Video Editing Software

[daspope 146]

What do you guys use?

I wam sick of Windows Live Movie Maker's limitations, I dont have the time nor patience to learn Adobe Premier/After Effects, and I would prefer to not move the video files over to my mac anyway, I would just assume use iMovie at that point.

Soooo....

I am wondering if any of you can recomend a free/cheap video editing suite that is as easy or easier than Movie Maker/iMovie but has slightly more or better features.

Features for manipulating soundtracks would be nice also, but not really needed as Adobe Audition is easy enough to use to do what I need.

[Kaffarov37 125]

I need to follow this topic

[binaryman010011 8]

I have a dual boot setup on my pc with Windows on one partition and Ubuntu on the other. Kdenlive is a decent free video editor for linux. It does have a few bugs, just save often. I realize that may not be the answer you were looking for, but I thought it worth a mention anyway. I haven't looked into it, but I want to say that Blender has a built in video editor. Don't quote me on that though. Good luck!

[santyclaus 12]

What about any sony vegas platinum edition? :)

[daspope 146]

I have a dual boot setup on my pc with Windows on one partition and Ubuntu on the other. Kdenlive is a decent free video editor for linux. It does have a few bugs, just save often. I realize that may not be the answer you were looking for, but I thought it worth a mention anyway. I haven't looked into it, but I want to say that Blender has a built in video editor. Don't quote me on that though. Good luck!

I may give that a go, I have a few different linux distro's I can boot into from VMWare, thanks for the suggestion.

[clever 12]

Just pirate a video editing software if you're desperate to get something good. Most good video editing software are pretty expensive from what I've seen.

[daspope 146]

What about any sony vegas platinum edition? :)

Looking into that I found Movie Studio for under $50, I may give the trial a go...

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/moviestudio

[daspope 146]

Just pirate a video editing software if you're desperate to get something good. Most good video editing software are pretty expensive from what I've seen.

I have the money to buy tools I use.

As an independant software/web developer I would rather people not pirate my software. I have Adobe master collection legitimately for web dev/design needs, but Adobe premier is waaaay more than what I need and I dont want to invest the time in learning it since I am not going to be producing cinematic trailers or editing full length features. I am talking 5-20 minute youtube videos.

All I need is something easy to use and quick to "pick up and go" I dont need 500 silders to get the coloring of the video just right.

[binaryman010011 8]

Here's an example tutorial of Kdenlive hosted by NixiePixel :)

Blender does have a Video Sequence Editor, but it has what looks like a massive learning curve.

Under linux, there is also PiTiVi which is more stable but less featured than Kdenlive

Edited August 17, 2012 by binaryman010011

[dgeesio 1034]

use vegas platinum its about 25-30 pound got everything you need unless you steven spielburg .

theres a program called trackaxpc which is pretty sweet quite cheap

wmm = free

[daspope 146]

use vegas platinum its about 25-30 pound got everything you need unless you steven spielburg .

theres a program called trackaxpc which is pretty sweet quite cheap

wmm = free

yeah I think I will give that a go, now I just have to figure out why my mic (turtle beach earforce x11) echos like crazy and records crazy loud, maybe I will enclose my desk area in cardboard and foam to absorb the sound lmfao

Edited August 17, 2012 by daspope

[binaryman010011 8]

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theres a program called trackaxpc which is pretty sweet quite cheap

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Sweet find, I'll definitely give that one a try myself :D