KMcCallister
EF3
I also use Pinnacle Studio software. Best I've found so far in that "under $50" price class I live in.
Video editing software
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fplowman
i did forget to mention the Mac product.. andi must say.. many film producers use this product.. some would argue.. Avid or FCP... same as they would Mac and Pc.. again though I go to stability.. Mac and FCP have their own cult following.. but their minds are somewhat closed as the Mac sort are very loyal and somewhat lil' wine sippers.. Im diggin at you mac owners 
Find someone who uses FCP and ask them.. any crashes using your system/? Why is that important?? Editing is somewhat mindnumbingly tedious.. so if we have been working on a project since noon and its 9 pm well and it crashes.. it creates a lot of problems..
I can do anything you can do in FCP better and cheaper in Vegas.. again the audio apps are second to none.. Your right Sheila.. i guess i am professing like a religion.. lol.. Just cant say enough good things about this app
K Mcallister is correct
if you folks are looking for a cheap editor pinnacle and ulead make products on the lower end side..
Find someone who uses FCP and ask them.. any crashes using your system/? Why is that important?? Editing is somewhat mindnumbingly tedious.. so if we have been working on a project since noon and its 9 pm well and it crashes.. it creates a lot of problems..
I can do anything you can do in FCP better and cheaper in Vegas.. again the audio apps are second to none.. Your right Sheila.. i guess i am professing like a religion.. lol.. Just cant say enough good things about this app
K Mcallister is correct
if you folks are looking for a cheap editor pinnacle and ulead make products on the lower end side..
Joey Ketcham
Video editing is about the only thing MAC's are good for, thankfully the MAC user I work with doesn't come here 
but in all honesty, when it does come to video editing I would take a MAC and FCP over a desktop running XP.
When the station I use to work for finally equipped the editing booths with Mac's and FCP, I spent the following weekend teaching myself how to use it, and after that I used it as much as I could. I loved it compared to linear (deck to deck) editing.
I was one of the few that used it, most were intimidated by it or complained that it took too long... I remember reporters and I getting into it cause they were like "it's too slow" and I was like "yeah if you don't know how to use it and don't know what you're doing". Oh how I miss those days.. lol.
My Toshiba laptop has Premiere on it and it has a built in firewire card so I do all my editing on my laptop.
but in all honesty, when it does come to video editing I would take a MAC and FCP over a desktop running XP.When the station I use to work for finally equipped the editing booths with Mac's and FCP, I spent the following weekend teaching myself how to use it, and after that I used it as much as I could. I loved it compared to linear (deck to deck) editing.
I was one of the few that used it, most were intimidated by it or complained that it took too long... I remember reporters and I getting into it cause they were like "it's too slow" and I was like "yeah if you don't know how to use it and don't know what you're doing". Oh how I miss those days.. lol.
My Toshiba laptop has Premiere on it and it has a built in firewire card so I do all my editing on my laptop.
As far as macs go iMovie is also decent editing software....VERY easy to use....and best of all it already comes preinstalled on most of the newer macs. But if it isn't it can be downloaded it for free.
I think that people starting out should stay away from the expensive, professional grade software like Premiere and FCP....especially if all they want to do is add titles and music to their video. The cheaper options out there can do that too. Unless you edit video for a living it's unlikely you're going to ever use most of the features the more elaborate software like Premiere and FCP have.
As for software crashes - really that shouldn't be much of a problem as long as you save your work on a frequent basis. It is always a good idea to save your project several times per hour no matter what type of software you are using.
I think that people starting out should stay away from the expensive, professional grade software like Premiere and FCP....especially if all they want to do is add titles and music to their video. The cheaper options out there can do that too. Unless you edit video for a living it's unlikely you're going to ever use most of the features the more elaborate software like Premiere and FCP have.
As for software crashes - really that shouldn't be much of a problem as long as you save your work on a frequent basis. It is always a good idea to save your project several times per hour no matter what type of software you are using.
Mike Hollingshead
For the cheap end... If you come down to Ulead or Pinnacle, go with Pinnacle and save yourself a few headaches. One thing I really don't like about Pinnacle though is when you do a slow-mo clip you can see grids in your video. Other then that I think it does PLENTY, unless of course you want to add flying cows singing and spitting tornado videos out of their mouth. Or you have video of WF and you want to flip flop him back and forth with an image of Dorthy. I guess maybe I should mention one thing. I imagine with those high priced solutions you have much nicer control over video adjustments like contrast, saturation, etc, then you would with Pinnacle. I myself want a nicer solution just for the slo-mos and for the level adjusting I'd love to do to my POS video quality I get from my little mini-dv.
Back to the cheap two. I could not get Ulead video studio to capture in either full dv or mpeg 2. It would capture a few frames, drop a few, over and over. I have a 900mghz processor, and 512mb or ram with all other programs shut down. I was using fire wire. I was told over and over it should be capturing just fine. Re-installed....same problem. One day for the heck of it I picked up Pinnacle 8. I changed nada on my puter. It worked like a champ. I don't drop ANY frames let alone 35% of them using Pinnacle and having changed nothing. I realize for most of us without deep pockets it will come down to probably those two. Go with Pinnacle.
Mike
Back to the cheap two. I could not get Ulead video studio to capture in either full dv or mpeg 2. It would capture a few frames, drop a few, over and over. I have a 900mghz processor, and 512mb or ram with all other programs shut down. I was using fire wire. I was told over and over it should be capturing just fine. Re-installed....same problem. One day for the heck of it I picked up Pinnacle 8. I changed nada on my puter. It worked like a champ. I don't drop ANY frames let alone 35% of them using Pinnacle and having changed nothing. I realize for most of us without deep pockets it will come down to probably those two. Go with Pinnacle.
Mike
fplowman
Good info Mike,
Im much more of a higher end user I guess and lost focus of the whole picture.. Not everyone here wants to make a motion picture or a documentary.. pinnacle I am sure would be a great product for those on a budget although they make products they market to the higher end user.. Like edition and liquid..
I will mention one more thing though. Sony media blaster is a dumbed down version of vegas.. It does alot of what Vegas does but doesnt have some of the higher end apps. ie color correcting.. etc.. It can be had at Best buy and will be rock steady.. key point. i wholeheartedly recommend it over any other product in the low end.. simply cause its vegas lite with the same rock solid performance. I think it is right under 100$ hope that helps..
Im much more of a higher end user I guess and lost focus of the whole picture.. Not everyone here wants to make a motion picture or a documentary.. pinnacle I am sure would be a great product for those on a budget although they make products they market to the higher end user.. Like edition and liquid..
I will mention one more thing though. Sony media blaster is a dumbed down version of vegas.. It does alot of what Vegas does but doesnt have some of the higher end apps. ie color correcting.. etc.. It can be had at Best buy and will be rock steady.. key point. i wholeheartedly recommend it over any other product in the low end.. simply cause its vegas lite with the same rock solid performance. I think it is right under 100$ hope that helps..
Mike Hollingshead
Need hard drive space?
http://www.compusa.com/products/product_in...9477&pfp=BROWSE
A terabyte!?!? I'm finding my 30 gigs internal and 40 gigs external is simply far from enough. I think I'll get me a 1000 gig drive. I wish anyway.
http://www.compusa.com/products/product_in...9477&pfp=BROWSE
A terabyte!?!? I'm finding my 30 gigs internal and 40 gigs external is simply far from enough. I think I'll get me a 1000 gig drive. I wish anyway.
Bill Hamilton
EF5
How SWEET that would be! Talk about storage for storm videos and pics!
fplowman
180 Gig Western Digital with 8 meg of cache can be had pretty cheap now.. OEM is like $1 per GIG.. maybe even less now.. That would work right nicely as a video storage HD.. however the firewire or USB2 external storage options are very tempting.. this allows me to do many things.. it for one makes my project portable.. Say i want to go to the sound studio.. I can take my project there.. Or say I wanted to capture through firewire from Camera to laptop to that attached drive and have essentialy 6 or 8 hours of video storage.. WOW! Say i work with my desktop at home and my laptop on the road.. i can take and edit on my laptop while waiting for a plane etc...
Say im a storm chaser (you guys can relate) lol..and sell footage and want to be able to use the storage to capture and edit on the fly and upload to a server with WIFI while sitting at the truck stop.. the possibilities are endless.. Isnt it great to be alive and see all this technology
Say im a storm chaser (you guys can relate) lol..and sell footage and want to be able to use the storage to capture and edit on the fly and upload to a server with WIFI while sitting at the truck stop.. the possibilities are endless.. Isnt it great to be alive and see all this technology
Eric Flescher
EF5
video editing DVD and CD
For pcs I hear NERO is really good for CDs. Also the Mac Titanium Toast which does DVD and CD burning and more also has a pc version CD Create.
I use my powerbook g3 and my Imac flatpanel g4 with my Imovie 4 and am trying out Final Cut express which has an amazing amount more of flexibility (that I don't even know where to start).
In 2001 I videoedited all my 2001 eclipse movie and tour with Imovie and my laptop before I got the Imac.
I am presently using iDVD which is great to do MPEG. I am currently trying to learn more about "nesting" the DVD menus and making a better menus, scenes and more. Imovie actually will actualy let you you encode the stop scenes in your movie so that it can be used as a different part of the menu.
So far so good
Dr.Eric Flescher ([email protected]),Olathe, KS -Storm Satori-http://members.aol.com/kcstormguy/stormsatori/stormsatori.htm
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For pcs I hear NERO is really good for CDs. Also the Mac Titanium Toast which does DVD and CD burning and more also has a pc version CD Create.
I use my powerbook g3 and my Imac flatpanel g4 with my Imovie 4 and am trying out Final Cut express which has an amazing amount more of flexibility (that I don't even know where to start).
In 2001 I videoedited all my 2001 eclipse movie and tour with Imovie and my laptop before I got the Imac.
I am presently using iDVD which is great to do MPEG. I am currently trying to learn more about "nesting" the DVD menus and making a better menus, scenes and more. Imovie actually will actualy let you you encode the stop scenes in your movie so that it can be used as a different part of the menu.
So far so good
Dr.Eric Flescher ([email protected]),Olathe, KS -Storm Satori-http://members.aol.com/kcstormguy/stormsatori/stormsatori.htm
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