fast video editing program

[Red Squirrel]

I'm trying to edit a video using premiere but that program is bloody slow and tedious to work with. Every single click involves waiting and waiting and waiting, and it's just frustrating. There's too much unessasary overhead that goes on in the background of that program. Is there a good one I can use that's very snappy and enables me to quickly view on the fly what my progress is? I remember using pinacle before and it was fast, but the only problem is that it's propiatary so you cant just edit any video format with it.

Something free would be great, but at this point I'll take anything that wont make me wait bloody ages every time I click somewhere. My computer aint slow, so that's not the problem either. (AMD 64 3000+ 1GBram)

 

[Plester]

try Avid Free DV

1gb ram is bare minumum, 2gb will vastly improve the experience.

 

[pkme2]

If you want Real Time editing, try this. Canopus Edius Pro.

Be prepared, the learning curve is high, but editing is done in real time, check it out.

2GB is definitely recommended.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Thanks for the responses so far. Avid wont work since it wont even let me run it because aperently it will only work on XP... So I'll try Canopus. Keep them coming, since I may run into other issues such as it not liking the format of my video, which I've seen before (and can't be changed in my capture program).

 

[Red Squirrel]

Any others? I seem to really have bad luck with these type of programs.

So far avid wont work on my system because it only wants to support windows XP, premiere 7.0 wont run either and on server 2003 it just errors out saying it expired (WTF) and I cant find Canopus anywhere, and if it's complicated to use I rather not have to waste time trying to figure out stuff. This is a one time thing I need to edit so i'm hoping it wont waste my whole march break because of not being able to get a program to actually work.

Thanks in advance.

Oh, and at this point, I dont really care about features, I just want to be able to cut and move around portions. I was going to do a side by side video (this is for a phone conversation) but screw that, i'll just make it flip over to each side when someone talks. I could probably use virtualdub, but that one wont even accept my captured video files... see, I have the worse of luck when it comes to these type of programs.

 

[gsellis]

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but if you want to edit with modern tools, you need Mac OS X or XP SP2. None of the recent releases of major editors I know of run on other OS versions. Avid Xpress and Canopus Edius specify XP SP2 as do Avid Liquid 7, Sony Vegas 6 (HD option), and Adobe Premier Pro 2.0.

What format is the file you are trying to edit?

 

[Red Squirrel]

Yeah mac is better from what I hear, for video editing. unfortunately, I can't get close to being able to afford one, and dont do video editing on a regular basis.

I managed to edit the video with ulead media studio 6 that I had on a CD but that's a very unreliable program, randomly crashes for no reason, have to click save after every small change. It's unfortunate that most of the windows editing programs require XP. You'd think they'd support 2000 since 2000 is WAY less of a resource hog so it only makes sense to use it for an intense operation, so more of the resources go towards the operation instead of the OS.

Oh and the format is MPEG 4 I think... I can't quite remember. But if your familiar with pinnacle products, I'm capturing with a pinnacle bungee, so whatever format that makes, it's what I use. I've had some problems with some programs not wanting to open those, unfortunately.

 

[gsellis]

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
Yeah mac is better from what I hear, for video editing. unfortunately, I can't get close to being able to afford one, and dont do video editing on a regular basis.

I managed to edit the video with ulead media studio 6 that I had on a CD but that's a very unreliable program, randomly crashes for no reason, have to click save after every small change. It's unfortunate that most of the windows editing programs require XP. You'd think they'd support 2000 since 2000 is WAY less of a resource hog so it only makes sense to use it for an intense operation, so more of the resources go towards the operation instead of the OS.

Oh and the format is MPEG 4 I think... I can't quite remember. But if your familiar with pinnacle products, I'm capturing with a pinnacle bungee, so whatever format that makes, it's what I use. I've had some problems with some programs not wanting to open those, unfortunately.

For the record, Macs being faster than PCs is a myth. Mac guys using FCP have to wait for render (user initiated) just to look at stuff. I read an account of a FCP guy who was watching someone working with my editor, Liquid, and was amazed that it was rendering in the background and almost immediately available. Carp, that reminds me that there was a guy in my town that wanted to watch me work through a video to compare. Wonder if I can find the post to call him back.

 

[nib95]

Originally posted by: gsellis

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
Yeah mac is better from what I hear, for video editing. unfortunately, I can't get close to being able to afford one, and dont do video editing on a regular basis.

I managed to edit the video with ulead media studio 6 that I had on a CD but that's a very unreliable program, randomly crashes for no reason, have to click save after every small change. It's unfortunate that most of the windows editing programs require XP. You'd think they'd support 2000 since 2000 is WAY less of a resource hog so it only makes sense to use it for an intense operation, so more of the resources go towards the operation instead of the OS.

Oh and the format is MPEG 4 I think... I can't quite remember. But if your familiar with pinnacle products, I'm capturing with a pinnacle bungee, so whatever format that makes, it's what I use. I've had some problems with some programs not wanting to open those, unfortunately.

For the record, Macs being faster than PCs is a myth. Mac guys using FCP have to wait for render (user initiated) just to look at stuff. I read an account of a FCP guy who was watching someone working with my editor, Liquid, and was amazed that it was rendering in the background and almost immediately available. Carp, that reminds me that there was a guy in my town that wanted to watch me work through a video to compare. Wonder if I can find the post to call him back.

I have to second that.
As an owner of a dual 1.8ghz G5 and a Opteron 170@2.7ghz PC, I can say the PC is much faster. Though I actually prefer Final Cut Pro software.