Video editing - Anybody now anyhting about it?

[Arthur Dent]

I've got a video capture card on my PC and a nice digital camcorder (well, one I can borrow anyway). So, I've been thinking of doing some amature video editing for my own amusement.

Anybody try this? Any good software packages for the PC, preferably free?

[AdolescentMasturbator]

I hate to say this but Final Cut Pro 3 for the Mac is the best video editing program bar none.

For you I'd suggest a "trial" version of Adobe Premiere or maybe some Avid software.

[Arthur Dent]

Abobe Premier looks good. I'll download the "trial" version tonight. Too bad they won't say what the diiference is between the free trial version and the $1200 full version.

Can the stuff be exported to VCD?

[Keyser Soze]

I'm quite skilled at the Adobe Premiere. I've used it to slice and dice the clips I shot for Foundry Music at the softball game. Feel free to AIM me if you need any assistance.

[AdolescentMasturbator]

I'm not sure what file format the program outputs to? If you wanted to burn to vcd you ahve to make sure it's MPEG-1. Although you can convert it if it doesn't.

[Keyser Soze]

You can output to a variety of file formats. I have not done VCD but i know you can output to MPEG.

[onehung]

Say a shortfilm of sorts was to magically appear on your harddrive in vcd format... Um, how would you watch it ?

[AdolescentMasturbator]

VCD's(MPEG-1) are watchable on your computer right away since they're such an old standard. You can also burn them on to cds to watch on certain dvd players.