OT: Video Editing Software

[Meanie]

Anyone do video editing and can recommend a good software? Preferably free, but I'm willing to pay something for a good program.

Thanks

[Tony Hwang]

Hi, You need more than Windows media center?

[makolber]

Right Start with windows movie maker, and go from there if you need more.

Mark

[makolber]

Right Start with windows movie maker, and go from there if you need more.

Mark

[Shadow]

Depends what you are going to do with it. Cut/join/convert/audio/special effects/muxing/subtitles ? Figure out what you need first .... []'s

[Meanie]

I actually have Movie Maker and and old version of Coral Video Studio. I like the Coral for a few reasons but one in particular is when I need a snapshot from a video, frame advancement can be done per second. Movie Maker advances every few seconds and I often get one of the blurred video snapshots. Coral has been working well enough for me but today I couldn't save a frame as a still image and I have no idea why. I became frustrated when I had to print screen to save an image and started thinking about a newer program.

Overall, I do cutting, joining videos though sometimes with a spacer sometimes blending and sometimes throwing in an image, date display, sometimes subtitles, though never audio. Audio is always omitted. I need several format saving options as well as a variety of format acceptance. Generally basic stuff but part of me would like some features just in case. I was thinking of just sticking with Coral, but I have nothing to compare it to (other than Movie Maker) but as it ages, it will become more difficult to work with newer technology.

[Meanie]

I also forgot to add, one feature which is often important is the possibility to reduce camera shaking. Movie Maker has Video Stabilization but it's not full proof.

[Tony Hwang]

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