a few tips please

[skysandstars]

hey
i just got my instant DVD adapter in...which transfers video from any camcorder into digital format...and i got a really ****** editing program. and i'm wondering,what are some of the best,BASIC,beginnger softwares out there. i have premiere 6.0,but need to spend a lot more time on that,and i'm looking from some pretty basic,but with lots of features. any suggestions would be good,and also,are there any programs that are good compressors,but dont really effect the quality of the video?any responses welcome.thanks

[wahiba]

As a beginner I started on Premier and found it over-kill for my needs. It was a 'cheap' copy. Tried most of the budget trials and actually paid real money for EditStudio2. It is now in version 3 and 2 is free on Magazine CDs (at least in UK). It is available from http://www.puremotion.com as a download, for trial and then paying for a key, or sending off for CD.

They have a forum that is monitored by the company so any real problems seemded to be checked out.

I do not know who they are, but I think it is a UK based setup. The programme is really easy to use, but is layered like premiere on a Time Line.

[miker]

I think premiere's actually really good.

the interface is clean and simple, and you can ignore the stuff like compositing and all those dumb filters until you need them.

on the other hand, sound processing in premiere ***** , I use Vegas Video/Sound Forge for that.

I started wayback with a copy of Mediastudio (Ulead) which was pretty good, too.

I'd jusy bite it and start getting on with Premiere -- it's really not that hard once you've actually used it to complete one project

[ickle_jim]

common sense states if you want the best audio use a seperate audio program. As a musician i use Cakewalk Sonar to record, and it has an ability to import movies to record the audio for them. Ive not used it but that seems like the best way you could possibly do audio: using a pro standard recording package.

That said the program would cost you another 500 notes so Ill shut up now [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[the big lebowski]

Use Cubase SX for audio mixing: it has loads of plugins and you can import any movie file type, automation of effects & faders, surround panning, etc. Downside:?700!

[miker]

upside: grokster, winmx, kazaa ...

downside: win32

upside: cinelerra, audacity, mplayer, xmms ...

downside: maturity

upside: free!

downside: 3rd party vendor support