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Best Video Editing Software
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Well, Movie Maker is free. 
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Working in a professional environment with video editing, my top two favorites are Edius by Canopus, and Adobe Premiere Pro. Those cost some money though, and I consider them the best after working with many editing applications. If you don't want to spend money, Windows Movie Maker is free.
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I have used Avid Xpress DV, and its another pretty good editing software. The thing that I hate about it though is it dumps all your audio/video into a single OMFI directory which makes it really hard to manage. When you import footage, it has to reencode to OMF and can take forever. (don't know if they changed this since I've used it)
Vegas is just too newb feeling for me. It does have a very easy learning curve, but you don't have control over your edits as much. There is a very limited tool palette as well. But, the software is pretty stable.
Adobe Premiere Pro is just great. There are tons of 3rd party plugins and hardware support. Editing your footage is super easy, but you can get as technical as you want. You can do precise edits and easy renderless motion control. There are tons of effects, especially if you integrate it with hardware such as the matrox rt.x100 or similar capture device that comes with its own software and additional effects. However, I found Premiere to 'crash' pretty often or just hang. I'm only running it with the rt.x100 on one of my edit suites.
The product I recommend most of all is Edius by Canopus. We recently redid 3 of our Non-Linear Editors with Canopus' Edius Pro 3. (now 4 is out, very similar) We have people working on them all day from 7am to 4pm, and we might only get a small handful of lockups a month. The interface of the program is just so easy to use and very advanced. You can create motion control scenes even easier than in Adobe, the Chromakey is the cleanest Chromakey I've ever seen generated by software (even cleaner than our Globalstreams Trinity), importing any type footage is painless, and no rendering is required when you want to do any of your effects. Also, the Title Motion Pro title program is amazing. I've created professional broadcast quality animated 3D lower 3rds and title pages in just a few minutes. The batch capture function built into Edius is great too. Just set all your in/out points for your DV tape, and it will go back and capture everything automatically for you and put it in your specified bin folder for your project. I always had trouble getting Adobe's batch capture to work correctly. Edius also came with Procoder which lets you export your timeline to whatever you want.. HD, Divx, avi, mpg, tape, etc. It can also re-encode just about any footage you want. Also, as of right now, Edius is the only edit software you can just drag and drop AVCHD footage into without re-encoding.
Anyhow, I could go on forever about how great Edius is... that is pretty much the only edit software I'd recommend at the moment. Adobe is a close 2nd, but I've had too many problems to recommend it. Avid and Vegas are just too simple in most respects and don't offer the right combination of features or support I'd like.
Vegas is just too newb feeling for me. It does have a very easy learning curve, but you don't have control over your edits as much. There is a very limited tool palette as well. But, the software is pretty stable.
Adobe Premiere Pro is just great. There are tons of 3rd party plugins and hardware support. Editing your footage is super easy, but you can get as technical as you want. You can do precise edits and easy renderless motion control. There are tons of effects, especially if you integrate it with hardware such as the matrox rt.x100 or similar capture device that comes with its own software and additional effects. However, I found Premiere to 'crash' pretty often or just hang. I'm only running it with the rt.x100 on one of my edit suites.
The product I recommend most of all is Edius by Canopus. We recently redid 3 of our Non-Linear Editors with Canopus' Edius Pro 3. (now 4 is out, very similar) We have people working on them all day from 7am to 4pm, and we might only get a small handful of lockups a month. The interface of the program is just so easy to use and very advanced. You can create motion control scenes even easier than in Adobe, the Chromakey is the cleanest Chromakey I've ever seen generated by software (even cleaner than our Globalstreams Trinity), importing any type footage is painless, and no rendering is required when you want to do any of your effects. Also, the Title Motion Pro title program is amazing. I've created professional broadcast quality animated 3D lower 3rds and title pages in just a few minutes. The batch capture function built into Edius is great too. Just set all your in/out points for your DV tape, and it will go back and capture everything automatically for you and put it in your specified bin folder for your project. I always had trouble getting Adobe's batch capture to work correctly. Edius also came with Procoder which lets you export your timeline to whatever you want.. HD, Divx, avi, mpg, tape, etc. It can also re-encode just about any footage you want. Also, as of right now, Edius is the only edit software you can just drag and drop AVCHD footage into without re-encoding.
Anyhow, I could go on forever about how great Edius is... that is pretty much the only edit software I'd recommend at the moment. Adobe is a close 2nd, but I've had too many problems to recommend it. Avid and Vegas are just too simple in most respects and don't offer the right combination of features or support I'd like.
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lol, Vegas is pretty much a backward step from Adobe Premiere.. Why would you do that?
I would use virtualdub. It isn''t as friendly as other software, but it allows great control over the results.
http://virtualdub.org
http://virtualdub.org