Video editing software

[Bumnah]

I'm looking for professional grade video editing software. I'm not too familiar with what's out there since I just built a system which is capable of doing video editing.

Anyways any info would be great, and links to places I can get more info on video editing software would be great!

Also the system is a dual processor, so I'm looking for software that does multithreading.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Gyrene]

I don't know too much about the video editing scene, but I've used Adobe Premier for about 3 years now, and besides the occasional crash, it has been great software. Download some plugins and combine it with Adobe photoshop and you can create some kick ass special effects. Again, I don't know too much about video editing, but Premier has done well for me, an amateur DV film maker.
This has been useful to me: Link
Don't know how helpful this has been, but it's my contribution to society.

 

[Bumnah]

Thanks for the info.

Still looking for more information.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Synoptic]

Premier is definitely the way to go as far as affordable fairly high end software. From what I hear though, it won't do multithreading. If I am wrong on this someone please let me know how to fix it. Also, you can get a whole suite of products from Adobe, including After Effects, which I have never used, but again am told by a trustworthy source that it rocks. I just recently got thrown head first into this editing stuff also, so any tips anyone might have would definitely be appreciated.

 

[ScottMac]

Premiere does use multi-processors, if present (watch the splash screen when it comes up). Many/most/all of the CODECs DO NOT use multi-processors when encoding or decoding. Other processes are using the multi-processor features.

FWIW

Scott

 

[Synoptic]

Ya, I just found out this morning I was wrong about the multi-threading, sorry for the mis-information.

 

[hoihtah]

if your cpu is fast enough, then you might want to look into vegas video 3.

it's the pc version of FCP.
or at least that's what call it.

it allows your cpu power to render clips much better than premiere.

give it a shot... especially if you don't have a NLE card.

 

[crazydave]

Yeah, Premiere and After Effects in combination's pretty awesome. I posted this link in an earlier post, but just in case you guys didn't see it, check out http://www.creativecow.net I've found some really helpful tutorials there on video editing stuff and there are also some ppl who really know what they're doing on the forums. Hope that helps!

 

[LethalWolfe]

Overall I'd have to say FCP 3. But in regards to PCs, AVID DV Express would be my choice. Premiere isn't bad, but AVID is better IMO. Premiere is is kinda like the swiss army knife of of editing software.

I've read up on Vegas Video 3, but I've never used it myself so I'm not going to comment on it.

Lethal

 

[hoihtah]

the problem with softwares like premiere and avid... is that it demands a NLE card to do the rendering in real time.

even with say near 3.0 ghz P4 cpu, it won't be enough to do a realtime rendering.

if you've used FCP 3... you'd know that behind a fast g4 machine, it does render in a real time... given that there's not a whole lot of effects involved.

Vegas Video 3, does just that... it does what FCP 3 does... except on PC.

I really have to give them a lotta credit.

and many professional editors would agree with me in that if you are going to invest money in NLE card... you might want to hold off on that.
CPU soft-rendering is advancing in such fast pace that you might not need a card any more.

i had 2.7ghz p4 machine with VV3 that rendered just as fast as Pinnacle DV500+ NLE card with Premiere 6.

if you have a particular plugin that you use for premiere or avid... then it might be a different story.

but as cpu speed will continue to increase... it's just a matter of time before softrendering will take over the AV editing processing.

i'm just waiting for that 64bit cpu to come out and shine.

 

[Bumnah]

Keep the information coming! Lots of great info!


Thanks a bunch!

 

[LethalWolfe]

Originally posted by: hoihtah
the problem with softwares like premiere and avid... is that it demands a NLE card to do the rendering in real time.

even with say near 3.0 ghz P4 cpu, it won't be enough to do a realtime rendering.

if you've used FCP 3... you'd know that behind a fast g4 machine, it does render in a real time... given that there's not a whole lot of effects involved.

Vegas Video 3, does just that... it does what FCP 3 does... except on PC.

I really have to give them a lotta credit.

and many professional editors would agree with me in that if you are going to invest money in NLE card... you might want to hold off on that.
CPU soft-rendering is advancing in such fast pace that you might not need a card any more.

i had 2.7ghz p4 machine with VV3 that rendered just as fast as Pinnacle DV500+ NLE card with Premiere 6.

if you have a particular plugin that you use for premiere or avid... then it might be a different story.

but as cpu speed will continue to increase... it's just a matter of time before softrendering will take over the AV editing processing.

i'm just waiting for that 64bit cpu to come out and shine.

I agree that software rendering is moving ahead, but that's not at the top of the list of things that you should look for in an editing proggie (at least I don't think it is). What makes FCP such a killer app is it can replace AVID. VV3 and Premiere cannot. FCP is designed to be able to be integrated w/other post hardware/software where VV3 and Premiere are designed to be one stop shops. The interface is what I love so much about AVID and FCP (which has a very AVID-like interface). It's very clean looking and intuitive to use. But I'm getting off topic...

Like I said in my other post, I'd go w/AVID. Premiere is not a bad program (I cut w/it for a year), but IMHO AVID is better. And I've never used VV3 (although I do think they have a free demo that I might check out) so I'm not going to comment on it.

EDIT: Also, as far as Real Time editing goes, it's like everything else computer related, there's alway something faster around the corner. As long as basic transitions and FX (picture-in-picture, super impose, etc.,) are real time you'll be happy. But, what VV3 and FCP 3 have that is nice is once you render an effect it stays rendered if you make changes (like shorten the effected clip for example). Unlike my RT2500 card and Premiere which had to keep rendering FX every time you changed the effected clip, or almost anything on the timeline for that matter.

Lethal