I'm thinking about buying a Video Editing Software.
What I have tried so far is:
- Sony Vegas Pro 12
Didnt like the interface and usability, it felt a little unintuitive and awkward, plus it had some intrinsic issues like motionblurring by default and such.
- Lightworks (freemium)
I cannot work with this. It's fast, but the UI and the usability are pure brainfuck
- Blender in Video Editing Mode
OMFG, brainfuck exp 100 please get me out of here I dont know what I'm doing dog
- Windows Live Movie Maker
I used the old Movie Maker and I liked it for it's simplicity. I made one vacation DVD with it and it was fine. The new Live version is a brain-cluster-fuck.
- Magix Video Deluxe 2015 Premium
I instantly love the usability and self-explanatory interface & tools. However, I dislike the speed, but that's kind of OK, what I cant live with is the fact that there is no preview for the effects & blends / transitions, none whatsoever, so in other words you have to try everything out on the fly to see what it actually does. Cheap aswell, less than 120€. This is my current favorite, if I dont find anything else.
- Corel VideoStudio Pro X7
Best and most self-explanatory UI + Effects + Blendings and such with exact previews of what each filter does (they use animated gifs a lot). I dont like the output options here, I cant seem to find where I can just encode a mp4 h264 file. It kind of only gives me two options: burn DVD or AVCHD (BluRay), which I dont want.
My requirements for Video Editing Software
I wanna use it for basic cutting and editing with blendings and transitions and some effects, nothing fancy, only what everyone has seen 10000 times before in other videos. I will NOT create my own custom effects, so the software does not necessarily need to be super-powerful. It should be able to output in common uncompressed formats for video and audio, both in common video & audio container formats (avi, mp4, mkv, ...) and it SHOULD have a good (many options) h264 encoder onboard (even if I'd rather use x264 externally if the internal encoder sucks).
Pricelimit is <=250€, so for semi-professionals or home-users.
i use Movie Studio Platinum 12.0 (64-bit) [its Sony Vegas for Derps... but its get the job done]for Editing then spit out a uncompresed Avi/Mov to be procesed by Avidemux or Handbrake ...
after effects is pretty awesome overall
but for pure editing with simple effects if you have a lot of footage, i would go with premiere
the interface is simplified with editing in mind and you don't get drowned in bazillion layers like in AE if you have a lot of clips
the instant preview performance and render cache features alone push it past AE for pure editing use
and audio and color correction tools are superior to what you have available in AE
but the more complex visual effects are also limited to simple one layer stuff that's built in
in a perfect world, adobe would merge these two pieces of software
they're already deeply connected in that you can right click a clip or a group of clips in premiere and do effects on them in AE and they render in premiere in real time
for most uses, you can do most things with both
so if you're not doing big or compex stuff, choice does not matter
big project? premiere
effects? ae
i did a music video some time ago and the integrated use of premiere and AE was extremely useful
being able to do editing, audio and color correction in premiere and jump into AE for specific clips for effects was great
i would have drowned in AE or premiere alone
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