Whats the best movie editor?

Pwn-Rikku · Post by **Pwn-Rikku** » November 26th, 2005, 3:26 pm

Whats the best movie editor.. i seen loads of movies made with windows movie maker.. but i think that plain sucks.
anyone no any good ones.. i may make a movie

Post by **Soviet** » November 26th, 2005, 4:20 pm

ill get back to you on that...ill try to do a bit of research today

Luke · Post by **Luke** » November 26th, 2005, 4:42 pm

sony vegas is good apparently

Post by **Pedsdude** » November 27th, 2005, 1:23 pm

Yeah... I used Windows Movie Maker for my PK vid and it absolutely sucks - it crashes every 5 minutes. The annoying thing is that it's the only easy one to use if you know nothing about video editing.

Some good movie editing programs are Ulead Media Studio Pro 7 and Sony Vegas, although they are quite technical, so you may have a bit of trouble learning how to use them if you're inexperienced (I don't know how to use them yet, although I'm too busy to find out how at the moment).

Grom · Post by **Grom** » November 27th, 2005, 2:38 pm

I have to agree with Luke, Vegas is a great program. Not so very difficult either, but hard enough for unexperienced users.
Apple iMovie though, is some piece of crap. We use it at school, and it's a pain to use

Tonttu · Post by **Tonttu** » November 27th, 2005, 3:16 pm

Pinnacle Studio 10 looked really good for editing the only bad thing was that it couldn't open fraps videos or do MPEG-4 encoding and even decoding at least without paying for a serial to a plugin/advanced features. Best thing about it was that it had really good flash tutorial that covered all the basic features and most of the advanced features.

Currently I'm using Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5. It's been really good for editing allthough it's hard to use at the beginning because it doesn't have good tutorial but you can find everything in the help files. Best thing about it is that you don't have to pay for MPEG-4 or MP3 support. It also supports High Definition video with HDV plugin which is free and will be installed on the patch 1.5.1
I noticed that it has little problems saving uncompressed video, audio and video becomes little "laggy" and out of sync but it can be corrected easy with VirtualDub and VirtualDubMod using these simple steps:
1. Use VirtualDubMod to extract the audio to WAV from the video
2. Compress the WAV to MP3
3. Use VirtualDub to compress the video without audio
4. Use VirtualDubMod to multiplex the audio in the video

In my opinion using video editor to compress the video doesn't give as good result and options to choose from than using some program that is made mainly for compressing like VirtualDub. It gives much more control over the compressing process than the editor, like batch compressing so I can start to compress many videos and go to sleep and wait untill it's finished.

I also prefer more to open source codecs like XviD than closed source codecs like DivX.

As for Sony Vegas I haven't used it and I guess I'll never use it because after this I'm not going to buy any Sony products

Pwn-Rikku · Post by **Pwn-Rikku** » November 27th, 2005, 7:35 pm

thnx and a good explaination.. i also use WAX... its soooo confusing.. but it sometimes gets the job done.
with all this drag and drop then blah.. i wont go into it.

nadist · Post by **nadist** » December 4th, 2005, 6:04 pm

i use adobe premiere 6.5
at first it was tough but after about 2 or 3 nooby movies, i got the hang of it
i still dont know how to fade out audio tho......

its a good program and theres no lag during playback like WMM. and it doesnt take an hour to save your movie (2-3 mins)

Pwn-Rikku · Post by **Pwn-Rikku** » December 5th, 2005, 5:35 pm

i got adove premiere 6 LE

Bagration · Post by **Bagration** » December 6th, 2005, 3:38 pm

Vegas 6.0 - Difficult but very good software, its NOT free for download.

http://www.moviemakers.nu
http://www.style-productions.com

For free tutorials.

Pwn-Rikku · Post by **Pwn-Rikku** » December 7th, 2005, 8:24 pm

bagatron?? .. LOL hes back posting??!?! my gosh.and it wasnt an offensive post!

woCooM · Post by **woCooM** » December 8th, 2005, 12:15 pm

lol
i always use Ulead Media Studio Pro 7, but i havent been arsed in a long long time (since BF1942)

i dont even have the fraps codec for it yet :p so it goes to show how bothered i am :p

Pwn-Rikku · Post by **Pwn-Rikku** » December 8th, 2005, 7:38 pm

lol

im happy now i had to move 500mb to my d drive to burn a disk. NASTY and now its working. thats why im happy

apollo · Post by **apollo** » December 10th, 2005, 9:32 pm

one question iam trying to make a movie with windows movie maker but how do I import the demos , i dont know how ,,

my question : how can I get my demos in windows movie maker

woCooM · Post by **woCooM** » December 10th, 2005, 9:41 pm

you have to record the demos using a program like Fraps

http://www.fraps.com