Good movie editing software?

What is good movie editing software to split, merge, etc. videos?

Final Cut Pro. If you are on Windows, your best bet is probably Adobe Premiere.

Is it easy to use, I just want to cut movies and merge with other clips and maybe have a fade out effect, adobe premier seems too professional for simple stuff like that.

If you want simple, but effective, just use Windows Movie maker 2.

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Well, " good" and " easy" aren' t synonymous when talking about such applications. The good apps become easy after you use them and learn them, though. I, for one, find Final Cut Pro a helluva lot easier than something like iMovie (which I have zero patience for).

Final Cut Pro. If you are on Windows, your best bet is probably Adobe Premiere.

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If they' re out of your price range, the program I currently use is Pinnacle Studio 11. You can get it for a little over $100 OR even less than $100 depending on the package you go for. It' s pretty easy to split video clips, merge them, do transition effects and all that jazz. It' s easy enough so even grandparents can use it. I don' t know if any trial/demo versions of the programs are available.

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I tried using Windows Movie Maker and it crashed while splitting a movie, LOL.

Vegas is really good as far as being powerful, while having very intuitive controls.

I never cared for Vegas. Although I really don' t care for Premiere Pro either, I' d take it over Vegas. Probably costs a lot more, though. Oh well, I' m glad I' m living in Final Cut Pro' s world so it' s really not an issue.

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Final Cut Pro. If you are on Windows, your best bet is probably Adobe Premiere.

The man speaketh teh gospel!!


If they' re out of your price range, the program I currently use is Pinnacle Studio 11. You can get it for a little over $100 OR even less than $100 depending on the package you go for. It' s pretty easy to split video clips, merge them, do transition effects and all that jazz. It' s easy enough so even grandparents can use it. I don' t know if any trial/demo versions of the programs are available.

I' m gonna try that

Let' s see if you can use it without making it crash, moron.

(Just giving you a taste of your own medicine).

If only simple features are needed, look up Virtualdub. It' s free and I use it for a lot of simpler tasks. Re-encoding and just cutting things then.

Vegas there is also nice for some audio recording actually besides the main video part.

Who edits video on machines running Windows?

Someone who wants to edit their gay porn I guess, isn' t that right Emofag!!!!!

I dont like to edit my gayporn becuase I like to get the most of it!

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Who edits video on machines running Windows?

I do, windows VISTA no less, to add insult to injury.

Vegas there is also nice for some audio recording actually besides the main video part.

That' s true, I actually use Vegas primarily for audio multitracking!

For video I use Final Cut Pro, After Effects, Premiere, Shake, Motion, Vegas, whatever the job requires. I don' t get into the Mac vs. PC arguments, they are both irritating platforms in different ways.

I can' t even figure out Shake. That thing is bizarre.

Yeah, I hated Shake at first, but eventually something clicked and now I love it. It' s really primarily designed for really high-resolution compositing, for 35mm film. That' s what they used on the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I mainly use it for compositing layers rendered out from Maya for NTSC, which already have perfectly clean mattes.

Is it an After Effects type of thing? The GUI is so different than any of Apple' s stuff I couldn' t really tell what it did. Personally I like After Effects unless I need some particle or smoke rendering, then I use Motion.

Yeah, it was originally developed by Nothing Real and then bought by Apple, so it doesn' t have an Apple-style interface to it. It could be compared to After Effects, but like I said, Shake is optimized to be pushing around absolutely gigantic (pixel-wise) feature film images. The main difference in the interface between the two is that After Effects and most other packages, like Final Cut, are timeline-based. Shake is node-based, so you' re building scripts visually by connecting the outputs and inputs of nodes, and each node has its own timeline within. So for example, you could have your source images and connect their output to an opacity node, and within the opacity node you would open up its timeline and set keyframes to fade it in or out. It' s just a bit of a conceptual difference in the interface, but I think the scripting structure of Shake is one aspect which gives it greater capabilities than other compositing software.

At this point I believe Shake has been discontinued and is going to be replaced by something currently called Phenomenon.

Digital intermediates for real movies are usually within the 2K realm (2,000 pixels horizontally, barely more than 1080p HDTV). That' s not too big, though back in the day when Shake was developed it sure was. Films that care about image quality have their digital intermediates scanned in at 4k resolution. I wish that were standard. Most DLP projectors at movie theaters are only 2K these days, though... so film still wins if the movie was scanned at 4k or didn' t have a digital intermediate.

If you see it while the film is new film wins, but its quality gets pretty bad after a while.

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Only if you have a crappy projection booth staff who don' t know their heads from their ass (which is likely the case at most theaters). The longest film I' ve personally played is My Big Fat Greek Wedding which had 5 shows a day every day for well over 6 months straight. The film left without a single scratch, speck of dirt, missing frames, etc. If you run a professional booth, you get professional results... but most theaters these days have either the assistant managers running the show or some hastily trained concession stand monkey.