Digital Video Editing

**pcolasurf** · 1st October 2002

I have been playing with some digital video editing for awhile, but am not very experienced in it yet. I have a pretty nice Mini-DV camera and would like to learn to make badass skate videos and such. What programs are easy to use, but yet user friendly... I have tried:

*Pinnacle 7- I like, but it crashes a lot
*Premier 6- Heard it was the best, but complicted to use
*Ulead Video Studio 5- I like, but not many features

Any reccomendations???

**typ0** · 1st October 2002

Final Cut Pro is the best consumer editing app, but is only on the mac platform. You should stick with Premier, remember, nothing good comes easy! Look around for some tutorials, it wont take that long to learn it. Also there is a project file in premier (bicycles) that shows you everything in the timeline.
I know a guy who had a dv cam and wanted to do some video editing. He went out and got a wimpy notebook, got premier, learned it in about 2 weeks. Now his skate/snowbaord vids are total kickass!

Keep at it.

**mthalen** · 1st October 2002

Pinnacle Edition DV is supposed to be great.
http://www.pinnaclesys.com/productpa...product_id=561

Got 5 stars in PC Magazine:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,480532,00.asp

Haven�t tried it myself though: hard to find.

**v00j00** · 4th October 2002

Personally I started on Pinnacle Studio dv then Pinnacle Studio 7 and now 8.

Here's a vid that I've created

http://www.crestfallen.com/videos/walmartfun.wmv

I call it walmart fun, it's 1 min 55 sec long, 6.78mb totally streamable on broadband.

Now, Pinnacle Edition is comparable to Adobe Premiere, very advanced, multiple audio and video tracks. I've used it, very difficult also. But it's nice ;P

And last of all, I'm trying to find

09/28/2002 Avid Express DV 3.5 With Power Pack ISO [3 CDs]

Impossible to find. And for some reason there are two one releases of that.

Well, I hope that helps!

Intro / Advanced = Studio 8
Advanced / Prof = Edition

**lowbud** · 8th October 2002

sonic foundry vegas video

we just did a broadcast tv commercial using it entirely, looks damn good with the built in transitions and whatnot, I like it best for your average video arrangement. then yeah, avid dv is the shit for your high end when you have alot of time to play around.

**VWCRASHVW** · 8th October 2002

premiere is rediculously easy to use, find some ebooks online its cake, but if you want basic, pinnacles is nice

**Dapple** · 10th October 2002

Pinnacle V8.1 is far better than version 7

Avid is great but I couldnt get it to reconize firewire,

I use to use Videowave till Roxio baught MGI ,now the latest version is crap.

Ulead is great for beginers.

But I will stick with pinnacle 8.1 it works fine and has heaps of plugins on the net.

**Registered Abuser** · 11th October 2002

I've played around with Vegas Video and it was the only one I could get my head around that made sense to me (more or less) from the get-go. Premiere, to me, is a big maze.

**Loomer** · 11th October 2002

Vegas Video is the way to go.. Very stable and incredibly good user interface. If you want to do a lot of 3D stuff then make sure you have After Effects as well.