Video Editing Software

chobopeon

United States7342 Posts

September 05 2010 02:06 GMT

I do the SC Center Daily. I use Camtasia to do the editing there - problem is, Camtasia sucks. But the even bigger problem is that the free trial just ran out and I'm not spending $299 on that shitty program!

So, what video editing software can you guys recommend? I can spend a bit but not hundreds. If I do spend, I'd like to test it out.

If it's freeware, great. Any recommendations?

Thanks in advance!

(as soon as I decide on a new program, I will have the latest SC Center episode out)

Kinky

United States4126 Posts

September 05 2010 02:12 GMT

I think you can try a trial of Adobe Premiere CS5 somewhere. It does come at a hefty price though :/
Trial here https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=premiere_pro

Terrakin

United States1440 Posts

September 05 2010 02:27 GMT

If you got a mac, def download Final Cut Pro, or if you want to support them buy Final Cut Lite

also what types of things do you need from your editing program?

BamBam

745 Posts

September 05 2010 02:30 GMT

Well, it depends. Adobe is 'OK', and it does have a lot of nifty stuff associated with it, but as a original montage and film maker for video games, I personally found sony vegas to be the best video editing software, and you dont even need to get the latest and greatest, heck even sony vegas 7.0 (Which is about 70 bucks compared to vegas 9 at 600) has a lot of advanced stuff you can do along with countless tutorials (honestly, only thing different between 7 and 9 is GUI and some additional though not required features).

But of course it really does depend on what exactly you want to do. If its just importing recorded film with audio overlay, you could just get away with using windows movie maker (free). Just dont expect any of the fancy additional stuff that other video editing software has

Creek

United States177 Posts

September 05 2010 02:34 GMT

Um.
www.utorrent.com -- client

www.thepiratebay.org
you might be able to download the "trial" there.

BamBam

745 Posts

September 05 2010 02:35 GMT

On September 05 2010 11:34 Creek wrote:
Um.
www.utorrent.com -- client

www.thepiratebay.org
you might be able to download the "trial" there.

Excuse me, but Teamliquid.net does not endorse nor approve of any form of "pirating" and such information is best left out from the public view.

Glider

United States1348 Posts

September 05 2010 02:36 GMT

sony vegas, it's simple to learn and pretty powerful. Not as powerful as premier but enough for almost everything.

Creek

United States177 Posts

September 05 2010 02:36 GMT

It's not pirating, there are legitimate copies of the trial on that website.
The fact you assume i'm telling him to get an illegal copy of the program is absurd, i'd never pirate in my life.

Assault_1

Canada1950 Posts

September 05 2010 02:58 GMT

sony vegas.. i've looked into this stuff before, and used premiere for a while.. vegas is best

motbob

United States12546 Posts

September 05 2010 03:29 GMT

#10

Without pirating, you won't find a single decent video editor for cheap. Just saying.

bjornkavist

Canada1235 Posts

September 05 2010 03:35 GMT

#11

Try Pinnacle Video Spin, I believe you can use that for free for a time, its not very powerful but it could get the job done

wooozy

3813 Posts

September 05 2010 04:17 GMT

#12

I use Sony Vegas Pro 9 and it's great.

QuickStriker

United States3694 Posts

September 05 2010 04:57 GMT

#13

Like many others said, I definitely recommend Final Cut Pro if you have a mac (find a way to get one for free...) or Sony Vegas Pro 9 which I have for windows (which you can definitely get for free.... easy to get too.......).

But that's all I can say, you gotta really try out different editing programs and see what works for you. Good luck!

udgnim

United States8024 Posts

September 05 2010 05:23 GMT

#14

I think Sony Vegas has 4 versions of its software and you can have a 1 month free trial with each version

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