What Is Some Good Video Editing Software

[White-Lightning]

Hey Guys
As the title says, what is some good video editing software? I know there are some threads on this but seeing as it is quite a long time since they were first written I figured that some new technology has come out and they will not be very relevant? I'm looking for some good quality software to edit riding videos as at the moment I have been using windows movie maker which isn't very inspiring to be honest. It also needs to be able to publish to a decent quality though I do realize that this will probably be relate to the price that I spend?

so any ideas? I have heard that Sony Vegas is pretty good?

oh, also I'm running vista on the laptop.

cheers

[Conners]

I use Vegas for all my stuff, it's pretty wicked. Takes a while to get your head around some things (I'm talking compositing and stuff like that, just chopping clips together is a piece of piss), but it's one of those things that the more you put into it the more you get out. I'm on Vegas 7 on XP, version 8 is the most recent and would no doubt be the go for Vista.

Never used Premiere so can't comment on that, but heard good things.

If I didn't have any experience with either I'd be tracking down a free demo of both and trying them out for yourself.

[ThingOne]

The latest version of Premiere is pretty much professional level video editting, you can do almost anything, however its very complicated, I have the hang on the basics, but you will need a decent PC to make it run properly, I have an 8 core cpu with 6gb ram and its great for it.
Very expensive if you decide to ahhem purchase it.

I wish that the movie maker in windows vista worked, I can never get it to render a movie properly, its just flaky, but if it did work would be good for most things as its simple to use.

[danose]

The latest version of Premiere is pretty much professional level video editting, you can do almost anything

yep - premiere pro is great, but has a BIG learning curve. For a lot of people who just want to do relatively basic editting, premiere elements would be a better bet - simpler but still capable (and most importantly still happy handling avchd input files)

fraction of the cost too

[Thermo]

Have you tried the latest Windows Live Movie Maker? It is a ground-up rewrite and streets ahead of the older versions. It's dead simple to use, fast (even on my low-end Sempron box) and can publish to YouTube, high-definition (1080p), and DVD.

Review: http://www.winsupersite.com/win7/wlmm.asp

[rochie]

Windows movie maker works OK but pretty simple and limited function.
Power Director really good but needs a grunty computer.

[White-Lightning]

cheers for the replys.
yes I have used sony vegas, but it was ages ago and I think it was vegas 5. I did quite like it though, adobe premier sounds possibly a bit complicated. I also don't think that the laptop would be able to keep up with it either!! anybody have any idea on the vegas pricing?