Comments | dkellis: Getting another video editing program.

dkellis

Getting another video editing program.

Sep 30, 2007 10:57

And by this I mean Non-Linear Editing, as in Adobe Premiere and suchlike ( Read more... )

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kalium September 30 2007, 03:43:42 UTC

I don't think recent versions of Magix have the same issue. You could try asking them, or checking their forums.

dkellis September 30 2007, 04:27:13 UTC

Assuming it does, or if I can't find it here, what other options would you recommend?

kalium September 30 2007, 18:20:38 UTC

Honestly, I'm not familiar with much beyond the three most popular programs: Adobe Premiere, Sony Vegas, and Magix. The first two are well beyond your price point. So, uh, check the software sticky?

dkellis September 30 2007, 19:42:12 UTC

You mean the one in the General Video forum which has a huge list, somewhat outdated, of possible Non-Linear Editing programs, along with price range and manufacturer website and OS and trial availability and no other information whatsoever?

Checked it already.

The update to the post indicates that I am talking about two of the three most popular programs, namely Vegas and Magix. I can't check the Magix forums, because I don't have the email address and password anymore. I asked in #AMV, and got laughed at for not wanting to pirate Premiere. I asked in the forums, and so far the sole reply barely answers the question, choosing instead to go into ungrammatical vagaries which hurts my eyes just reading it.

You will forgive me if I seem a little annoyed.

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balorn September 30 2007, 04:27:48 UTC

I wish I could provide some useful advice, but I've got myself a bit spoiled and biased to video editing that's a bit outside your stated price range... On the PC side of things, though, hmm... may wan to check out this, as AviSynth can be insanely useful for working around limitations of whatever other program(s) you end up using. Technically, AviSynth could be used entirely on its own for editing (Trim(), AlignedSplice(), Dissolve(), etc), but doing more than a few edits could be rather painful.

dkellis September 30 2007, 04:36:14 UTC

One reason I'm probably not going to switch to a Mac any time soon is because I have enough trouble running certain games on Windows. (Hello, Bioshock...)

I'm used to using AviSynth to muck around with sources and clean up footage, but anything more substantial will likely require far more patience and skill than I currently possess. I like having a timeline to plan out my videos.

I've also been using the splice functions of AviSynth to join together all the sub-2GB parts of my Magix Movie Edit Pro 2004 works, but I don't want to have to, since it requires that I have to split everything into one-minute chunks in the first place.

greyduck October 1 2007, 18:20:57 UTC

I can't help much, I'm afraid. Pinnacle Studio 10 came with my new capture board, so that's what I've been fiddling around with.

And by "fiddling around with" I mean "barely looked at because I don't have enough free drive space yet to really start any big projects". I really need to get stuff schlepped over to that new 500GB drive...