Which Software to buy?

WickedOwl · Post by **WickedOwl** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 1:04 am

I'm just getting started in video-making and I was wondering if you guys could recommend a good intermediate video-editing software for me to get. I'm looking to spend less than $300 and would like to get something that's low-cost but still has a lot of features. Thanks for your help.

--WickedOwl

narcted · Post by **narcted** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 2:05 am

Ulead Mediastudio Pro 7 $299.

bum · Post by **bum** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 5:47 am

If your new to editing its best to just start out with windows movie maker and develope editing skills first, rather than spending your time trying to learn how to use mid-high end video editors. Do that later, once you can realy take advantage of the extra functionality.

Torchlight · Post by **Torchlight** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 12:11 pm

narcted wrote:Ulead Mediastudio Pro 7 $299.

if you are already going to spend as much as $300, then you might as well go all the way and get vegas or premiere

if not, then just use windows movie maker or even the $100 vegas movie studio

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 12:49 pm

Or $50 Magix.

Corran · Post by **Corran** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 1:56 pm

Torchlight wrote:
narcted wrote:Ulead Mediastudio Pro 7 $299.
if you are already going to spend as much as $300, then you might as well go all the way and get vegas or premiere

if not, then just use windows movie maker or even the $100 vegas movie studio

Why? Mediastudio Pro 7 is a plenty powerful video editor for this hobby. The only reason I switched to premiere after I started this hobby was the fact that there wasn't an avisynth plugin for mediastudio pro. Otherwise I would have continued using MSP6.

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 2:02 pm

It's possible to use AVS with Magix. I figured out how to do it.

I really should document that.

Torchlight · Post by **Torchlight** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 3:08 pm

Corran wrote:
Torchlight wrote:
narcted wrote:Ulead Mediastudio Pro 7 $299.
if you are already going to spend as much as $300, then you might as well go all the way and get vegas or premiere

if not, then just use windows movie maker or even the $100 vegas movie studio
Why? Mediastudio Pro 7 is a plenty powerful video editor for this hobby. The only reason I switched to premiere after I started this hobby was the fact that there wasn't an avisynth plugin for mediastudio pro. Otherwise I would have continued using MSP6.

eh, just seems to me that if you are already spending that much money - not getting vegas or premiere seems like a crime

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 2:36 am

Kalium wrote:It's possible to use AVS with Magix. I figured out how to do it.

I really should document that.

MakeAVIs?

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 11:36 am

Scintilla wrote:
Kalium wrote:It's possible to use AVS with Magix. I figured out how to do it.

I really should document that.
MakeAVIs?

Yup. Just be sure to set the colorspace to RGB24.