Whats the best video editing software?
 

as the title says....

Discret Edit 6 + combustion
... but bout a full matrox boardset first

the easyest and cheapest ... adobe premier6

Try to stay away from Pinnacle Studio 9, I've never had more bugs in a piece of software than I had while using it. Try Sony's Vegas also, it's great stuff.

Mac = Final Cut Pro with Cleaner 6.

PC = Premiere or FCP.

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thanks....

also is premier 6 newbie friendly, but with the ability to do more advanced stuff later on as i get better?

i have 20 mins of video from my solo girl that i need to chop into segments and watermark.. will it be pretty straight forward to do?

Agree, love Final Cut Pro..Vegas also with PC.

premier 6 IS newbie friendly, AND have the ability to do more advanced stuff later on as you get better

ahh, great :) premier it is then :thumbsup

thanks for the help guys

Why you guys talking about Premiere 6? That was three versions and a few years ago! Premiere Pro 1.5 is the latest and I like it very much. If you are a pc guy teh best is either that or Vegas if you prefer, or the latest Final Cut Pro for the Mac people.

Sony Vegas

yep, final cut pro

Does anyone use Avid?

You got that right. I have been having serious trouble with it.

For simple tasks like that Pinnacle will do. $99

sony vegas 6 also if you want to do hd this is the one to have

Does no-one use Avid? http://www.avid.com This is the most powerfull software going.

We run http://www.avidstore.com/uk/index.cf...roductid=58049
to make DVDs then we use Premier for any web based stuff.

I'd say Avid or Premiere for Editing, and Canopus Procoder hands down to convert between formats.

Thank fuck someone uses Avid! I thought it was one of the industry leaders untill I started doing porn online and found out most people use Premier! Althought I suppose most people on this board arent making DVDs and are merely converting file formats and editing for free hosted galleries and tour samples.

I don't think that's the case. There's a lot of real editing goin on here.

My favorites are:

PC: Vegas Video (much better faster and easier than premiere)

Mac: Final Cut

I use Cleaner for both systems

Final Cut is definitely the better program.

Unless you are making full movies or TV shows I would say Avid is unecessary now a days. Good video production is all about clean edits and transistions with well timed to correlating sound effects, dialogue or music. Anything else is just gravy. All of the software in this thread can do that effectively.

Final Cut Pro. :thumbsup

Adobe Premier....

I doubt many people are actually looking at releasing their content in the DVD, satelite or pay per view (hotels) market though.

Start with Adobe Premier 6.0. Nice newbie program to learn on, and you can do more advanced stuff as you get better. Then bump to Premier 1.5.

It's more stable, and has some extra goodies to play with. I actually use both depending on what I am working with. I've tried other shit over the years, but since using Premiere I'd never go back.

:thumbsup

I use Premiere Pro for serious stuff with Cleaner XL to encode

- Premiere 6.5 for simple quick stuff like next day demos -