What's easier to use?

Hedgehog661 · Post by **Hedgehog661** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 10:46 pm

I'm looking to enter a AMV contest at my school and it has a like video/sound lab with computers with basically every video/image/sound editing program and I was just wondering what program is better for making AMV's and which one would be easier?

Adobe Premier or Sony Vegas?

Also is Adobe Soundbooth good or should I use something else?

Hedgehog661 · Post by **Hedgehog661** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 10:51 pm

sorry just realized theres also Magix Movie Edit Pro as an option ^^; sorry for the super vague, annoying question.

Any help would be much appreciated

LivingFlame · Post by **LivingFlame** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 10:53 pm

I suggest you download demos of them and try them yourself. Opinions will always vary on which is 'easier' or 'better.'

And Soundbooth probably won't help you much; it's only for editing audio, hence the name.

Hedgehog661 · Post by **Hedgehog661** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 10:59 pm

ok thats a good idea lol, thanks

and good point about soundbooth.. what would you recommend?

LivingFlame · Post by **LivingFlame** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 11:12 pm

Personally, I use both Premiere and Vegas. I prefer the workflow in Vegas, but as far as AMVs go, I wouldn't really say either one of them is 'better' than the other. It just comes down to what feels more comfortable for you.

Though I do highly prefer Vegas over Premiere if I need to do any masking. If you need to do masking/rotoscoping for a project in Premiere, you pretty much have to take it into something like Photoshop, the GIMP, or AE.

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 11:13 pm

the learning curve for each program is different for different people..

Hedgehog661 · Post by **Hedgehog661** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 11:59 pm

ok thanks guys, ill to a quick run through of each and see how it goes. i've used vegas before but don't know how to do much other than put video and sound into a video...

AaronAMV · Post by **AaronAMV** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 12:42 am

Windows Movie Maker with lots of XMLs.

Or if you're feeling lucky, try Adobe After Effects.

Hedgehog661 · Post by **Hedgehog661** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 1:02 am

i dunno XML... lol

Vivaldi · Post by **Vivaldi** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 9:46 am

AaronAMV wrote:Windows Movie Maker with lots of XMLs.

Or if you're feeling lucky, try Adobe After Effects.

Once a long time ago, I started learning XML just for that purpose, but eventually I just said "screw it" and bought Vegas.