Video editing software

[Revo]

Howdy,

I've just started getting into making videos of car related events.

just wondering what good video editing software I should check out?

dont want somthing that will need years of training to learn just somthing thats nice to use and can do things like speed certain segments up, add backing music and any other cool things :P

[GetCarter]

If you are on a PC you have Windows Movie Maker on your hard disk. It'll do 99% of what you want and is piss easy to use.

[Revo]

I tried movie maker but it has a habbit of crashing randomly

[VxDuncan]

GetCarter said:

If you are on a PC you have Windows Movie Maker on your hard disk. It'll do 99% of what you want and is piss easy to use.

+1 , thought it is quite cumbersome to use if you're chopping clips around etc. Very good for basic editing if all your source material is the same size (resolution) though.

Microsoft also do a Windows Media extension tool (can't remember what it's called though!), that is great for converting all kinds of formats to windows media player file formats (.wmv / .wma etc). Will also resize and compress as required. I used it recently for hacking some kpeg4 files ripped of a DVD for a promo video.

[Revo]

actually yeah cuz the camera I'm getting records to DVD files, .vob I think. I doubt movie maker will import those

[cs174]

If Windows Movie Maker is not for you, try Pinnacle Studio.

cs174

[nsa]

Sony Vegas Pro 8 is very good, but I think any video editing software takes a while to get to know. It's about £400 but you can download a 30 day free trial, or I've heard that the torrent websites like Vuze.com have copies on there.

[sevros1981]

If you try a retailer such as PlanetPC (www.planetdv.net), who will probably have some second hand, or older versions of software such as Adobe Premiere Pro.