mac and pc media software

Alpharius

I'm into a few creative outlets: 2D digital art, film making, and music composition/recording

Up until this point I've always been using high end PC software for this stuff - but a friend showed me his macbook pro and a few of the more basic/cheap and cheerful media apps on it. I was amazed at how quickly basic mockups could be thrown together (I was particularly impressed with the overall quality of the templates that came right out of the box)

At the pro end of the scale I see no real reason for using Mac over PC, but I'm unaware of any quick and easy PC software for getting this basic stuff together.

My question to you all is: do any of you duders know of quick and easy art, video and music editing software for the PC that would be suitable for getting some ideas down? Akin to doing a sketch before leaping into a full blown painting.

because I'm now tempted to get a mac, but would rather not spend the money on a whole extra computer.

TheSonicRetard

I'm a radio, television, and film major at UT (basically our media major) and we mainly use Adobe After Effects and adobe premiere.

Captain K

' wrote:

-[arlequin;2385117']because I'm now tempted to get a mac, but would rather not spend the money on a whole extra computer.

Well, if you think you can create finished products you're happy with on a $1200 mac, it might end up costing you the same as would a $400 PC and an $800 copy of Adobe Premiere Pro.


food for thought maybe

EDIT: oh right. My point was that you're sure as shit not going to do anything special with Windows Movie Maker, as I have recently learned. It suits my purposes okay, but I'm just chopping up live recordings into clips and adding titles. I'm pretty sure that's about the limit of what you can do with WMM.

Big Dookie

You can purchase some pretty good Video Editing software for the PC, but most of the free stuff you find online isn't going to be nearly fully-featured enough to do anything serious. You might want to try something like Avid Free DV, and if you like it, you can consider purchasing something like Avid Xpress later on to give you all of the important features you need. Avid Free DV isn't bad though - I've used it several times, and it's very serviceable for free software.

Adobe Premiere is a good option as well, especially if you want to use it with Photoshop and After Effects. I've used Premiere quite a bit, and I really liked it.