Video Editing Software

[stuartcmorrison]

Hi, last year I bought Pinnacle Studio (version 8) for making movies with my PC & never got round to using it.

Since then I've bought a new PC, running Windows XP & this evening I plugged my video camera into the PC for the first time & found that XP includes editing software.

Question is; do I edit using XP or is Pinnacle Studio worth installing?

Cheers, Stu.

[Podie]

Personally I'd still go with Pinnacle...

[FourWheelDrift]

Use Windows Movie Maker (the inbuilt one) to create better compression videos (in WMV) format is you ever want to upload to some webspace. It does have a very good compression engine based around size of file e.g You have a 50mb AVI edited video file at 1000kps bitrate but you have limited webspace or bandwidth you can tell Movie Maker to make the WMV video conversion only 10mb in size and it changes the bitrate for you, to maybe 350k.

Very useful, possibly the only useful bit of free kit in XP

[te51cle]

FourWheelDrift said:

Use Windows Movie Maker (the inbuilt one) to create better compression videos (in WMV) format is you ever want to upload to some webspace. It does have a very good compression engine based around size of file e.g You have a 50mb AVI edited video file at 1000kps bitrate but you have limited webspace or bandwidth you can tell Movie Maker to make the WMV video conversion only 10mb in size and it changes the bitrate for you, to maybe 350k. Very useful, possibly the only useful bit of free kit in XP

Just tried to answer this in your other thread but FourWheelDrift has said it much better. Have heard from my video editing friends that the Ulead equivalent VideoStudio 8 is better than Pinnacle Studio in that it allows you to do slightly more sophisticated manipulation.

Oh, and Pinnacle isn't the most stable of programs, it can crash into nothingness when you give it too many changes to make at once. Frustrating if you want to do something quickly.

>> Edited by te51cle on Tuesday 18th January 19:40