Video Editing Software

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

I'm doing a project and I need some good video editing software. Any reccomendations?

 

It should be free, or have a trial that I can use before I have to pay.

[Hactar]

My friend uses Adobe Premier, he likes that a lot. I've heard its pretty good.

[Dave]

You might want to try Avid FreeDV (http://www.avid.com), I've heard it's pretty good for just bolting video together. The interface takes a bit of getting used to, but (imo) it's the best of any video editor out there.

[Newtonian]

Depends what you want it for,joining mpegs,avi,divx.Converting formats,vcd's,dvd's

you have to be more specific.You might only need a small program?

what do you want t to do Cap'n

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

I'm taping a video and I need to put the bits together and add subtitles, etc.

 

Nothing too fancy.

 

erm, Avid FreeDv says that it needs a gigabyte of system memory... yikes. I have half that.

[ed84c]

how are you connecting it to ur pc?

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

FireWire or USB, either way, I believe.

[ecoli]

I'm taping a video and I need to put the bits together and add subtitles' date=' etc.

 

Nothing too fancy.

 

erm, Avid FreeDv says that it needs a gigabyte of system memory... yikes. I have half that.[/quote']

 

I use Sony's Pixella. It's not that great, unless your doing small stuff. I got it for free with my camera, so I'm not sure you can get it online.

 

edit: heres the website http://www.imagemixer.com/e/sony/handycam/index.htm

[ecoli]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=free+video+editing+software&btnG=Search

 

you might be able to find other things here, too.

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

Does anyone know if the Windows Movie Maker is any good?

[mrbc19]

Movie maker is really simple, almost to the point that I find it pretty bad software. You can get a 30 day trial of Sony Vegas 5 at the sony website, and that is really top notch software. I found it very easy to learn, and you can just use its simple features, or get more in depth with key frames and color correction if thats what you want.

[bloodhound]

I would definitely go with VirtualDub or VirtualDubMod ( modified to be compatible with stuff like .ogm and .mkv) Both are open source. Handy for creating .avi's , splitting them , joining up and many other advanced stuff. You can also add your subtitles to avi using the textsub filter. First you will have to learn up how to create .srt or .ssa subtitles.

 

For most your stuff. VitrualDub will definitely get the job done.

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

Well, I need to do MPEGs. My editor just died on me, so what can I do? VirtualDub doesn't seem to be working right. Vegas doesn't want to open MPEGs.

[bloodhound]

why do mpegs when u can do avi.

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

Can I burn avi onto a DVD?

 

MPEGs are what the camera gives me.

[bloodhound]

then i guess adobe premier is the way to go.

[Dave]

You can burn pretty much anything onto DVD as long as you have the proper codecs for it. Most of the DVD authoring software will automatically transcode the video into MPEG2 for you anyway. Also, your camera probably gives you MPEG1 instead of MPEG2, so you'd have to do this anyway.

 

FreeDV is a bit of a beast, but you can run it on 512mb quite easily as long as you don't start doing anything *too* drastic. Try it and see what you think.

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

Okay, but since I did some titles on my other one that died, I'll have to use both (on different computers). Bleh.

Unless FreeDV does titles.