Looking to get a new video editing program-whats good?

Question

I have an XPS 420; it has 3gb of ram, a quad core, and runs on a 32 bit operating system. My camera is an HDR SR11. It takes 16 mega pixel per-frame High Definition footage.

Right now, I have Premiere Elements 4...(never use that, its horrific. the stories I could tell.)...So I'm looking for something better, that can handle High def footage, or the converted version, which is just as big, just not in the AVCHD compression format.

My price range is $100 or under. If you don't think it can be done with that, I can wait til Christmas and spend up to $800, and maayyybe $1000. And right now, I'm not ruling out the possibility of upgrading my PC ether...or a whole new PC...but that's a final option.

One program I have seen around is Premiere Elements 7. Is that good? I can do an Amazon search by myself; I just need to hear some suggestions from some people with experience in that area.

If you have any questions about my set up just ask.

Answer 1

Top 5 Video Editing Software

July 16, 2008 by

deepu gollapudi



Power Director, Video editing software from Cyber Link is currently ranked No.1 in the market. It's so easy to use, even a 10 year old can become a professional movie maker from home videos. It offers features such as automated video editing, professional video enhancements and slideshows. There are a large variety of tools are available by default with this software. We can add elements to our photos before we bundle them up and get them ready for video. This tool is the best so far I have come across and also it is very small in the memory occupancy in the system.



2. Ulead Video Studio:

Ulead Video Studio offers video editing and DVD authoring tools to anyone who wants to produce videos that has a professional appeal in it. It allows us to express our creative thoughts with hands-on editing tools. It has awesome support for sharing videos into hand held devices or burning them in to DVDs and blue-ray discs.



3. Pinnacle Studio:

Pinnacle studio is one of the professional looking video editing soft wares. Its new feature called as montage provides many built-in amazing templates that leaves us nothing to do other than just add the files and click on the create video button. This is more like a template based video editing software and offers us less support for manual modifications to our videos of photos.



4. Adobe Premiere Elements:

Premiere Elements software from Adobe gives us the best combination of control and features for our home video editing. It mostly automates all the major functions and hence we are left free to experiment with the transitions, effects, text and adding audio. All the steps starting from Capturing a video in cam coder to burning DVDs are done in a flash. Good software if you want work to be done quickly.

Answer 2

Hi, here are some avchd video editor resommended by cnet software reviewer. and sorry for no link involved (poor reputation and low contribution)



And before you give them a try or estimation, i suggest you give some alternative solution a try. since compare to another hd video format, mkv, AVCHD video is not open source project. it means even the avchd video editor developers need pay high price on it. that is the reason you overdraft for a avchd editor. try to convert avchd m2ts to mkv format, then with proper mkv codec packs installed on your XPS 420, you can edit your avchd recording footage effortlessly.



draw my source from: http://www.winxdvd.com/resource/convert-m2ts-to-mkv.htm



And here is the list for you:

Added 5/6/08: CyberLink PowerDirector 7 Ultra. $119.95; no trial download.



Added 11/15/07: Final Cut Express 4. $199; no trial download. For Intel-based Macs only. As far as I can tell, there's no list of supported models, which bodes well in my mind. Notably, FCE4 can mix HD and SD video on a single timeline, just like its very expensive big brother.



Updated 5/14/08: Sony Vegas Video Movie Studio Platinum Edition. $129.95; 30-day trial download. As of Version 8.0c, Vegas Platinum supports Panasonic and Canon files. I opened a few files to check. Woo hoo! According to the release notes for Version 8.0d, it now supports 1,920x1,080 files, but not for Panasonic.



Updated 6/6/08: Pinnacle Studio Plus 12. $100; no trial download available.



Final Cut Pro 6. $1,299 (part of Final Cut Studio 2); no trial download available, and AVCHD editing requires a Mac Pro with Intel Xeon CPU.



Updated 4/2/2008: Corel Ulead VideoStudio 11.5. $99.99; The current version of VideoStudio now lets you import AVCHD files--it no longer requires the entire directory structure--and author AVCHD discs.



Apple iMovie '08. Apple only supports a few of AVCHD camcorders, however, and even those have a couple of caveats. Here's the current list of supported models.

Answer 3

Are you "sure" your phone won't let you flip the video? I-Phones will let you flip it right on the phone, then export the file onto a computer. Windows Movie Maker has a lot of nice, basic video editing features, but I don't think it can flip or crop. But it "will" let you combine multiple clips, add music, titles, fades, etc. But I'm not sure it will open Mp4 or .Mov files. Good luck, Donk