Editing Help

[Chaseh]

I posted the follow in the permanant sticky thread, but it can be slow going there.

Please supply any insight you may have for basic software.

"I just got a Sony HC-7, which is high-def. I'd like to be able to cut what I record and add music. What's going to be my best bets, and is this going to require a very sophisticated system?

I don't need to produce professional quality films, but I would like to maintain the high definition quality.

I'm looking at Vegas Movie Studio +DVD 7 Plat Edition (LB). Is this the right direction for me, and will a decent quality late model home cpu going to be able to power it?"

Thanks for the assist.

 

[PerroneFord]

Vegas is very high end, and you CAN produce professional film/video with it. I've moved away from Premiere to Vegas for nearly everything now. It has a learning curve, and it has some quirky features, but I can now knock out basic projects fairly quickly, and it supports a LOT of different kinds of video.

It's not as power hungry as some other software editing suites, but it WILL use everything you give it including multiple CPUs in the same machine or multiple machines on the network.

I highly recommend it if you are willing to take the time to LEARN to use it. An author by the name of Douglas Spotted Eagle, writes the definitive books on learning to use Vegas. It plenty of examples, a nice DVD with all kinds of goodies, tutorials, and sample material.

Though I don't shoot hi-def, I will be moving that way, and Vegas makes it plug-n-play. It also fully supports 24p, multiple framing, various audio formats including mp3 and wav, etc.

The DVD software is very nice and does a great job. There are other software packages out there that are more robust if you want to produce film level DVD's but for the home shooter, it's perfectly adequate.

I do 10-12 long-form projects a year for work (meaning over 2 hours of finished video) and recommend this product.

 

[wilbkr1]

I use the Ulead Products. ULEAD Easy to use with great tools. It does everything I need it to do and more. I use it to edit my video from my HC3.


Stay Wet

William