What's the best video (MPEG) editing software?

[MAME]

I'm looking for software to do basic editing for MPEGs. Something that's easy to use (not for me actually).

Any ideas? Thanks!

 

[MAME]

 

[AnitaPeterson]

you mean cutting and pasting mpeg-2 ? that's a tricky one... check and see what they say on videohelp.com

 

[Rottie]

Adobe Premie does good job with paste and editing. I used it a lot

 

[MAME]

Originally posted by: AnitaPeterson
you mean cutting and pasting mpeg-2 ? that's a tricky one... check and see what they say on videohelp.com

Yeah, just copy pasting and the such. Simple things. It's for my boss's sony digital camera, not sure which MPEG format it is. He just wants to edit out bad stuff in the movies, like a bad openning or ending

thanks

 

[MAME]

Originally posted by: Rottie
Adobe Premie does good job with paste and editing. I used it a lot

I will check it out, thanks. Also, can you crop the movie image so that all the things around the item you're filming (a dog per se) are taken out? Thanks

 

[Night201]

Pinnacle Studio 9 perhaps

 

[BlueWeasel]

I've used MPEG Video Wizard in the past and it did a very good job with editing and cropping video files. It's not free, but I think there is a free trial for 30 days or so.

 

[Navid]

This is a question actually.
Wouldn't the Windows Movie maker do that?

 

[Night201]

Originally posted by: Navid
This is a question actually.
Wouldn't the Windows Movie maker do that?

I don't think WMM edits MPEG2

 

[Rottie]

Originally posted by: MAME

Originally posted by: Rottie
Adobe Premie does good job with paste and editing. I used it a lot

I will check it out, thanks. Also, can you crop the movie image so that all the things around the item you're filming (a dog per se) are taken out? Thanks

Premire allows you to crop any movie frames and paste it anywhere on the frame range. You can also paste still image on any frame range. I did cropped unwanted frames and link it together no problem. I used version 6.0 of Premire. Latest version right now is P. Pro. If you have Adobe package (Photoshop, After Effect, Premire, and Illustrator) makes your job easier.

 

[MAME]

woo! I appreciate it!