William - I'm far from an expert, but I can relate my personal experience. I've tried an earlier version of the Pinnacle product, Adobe's Premier Elements and Sony's Vegas Movie Studio. The latter two are the consumer versions of the more expensive pro products. All three are around $100 US and can usually be found on discount.
After a lot of experimentation I've settled on the Movie Studio product. Functionally, it works the best for me, and it performs the best on my hardware. As an added bonus, at work, our Corporate Communications dept. uses it for all of their work so I have a convenient local resource. Now, here's the thing. All of these video programs I've tried seem to be very sensitive to your hardware configuration. So my recommendation is download trial copies from the vendor's web sites and give them a good shaking out on your specific hardware. Oh yeah, buy a couple of great big hard drives. Video eats up space in a way that dwarfs the needs of still images. See you later, gs <http://georgesphotos.net> On 8/26/07, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I recently enabled myself with a video camcorder (sadly not a Pentax). I > am wondering what would be good software to look at for editing video. If > anyone on list is doing video as well, I would love your suggestions. > The camera seems to put out a proprietary filetype which must be converted > to either AVI or MPEG, so I expect I am partially stuck with the > manufactuers software. > > TIA > > William Robb > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
