Recommend Video Editor

Hi,

After downloading the trial of Sony Vegas Studio Platinum 9, I eventually
(after some hours) found it won't import sound with avi files:
http://tinyurl.com/5ppn4c

On the basis that I am looking to pay for video editing software that will
actually do the job without being dependant on 3rd party plugs, can anyone
recommend a decent product for under £100.

This will only be used perhaps 6 times a year, so I don't have a need to
learn the ins and outs of every option. Just simple and reliable clipping,
editing etc.


TIA for every personal recommendation suggested.

 

Are you sure that it's not just a restriction in the trail version,
sorry but I haven't followed your URL as I do not follow any
tinyurl.com link for security reasons, perhaps you could post the full
URL? Normally one of the things people prise about the Vegas family of
video editors is their audio capabilities!

Have you looked at Adobe Premiere Elements
(<http://www.dvc.uk.com/acatalog/Adobe_Premiere_Elements_3.html>), in
fact for just over your 100 quid you can get both Premiere and
Photoshop Elements...

 

Based on your last sentence "Just simple and reliable clipping,
editing etc. I would suggest you see if AVI Trimmer
http://www.solveigmm.com/?Products&p=AVITrimmer fulfils your needs and it's
free. Then there is VirtualDub http://virtualdub.sourceforge.net/ and
MPEGStreamclip http://www.squared5.com/ that's worth having also free.

 

VirtualDub is, in many peoples opinion, an essential part of any
computer based video 'tool kit' regardless of what other video
edition/possessing programmes one also has.

 

...sorry but I haven't followed your URL as I do not follow any

Not really on topic, but if you prefix tinyurl with "preview." you'll be
taken to the tinyurl page first and it will tell you where you're going if
you follow the link. For example, in this case, you'd use
http://preview.tinyurl.com/5ppn4c

Hope it helps.

 

No, not really! One still needs to *go via* the 'tinyurl' web
server...

 

Some people are really hard to please. What is it about the tinyurl server
that upsets you?

 

I don't trust it or those behind it, why can't people just post the
original URL, what is the problem with that - surely it's no more
difficult to copy and paste the original URL than getting and then
posting one of these shorter URLs? If people want *me* to follow a
URL, so that *I might help them*, then they either do it my way or
they don't get the help they might otherwise get (and I'm sure than
I'm not the only person who thinks that way either)...

 

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Isn't this all a bit 'off topic'?

Robin

 

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Thanks all.

Here is the full link if you want to read it Jerry.


http://www.custcenter.com/cgi-bin/s...GV4dD1pbXBvcnQgYXZpIHNvdW5k&p_li=&p_topview=1
























(and I'm sure than

 

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Well according to that page it's a simple codec issue, something that
you could be faced with in *any* other editors, there are open codecs
(MPG type1, as used in authoring VCD, being the most obvious) and
commercial codecs (Dvix being an example), trail versions of
programmes can have all sorts of limitations due to the non payment of
licences whilst not all paid-for software contains all the commercial
codecs - this is especially true of some of the more recent or obscure
codec. Basically if you need to use a commercial codec that has not
been inclued you need to buy a licence from the codec provider.
Something else the novice needs to be aware of, just because you can
play a file using a certain (commercial) codec it doesn't follow that
you can create a new media file using that codec as there are often
both play only versions and play/write versions IYSWIM.

What you need to check is what actual codec you need, "AVI" is just a
wrapper (as Tony Morgan would say), if you don't have it already then
I suggest you download a copy of Gspot <http://gspot.headbands.com/>
(freeware), 'open' the media file in that software and then be guided
by the information extracted/given.