MFB
I need to buy a simple and cheap home movie editing program to edit the little films I take with my digital camera and format them for DVD. Does anyone have suggestions?
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Video editing software that adds music and narrations. These programs can link together short video clips. One warning: Video editing demands a lot of computer resourcesâeach hour of video requires 13 gigabytes of hard drive space. You will need at least 512 megabytes of RAM. Anything less will slow down your computer considerably.
1. Windows Movie Maker. If you have Windows XP, you should have Windows Movie Maker 2 (Windows XP only). Click Start, All Programs, Accessories, Entertainment, Windows Movie Maker. If you donât find it, you can download it from Microsoft's Web site (www.microsoft.com). Microsoftâs Web site offers a number of tutorials.
You can assemble clips using the storyboard view. This allows you to drag and drop clips into little boxes at the bottom of your screen (you can change the order of these boxes, too). When you find the order you like, you can add over 50 transitions (fades, dissolves, wipes, etc.) that will link your clips together.
Video effects will slow down, speed up or blur your video. Thereâs even an effect that can turn portions of your video into a watercolor painting.
The timeline view allows you to add music, titles or narration.
2. Avid Free DV (www.avid.com/freedv, Windows XP; Mac OS X 10.4.2 or later) offers a fraction of Avidâs other (and costly) video-editing programs. But it does have some of the features of the full version of Avid.
There are over a dozen free video tutorials on Avidâs Web site.
Avid Free DV allows you to trim video, edit audio and create titles. Its timeline utilizes two video and two audio tracks and 16 video effects.
3. VirtualDub (www.virtualdub.org; Windows 95 and later)is a very fast, full-featured program.
The video-editing capabilities are limited, but it allows you to trim video and adjust audio. VirtualDub is known for its filters: adjust the brightness; sharpen the picture; blur clips together; rotate pictures; etc. Then you can view the before effects and after effects in the two windowsâhere you can cancel the filter effects.
For the more advanced there is:
Adobe www.adobe.com
Pinnacle www.pinnaclesys.com
Ulead www.ulead.com
Cost: less than $100.
Video editing software that adds music and narrations. These programs can link together short video clips. One warning: Video editing demands a lot of computer resourcesâeach hour of video requires 13 gigabytes of hard drive space. You will need at least 512 megabytes of RAM. Anything less will slow down your computer considerably.
1. Windows Movie Maker. If you have Windows XP, you should have Windows Movie Maker 2 (Windows XP only). Click Start, All Programs, Accessories, Entertainment, Windows Movie Maker. If you donât find it, you can download it from Microsoft's Web site (www.microsoft.com). Microsoftâs Web site offers a number of tutorials.
You can assemble clips using the storyboard view. This allows you to drag and drop clips into little boxes at the bottom of your screen (you can change the order of these boxes, too). When you find the order you like, you can add over 50 transitions (fades, dissolves, wipes, etc.) that will link your clips together.
Video effects will slow down, speed up or blur your video. Thereâs even an effect that can turn portions of your video into a watercolor painting.
The timeline view allows you to add music, titles or narration.
2. Avid Free DV (www.avid.com/freedv, Windows XP; Mac OS X 10.4.2 or later) offers a fraction of Avidâs other (and costly) video-editing programs. But it does have some of the features of the full version of Avid.
There are over a dozen free video tutorials on Avidâs Web site.
Avid Free DV allows you to trim video, edit audio and create titles. Its timeline utilizes two video and two audio tracks and 16 video effects.
3. VirtualDub (www.virtualdub.org; Windows 95 and later)is a very fast, full-featured program.
The video-editing capabilities are limited, but it allows you to trim video and adjust audio. VirtualDub is known for its filters: adjust the brightness; sharpen the picture; blur clips together; rotate pictures; etc. Then you can view the before effects and after effects in the two windowsâhere you can cancel the filter effects.
For the more advanced there is:
Adobe www.adobe.com
Pinnacle www.pinnaclesys.com
Ulead www.ulead.com
Cost: less than $100.
What is the best video editing software for Mac?
Joshua
I've had bad experiences with Final Cut, and iMovie is for amateur video. What is the best professional movie editing software for Macintosh. I want it to be easy to use but let me do more than iMovie. And inexpensive is also a plus. PROFESSIONAL EDITING SOFTWARE
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** @BuBaH, Premiere Pro wasn't used to edit it. The creative editing for AVATAR is done using an AVID based system, Premiere Pro is able to read in cut-lists and other important metadata using its built-in AVID âAAFâ import feature.**
Well the only other PROFESSIONAL and I mean REALLY PRO editing software is Avid Media Composer Nitris DX. Now the retail version, the highest grade version (used for feature films) is around $15,000. But, you can get a lower grade educational version (if your a student) called "Avid Media Composer." This is still really good software. It has a completely different interface and style than final cut pro, which is good since you said you have had bad experiences with FCP. It can do everything FCP can plus more. Go to www.academicsuperstore.com and search "Avid Media Composer" Its like $300. I also suggest buying the 3rd party plugins for the software too. (Around 300).
Avid Media Composer (edu version) is the cheapest PRO software you'll find. Editors working on major motion pictures use this software the most.
*** the edu. version is exactly the same and the commercial version, its just $2000 cheaper than Avid Media Composer
** @BuBaH, Premiere Pro wasn't used to edit it. The creative editing for AVATAR is done using an AVID based system, Premiere Pro is able to read in cut-lists and other important metadata using its built-in AVID âAAFâ import feature.**
Well the only other PROFESSIONAL and I mean REALLY PRO editing software is Avid Media Composer Nitris DX. Now the retail version, the highest grade version (used for feature films) is around $15,000. But, you can get a lower grade educational version (if your a student) called "Avid Media Composer." This is still really good software. It has a completely different interface and style than final cut pro, which is good since you said you have had bad experiences with FCP. It can do everything FCP can plus more. Go to www.academicsuperstore.com and search "Avid Media Composer" Its like $300. I also suggest buying the 3rd party plugins for the software too. (Around 300).
Avid Media Composer (edu version) is the cheapest PRO software you'll find. Editors working on major motion pictures use this software the most.
*** the edu. version is exactly the same and the commercial version, its just $2000 cheaper than Avid Media Composer
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