i just wanted to know which is the best movie editing software i have heard to sony vegas is that good ?
editing softwares?
Sony Vegas is not user friendly...as far as I think.Try " CYBERLINK POWERDVD "..i think its the best !
Hmm...I think you'll never know the answer, unless you work at a professional film studio (like Warner Bros, Columbia, etc). There is something more powerful than Sony Vegas (as I seen from a few videos; I never used Sony Vegas myself) called After Effects from Adobe. I cannot say it's better than Sony Vegas. I my opinion the best is Movie Maker because it is very easy to use. The editing power - user friendly ratio is pretty high. I don't thing someone could use After Effects properly without any tutorials.
| Psycho_X52 wrote: |
| Hmm...I think you'll never know the answer, unless you work at a professional film studio (like Warner Bros, Columbia, etc). There is something more powerful than Sony Vegas (as I seen from a few videos; I never used Sony Vegas myself) called After Effects from Adobe. I cannot say it's better than Sony Vegas. I my opinion the best is Movie Maker because it is very easy to use. The editing power - user friendly ratio is pretty high. I don't thing someone could use After Effects properly without any tutorials. |
After Effects is for really advanced work. It's for fine tuning scenes with technical editing. You need something like Premiere along with it for making your final compositions.
adobe premiere is a good one and yeah try to learn using after effects too.... its worth it if u r gonna go for a lot of editing work.
Yes adobe is very good. I haven't ever tried Sony Vegas but it must be pretty good too. Probably the best thing is to download demo versions of both and see which one suits you better. 
If you really wanted to get into it, then definitely go with Adobe. Get After Affects and Premiere Pro if you can afford it.
But if it's just like a one time deal, you would probably be better off going with a cheaper one, or even a free one if you can find one. But if you want to do some amazing stuff, get Adobe. However After Affects are really for advanced things.
Hope this helps.
But if it's just like a one time deal, you would probably be better off going with a cheaper one, or even a free one if you can find one. But if you want to do some amazing stuff, get Adobe. However After Affects are really for advanced things.
Hope this helps.
These questions come up every so often. Honestly there is NO 'best' editing software. There is just editing software. It depends on how good YOU are at using it. Of course there are different 'levels' of editing software, some of the more advanced ones can do things the cheap ones can't. So I'll give you the different 'levels' of editing software.
Free. These usually come preinstalled on your computer. Windows Movie Maker and iMovie. They
are just fine for people wanting to have fun making home videos and hobbyists. They lack some of
the advanced features of the higher end software, but are suprisingly powerful.
Lower end. Adobe Premiere Elements.... Apple Final Cut Express These are 'lite' versions of Adobe
Premiere Pro and Apple Final Cut Pro. These are great bang for the buck and 3/4 as good as the pro
versions for a lot less money.
High end. Adobe Premier Pro, Sony Vegas, Apple Final Cut Pro, Avid, Media 100.......these are the
one's I am most familiar with. They are used by people editing video for money....TV commercials,
movies, documentaries and such. They have a lot of features that a casual user would not need,
and a price tag to go along with it. That being said, they are actually kind of affordable considering
what you get for the price......think $1000-$1500.
Adobe After Effects which was mentioned above, is NOT a NLE (non linear editor). It is effects
and compositing software. Other effects and compositing software is Apple's Motion and Shake.
When you want to create certain 'effects' you bring your video from one of the non linear editors into
this type of software and create what you need. You can do some very basic video editing in After
Effects, but then again you can do some basic compositing and effects in any of the editing programs
as well, so it depends what you are trying to do. Also After Effects and the others are not very
good for editing because you can't hear the audio that goes with the video as you play the video, you
have to do a RAM preview.....a big pain when you are trying to edit scenes together.
Anyways, hope that helps.
Free. These usually come preinstalled on your computer. Windows Movie Maker and iMovie. They
are just fine for people wanting to have fun making home videos and hobbyists. They lack some of
the advanced features of the higher end software, but are suprisingly powerful.
Lower end. Adobe Premiere Elements.... Apple Final Cut Express These are 'lite' versions of Adobe
Premiere Pro and Apple Final Cut Pro. These are great bang for the buck and 3/4 as good as the pro
versions for a lot less money.
High end. Adobe Premier Pro, Sony Vegas, Apple Final Cut Pro, Avid, Media 100.......these are the
one's I am most familiar with. They are used by people editing video for money....TV commercials,
movies, documentaries and such. They have a lot of features that a casual user would not need,
and a price tag to go along with it. That being said, they are actually kind of affordable considering
what you get for the price......think $1000-$1500.
Adobe After Effects which was mentioned above, is NOT a NLE (non linear editor). It is effects
and compositing software. Other effects and compositing software is Apple's Motion and Shake.
When you want to create certain 'effects' you bring your video from one of the non linear editors into
this type of software and create what you need. You can do some very basic video editing in After
Effects, but then again you can do some basic compositing and effects in any of the editing programs
as well, so it depends what you are trying to do. Also After Effects and the others are not very
good for editing because you can't hear the audio that goes with the video as you play the video, you
have to do a RAM preview.....a big pain when you are trying to edit scenes together.
Anyways, hope that helps.
Get to know a cheap or free one inside out first, if this is your first time, before you decide to invest in expensive software from Adobe and the like. Who knows, you might change your mind or you might stick with it.
Good luck, cheers
Good luck, cheers
| Jaan wrote: |
| Get to know a cheap or free one inside out first, if this is your first time, before you decide to invest in expensive software from Adobe and the like. Who knows, you might change your mind or you might stick with it.
Good luck, cheers |
Yes, that's a good piece of advice! Buy an expensive software only when you are absolutely sure that it suits you well. I e.g. bought Cinema 4D after using a demo version of it for nearly 4˝ years. I don't mean that you've got to use it for such a long time before buying but that you are sure the software you are buying is the right one for you.
I highly recommend after effects, just check out the features, they are plenty
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Assuming you are running windows, here is a list of free video editors, maybe just run your way through them and see which suits your fancy
WINDOWS:
Windows Free Media Editor. Its called Windows Movie Maker.
You must use IE to download this product as well, Open source browsers will not allow you to access the site I believe. Windows MovieMaker 2 is a capable little editor and ships free with virtually all new XP computers these days, with upgrades available on the Microsoft Website and other addons available as part of the Plus! package.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/default.mspx or
http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp
Blender
model • shade • animate • render • composite • interactive 3d
Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems.
http://www.blender.org/
Jashaka
The worlds first open source, hardware accelerate editing and effects system! Well worth to check it out.
http://www.jahshaka.org/
Virtual dub
A powerful freeware video editor with lots of features, including a choice of compression codecs, splitting, addition of audio tracks. Excellent.
http://www.virtualdub.org/
WAX
Wax is a high performance and flexible video compositing and special effects software. The idea for Wax is to be very general purpose and flexible in video compositing and effects, so that you can compose your dream video sequence with ease everytime.
http://www.debugmode.com/wax/
Zwei-Stein
Zwei-Stein 3.01 is a freeware non-linear, non-destructive video compositing and editing system which offers many advanced features unavailable elsewhere.
With Zwei-Stein you can edit up to 256 video, audio and still image clips, each with up to 64 effects chained serially. Cropping, panning and custom effects are easy with automatic key frames.
http://www.thugsatbay.com/tab/?q=zweistein_download
ZS4 Video Editor
ZS4 Video Editor is video editing and compositing software which aims to provide media experts with a facility to combine a variety of media types (currently photos, videos and audio files) into one (or more) output file(s).
http://www.zs4.net/free-software-downloads
Avedit
It is a great tool to work with .AVI files. Regardless of small executable size, this avi editor offers you unlimited power of digital video processing. Some high-tech tricks included into AVIedit allows you to perform with ease and fun the many interesting things, like video warping, color restore, noise reduction and so on...
http://www.am-soft.ru/aviedit.html
Avidemux
Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities.
http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/
DDClip Free 2.23
New version is not free old one is though.
http://www.softlab-nsk.com/ddclipro/free.html
Atomic Learning's FREE Video StoryBoard Pro
http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/storyboardpro
SolveigMM AVI Trimmer
SolveigMM AVI Trimmer is a free video editor to allow you to AVI movie cut extremely fast and lossless. This freeware AVI editor software is small, smart, easy to use and involves no encoding/decoding processes. Video enthusiasts use AVI Trimmer to cut commercials, cut video files or edit video for YouTube. AVI Trimmer solves annoying out of sync problem. It operates with all known types of AVI including DV AVI type 1 and 2.
http://www.solveigmm.com/?Products&p=AVITrimmer .
WINDOWS:
Windows Free Media Editor. Its called Windows Movie Maker.
You must use IE to download this product as well, Open source browsers will not allow you to access the site I believe. Windows MovieMaker 2 is a capable little editor and ships free with virtually all new XP computers these days, with upgrades available on the Microsoft Website and other addons available as part of the Plus! package.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/default.mspx or
http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp
Blender
model • shade • animate • render • composite • interactive 3d
Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems.
http://www.blender.org/
Jashaka
The worlds first open source, hardware accelerate editing and effects system! Well worth to check it out.
http://www.jahshaka.org/
Virtual dub
A powerful freeware video editor with lots of features, including a choice of compression codecs, splitting, addition of audio tracks. Excellent.
http://www.virtualdub.org/
WAX
Wax is a high performance and flexible video compositing and special effects software. The idea for Wax is to be very general purpose and flexible in video compositing and effects, so that you can compose your dream video sequence with ease everytime.
http://www.debugmode.com/wax/
Zwei-Stein
Zwei-Stein 3.01 is a freeware non-linear, non-destructive video compositing and editing system which offers many advanced features unavailable elsewhere.
With Zwei-Stein you can edit up to 256 video, audio and still image clips, each with up to 64 effects chained serially. Cropping, panning and custom effects are easy with automatic key frames.
http://www.thugsatbay.com/tab/?q=zweistein_download
ZS4 Video Editor
ZS4 Video Editor is video editing and compositing software which aims to provide media experts with a facility to combine a variety of media types (currently photos, videos and audio files) into one (or more) output file(s).
http://www.zs4.net/free-software-downloads
Avedit
It is a great tool to work with .AVI files. Regardless of small executable size, this avi editor offers you unlimited power of digital video processing. Some high-tech tricks included into AVIedit allows you to perform with ease and fun the many interesting things, like video warping, color restore, noise reduction and so on...
http://www.am-soft.ru/aviedit.html
Avidemux
Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities.
http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/
DDClip Free 2.23
New version is not free
old one is though.
http://www.softlab-nsk.com/ddclipro/free.html
Atomic Learning's FREE Video StoryBoard Pro
http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/storyboardpro
SolveigMM AVI Trimmer
SolveigMM AVI Trimmer is a free video editor to allow you to AVI movie cut extremely fast and lossless. This freeware AVI editor software is small, smart, easy to use and involves no encoding/decoding processes. Video enthusiasts use AVI Trimmer to cut commercials, cut video files or edit video for YouTube. AVI Trimmer solves annoying out of sync problem. It operates with all known types of AVI including DV AVI type 1 and 2.
http://www.solveigmm.com/?Products&p=AVITrimmer .
Hi,
I prefer To use VidCrop PRO ( http://www.geovid.com/VidCrop_PRO/ ).
This program excelent convert and cut video all popular formats.
I prefer To use VidCrop PRO ( http://www.geovid.com/VidCrop_PRO/ ).
This program excelent convert and cut video all popular formats.
I make my videos Mac Final Cut Pro (FCP) this is very good video editing software
i dunno about you but i just prefer windows movie maker, it's free, its easy and in the end u end up with some god stuff.
If you want free stuff, windows movie maker and wax are good, while Adobe After Effects and Sony Vegas are both great professional programs, although they cost a fair amount and take a while to get used to.
I just saw that Final Cut Pro has over 50% of the professional video editing market....
significant only because Macs are in such a minority in general use. I had an argument
with a friend who uses PC's. He told me not to buy a Mac because there is no software for
them and they only have 5% market share. I told him it was much higher in the video editing
market, which is what I was getting a computer for. He told me I was wrong, and that Macs
video editing share was only 5%. I was right and he was wrong....hahahaha.
significant only because Macs are in such a minority in general use. I had an argument
with a friend who uses PC's. He told me not to buy a Mac because there is no software for
them and they only have 5% market share. I told him it was much higher in the video editing
market, which is what I was getting a computer for. He told me I was wrong, and that Macs
video editing share was only 5%. I was right and he was wrong....hahahaha.
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