ffxdean wrote:
As mentioned it all comes down to personal taste. Although I would prefer Ulead Video Studio 11 Plus and Magix 12 Pro for a few reasons:
1. Its extreamly easy to use and learn.
2. It has most features compared to Premiere CS3 (cropping, additional timelines, reverse, masking etc and heaps heaps more effects compared to premiere)
3. Its about 95% Cheaper than premiere. (Magix Pro 12: $49US, Ulead VS11 $89US and Adobe Premiere CS3 $700+US)
Although there are still things lacking compared to premiere (although i doubt you would notice or care) for instance Premiere has unlimited timelines but Ulead Video Studio has only 10 (not saying that its not enough but its an example) and Magix it has unlimited timelines although you can only undo 30x where as Premiere (and Ulead) is unlimted.
Thanks, that's insightful. The thing is, i might need a hell of a lot more than 10 tracks for the video I'm starting to work right now. But since you say that Magix has unlimited timelines, it might be a good choice (don't really care about the 30 undo's max, since I rarely feel the need to undo that much). However, just as an example, I recently tried to sync a drum loop from an anime on a drum loop sound from a song. I tried reversing, slowing or speeding up, cutting, nothing worked just as I expected. So i said "Screw all this" and I rebuilt the entire animation sequence frame by frame so it would suit my needs. Now, do you have the same editing flexibility in Magix? Can you speed up/slow down/reverse speed as easy as you do in Premiere? Also, when you do such operations, do they come out ok? I asked around and some friends told me to steer clear of Ulead's speed slowing feature, since it makes the frames all jerky and stuff. Is this true?
Just as a note, for the time being I'm not that interested in effects. Only good old editing and syncing. I'm trying to make an absolutely no-effects vid and there are a lot of places where I'll be recreating sequences frame by frame, just like I did with that drum loop.
