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I don't think Sony Vegas has all of those requirements, but I recommend it.

Last edited by kimmy123 (2011-07-11 11:55:19)

Adobe After Effects is really good

Harakou wrote:

I use Sony Vegas Platinum 9. (The newest version is 11 though.) It's very good for intermediate video editing and not too expensive either. If you want to go all out for the best possible editor out there, Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 is the ultimate option, but also very expensive. Personally, I recommend Vegas unless you really need the best of the best.

Thanks.

Movie Maker can grow with you with plugins.

Greenscreen, compositing, etc.

Sanddude, thanks for putting this topic up, it's gonna help me too! 

Try Sony Vegas, that's the one that I'm gonna try 

Last edited by Albertt911 (2011-07-11 14:46:25)

For anyone looking to try out Vegas, Sony offers a free trial here.

SpriteMaster wrote:

Harakou wrote:

I use Sony Vegas Platinum 9. (The newest version is 11 though.) It's very good for intermediate video editing and not too expensive either. If you want to go all out for the best possible editor out there, Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 is the ultimate option, but also very expensive. Personally, I recommend Vegas unless you really need the best of the best.

How much $$$$?

Around $100.

I do all my video editing on a Mac  (iMovie) and everything else on movie maker but if you can spare the money - andything by Adobe is good. 

bUMp

eventexception wrote:

I wonder nobody discusses using freeware for video editing.

This has the advantage if you come back in two or three years to reedit your videos
everything still works as you have been used to. In some years your operating system changes, and so does the bundled video software.

Run a google search with:
top free gnu video editor for windows 64 bit

Mostly because (at least from my experience) most freeware editors are little better than WMM and constantly bother you to buy a full version.

SpriteMaster wrote:

Harakou wrote:

I use Sony Vegas Platinum 9. (The newest version is 11 though.) It's very good for intermediate video editing and not too expensive either. If you want to go all out for the best possible editor out there, Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 is the ultimate option, but also very expensive. Personally, I recommend Vegas unless you really need the best of the best.

How much $$$$?

I see my name was mentioned     

Anyway, try Sony vegas or the  Adobe pro one 

I use Adobe After Effects CS5, It is confusing at first but you can find plenty of tutorials online to get you started, there are some very good after effects tutorials at www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/. once you get the hang of it you can do color correction, explosions, or pretty much anything you want as far as editing goes. I would also recommend Adobe Premiere, its good for cuting and putting together your video. While After Effects is better for editing the indvidual scenes, you put everything together in Premiere. Adobe software is always pretty pricey we got the whole Adobe pruduction Premium pack for 250$ on sale.

If you are willing to spend the money it is the best off the shelf software out there(my opinion).

Last edited by Targethero (2011-07-18 08:54:47)