm looking for something preferably free, or if not something relatively cheap. iMovie would cost me hundreds of pounds. Plus, I'd have to put up with having a Mac.

    Conform to using the Mac! It's the true OS for video editting!

    Search your feelings, you know it to be true!

    I don't mind light hearted and funny, but these kinds of suggestions aren't really helping.

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