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can you guys suggest to me the best movie making program that you think is currently used by most beginner or pro users?

Thanks in advance

I've tried a few, and have to say Adobe Premiere is by far the best in my opinion. Its easy to use, yet has alot of powerful tools, and also lots of help available. Check it out.

I recently had the task of authoring a two-cam dvd of a live concert and I used Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 to do it. It was extremely easy to work with and everything made a good amount of sense.

If you're on a tighter budget than that and you don't have a need for multi-source mixing, then you could probably get by with using something like Pinnacle Pro or MPEG Video Wizard. Even cheaper, just download VirtualDubMod (free) and play with that.

i use sony vegas. i believe Adobe Premiere eats a lot of resources compared to vegas.. but all depends on personal preference

for basic movie editing, try built in windows movie maker.

pugrit wrote:for basic movie editing, try built in windows movie maker.

Ugh, really don't lite that program. Or any other M$ program for that note. But it's up to each users to decide I guess.


And to arn0ld:

If you're not just going to edit the movie or clip, but encode it too, try AviSynth. It's a text based video encoding tool which is, by many users choice, the best way to encode video. You can download it free from http://avisynth.org/ . In fact it's the only (I'm quite sure) way to encode video to the H.264 codec.

Scorch wrote:And to arn0ld:

If you're not just going to edit the movie or clip, but encode it too, try AviSynth. It's a text based video encoding tool which is, by many users choice, the best way to encode video. You can download it free from http://avisynth.org/ . In fact it's the only (I'm quite sure) way to encode video to the H.264 codec.

I would really like to check it out though it says

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hmmm.. regarding virtualdubmod.. can i ask if what is the difference between virtualdubmod and virtualdub? cause i checked their site though i didn't get too much info..

Thanks

I just recently made a video with premiere, and its pretty much the simplest editor to use, and has just about every option you can think of for changing up your videos.
another good one is virtualdub, which is free.

It was never said what OS is being used... For linux, transcode is a great command line program. It can do a lot of stuff. A wiki for transcode is here.
A gui program for linux that can do lots of scripted filters or modifications is avidemux2.

uhm... I'm currently into VirtualDub.. I think it's good and it's not that heavy.. Just wondering, what do you guys use to create titles with effects?

arn0ld wrote:can you guys suggest to me the best movie making program that you think is currently used by most beginner or pro users?

Thanks in advance

You can firstly try Windows Movie Maker. You can learn very fast to make movies with it and it has bunch of options available so even with such a basic program you can make a nice looking video. If you want a more proffesional program, I suggest you use Adobre Premmiere or Sony Vegas Studio. Eventually VirtualDub, but I haven't tested it myself

vermillion wrote:I just recently made a video with premiere, and its pretty much the simplest editor to use, and has just about every option you can think of for changing up your videos.

Honestly, Premiere is not the simplest one. There are many options and you can easily get confused, especially if you don't know what command does what....

-Krezarian

lemme ask one more time can you suggest to me a good free movie making tool?
Thanks

Virtual Dub. simple. free. small.