What is your Windows VIDEO EDITING Software of choice?

I'm using Premiere CS3 Seems to be able to do all I need at the moment.

vegas and pinnacle

I think your just upset cause your the only person in history who's partner got a mac pro with all the bells and whistles and claims it loaded photoshop slower than like a 486/sx... join reality.. get a mac and stop crying.. windows machines will never come close to the mac...

people in the know choose mac....

At Nab rumor has it sony will be announcing vegas 64 bit

I will be there tomorrow so I will report what I see and when I see it.. im not taking any video cameras though to film anything I suppose ill take my little pas cam

Vegas 8 beats anything even on the mac. Final Cut pro is way over rated and even more overpriced. Vegas does a better job on HDV or SD hands down.

No thanks lmao Funny people used to say you had to have a mac to do any "serious" studio recording work too.. Funneh.

i did all my serious studio recording on Atari ST ;)

Impossible! ONLY the Mac is elite enough to do anything creative with. I call BS!!

now your learning....

vegas movie studio platinum 8 here for all DV/HDV needs

Is there a good codec pack that I can download and install?


Some videos I try to import into vegas 7 and 8.... will only import the video part of it... not the audio....


HELP!

MSPAINT.EXE and VirtualDub.

another sony vegas user here

i sometimes use other programs for ripping, simple splitting and batching, but for editing, watermarking and 1 video at a time encoding, vegas rocks!

Funny how the PC guys have to install 3rd party programs to get their stuff working.


But here is the point : I've edited on PCs for nearly 10 years now. I was a die hard PC user. Then I tried a MAC and realised : Oh shit, I've been complicating my life for nothing.


Still love my PCs, but when it comes to getting a job done quickly and with high quality output, I go with a MAC. Plain and simple.


If you haven't tried BOTH systems extensively, then dont even bother trying to debate the issue cause you haven't seen what the other system has to offer.


As for AVID, yes its still the backbone of mainstream hollywood, but there is a very obvious reason for it :

Editors are in a Guild... they control the game and keep the work to themselves. Most of them have been at it for 20+ years. They've learned how to edit on AVIDS and simply haven't bothered to learn another system.

Since they are seniors in the game, they decide what post-production studios equip themselves with (avids in this case), cause thats what they know. So the younger crowds have to learn to use it too if they want to stay in the game.

Once the older guys retire, the new generation of Editors will most likely switch over to a more user friendly editing system.

Why you ask? Cause who in their right minds wants to have to click 5 times just too add a bloody fade to a clip?!? hehe