Northwest Dive Club

Hey vidiots,

I'm in the market for windows based video editing software. I don't have a mac at work and staying home to edit video on my mini for work has become problematic... as much as I prefer to be in my PJs during working hours.

I would buy a copy of Adobe Premier right away if it wasn't 64 bit only. I'm not ready to upgrade from XP to Win7. Change is hard.

I'm thinking about Avid's Pinnacle Studio... has anyone ever used it before?

Anyone have any thoughts on the matter that isn't "Buy a mac for work and get final cut pro"?

Thanks,

-Eric

I have Magix Hd , that I don't use anymore .. Its a sweet program .. Its does standard 640 Res.. Up to 1080 ..

have you looked at Ulead... I use it as do many of my friends and have always found it rather easy to use (if there is such a thing as an 'easy' video editor!) It's very feature rich and will work very well in a Windoze environment. Magix makes a good one and FWIW I've even used the MS. Movie Maker with some good results.

I recommend Sony Vegas.

I use Vegas Pro Now ... That was my choice over Adobe Premire... Now you could just go Pirate and Black Op sumthng , kinda like useing Limewire or Torrent ..

Sockmonkey wrote:...I'm thinking about Avid's Pinnacle Studio... has anyone ever used it before?...

PapaZ and I use it for our videos. It's got some nice features. Simple to use, but you'll have to buy the effects packages separate (PITA). If your application is for mostly home use, then it will do a decent job....nothing super fancy.
I have had some issues with the software/effects not working correctly. Do a google and see what you come up with. I think the newer versions (10+) are better than 9.

H20doctor wrote:I use Vegas Pro Now ... That was my choice over Adobe Premire... Now you could just go Pirate and Black Op sumthng , kinda like useing Limewire or Torrent ..

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Sony Vegas looks sweet but costs $600... and scares me in the way that final cut does.

The Avid Pinnacle stuffs looks about my speed and is $130.

Thanks everyone... again NWDC comes through with honest answers to stupid (non-diving) related questions.

-Eric

I have Adobe Premier, but for some reason it can't handle the .avi files that my camera creates. I always have to use the media encoder to change them to .wmv before I can edit them in Premier. I'm not crazy about that...

AVS video the only windows video software I found which can work in .mov format native.
http://www.avs4you.com/AVS-Video-Editor.aspx

Oh and it was cheap

CaptnJack wrote:AVS video the only windows video software I found which can work in .mov format native.
http://www.avs4you.com/AVS-Video-Editor.aspx

Oh and it was cheap

My new casio saves videos in .MOV and I haven't found a good solution. I just downloaded a trial of this software, hoping, that it would be able to work with the .MOV files, but, I just tried to import a couple of them and they all threw back an unknown error.

Dang!

coachrenz wrote:

CaptnJack wrote:AVS video the only windows video software I found which can work in .mov format native.
http://www.avs4you.com/AVS-Video-Editor.aspx

Oh and it was cheap

My new casio saves videos in .MOV and I haven't found a good solution. I just downloaded a trial of this software, hoping, that it would be able to work with the .MOV files, but, I just tried to import a couple of them and they all threw back an unknown error.

Dang!

works for me, not sure why you're having issues

CaptnJack wrote:
works for me, not sure why you're having issues

Who else thinks that Richard has a button that pastes that phrase in most of his posts?

-Eric

Sockmonkey wrote:

CaptnJack wrote:
works for me, not sure why you're having issues

Who else thinks that Richard has a button that pastes that phrase in most of his posts?

-Eric

Spatty set it up for me special, works on all the boards

AH mr Norris ... How funny you are ... Good thing you guided me down the straight Path ..