I’m planning on doing a podcast, and have no video editing software. I don’t need anything too complex, but I will need to be able to:
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[li]Manipulate the audio separately from the video[/li][li]Capture video from a DVD (don’t worry, no copyright infringement planned)[/li][li]Grab video of my monitor (ie, a screen capture in action . . . I imagine I might need a separate tool for this)[/li][/ul]
Anyone have any suggestions?
Oh, and I’m running a Windows Vista machine.
Will Windows Movie Maker do? That was one of the ones I started out with.
Wow. Apparently this has been a feature of Windows for a long time? Learn something new every day. Thanks!
I’m going to play around with this to see if it’ll do everything I need, but I’d still like to hear other people’s suggestions/experiences.
In your sub-$100 range the top contenders are Adobe Premier Elements (my personal choice), Pinnacle Studio, and Sony Vegas Movie Studio.
All three have demos you can download and see for yourself.
I’ll second Adobe Premier elements. Easy to use (though tweaking the output can be a little confusing at first), affordable and very powerful for the price. I use it all the time to coble together family videos.
I’ve had good luck with Sony Vegas. Somehow I got a downloaded version that doesn’t expire, looks like the newest version only lets you play with it for 30 days before crapping out. It has a fair amount of power to do what I want, but was still easy enough to use after a couple of days I felt comfortable.