Recommend me good (simple) film editing software...

[Neil]

Fifteen minutes? What the fudge? Either I'm slow to pick up software, or down right stubborn (I am Scottish, so...), but fifteen minutes to pick up the whole thing? I'm calling shenanegans on Deej and Ned! SHENANEGANS! *Officer Barbrady comes running* Well in that case Neil - I'll say go Vegas, then you can also get Magic Bullet and have an absolute jizz-fest! I'll try Premiere as the review all say it's easy to use...

[DjfunkmasterG]

VEGAS is cheaper and just as effective and doesn't crash nearly as much as Adobe. THe full Version of VEGAS via OEM is $299, with all HD plug-ins, Premiere charges extras for the full HD plug-in and only comes with a basic HD plug-in. Vegas 8.0b is the current version, well at least the version I am running. Vegas can also export right to Blu-Ray standards (Tis a Sony Product), Vegas also offer rendering of straight to AVI, MPEG, DVD, QT, and about 15 other formats. Vegas save files can be imported into FCP, and AVID. Premieres can but are buggy.

[LouCipherr]

DJ did in fact teach me how to use Vegas in about 15-20 minutes after the installation. Vegas is a straight-forward, easy to use interface which is very intuitive - and if you've already messed with any other video editing software, this will be second nature. After his quick lessons, I managed to whip together a 5 minute video with music in the background without any problem. Also, the few videos I put together at the beginning of Trapped (the behind-the-scenes stuff) were all done in Vegas also. It's all I'll use for video editing now. I'll tell ya, I've used many different video editing software packages since then, and Vegas was the easiest for me to use. After my first hour or so in Vegas (and mind you, at this point I had NEVER done any video editing) , I had my first video (about 5 minutes long, with background music) completed. Your milage may vary, but Vegas is it for me. MZ - no shennanigans, 20 minutes was all I needed explained to me to do the BASICS of video editing. Now, if you're trying to do some wicked green-screen stuff, of course that's not gonna happen in 20 minutes, but for the basics? Yeah, vegas IS that easy.

[MinionZombie]

Damn, I need Deej to fly over here and teach me how to use Vegas then. He's got the magic touch! No ... not that kinda touch, you pervs. (Okay, JUST on Channel 5 now, a trailer for a documentary called - "The Whale That Blew Up In A Street" Seriously.)

[PJoseph]

As much as I hate Premiere, it is very easy to use. And I felt that Vegas is just as easy. You can be cutting with both pieces of software in just a few hours. And BTW - to everyone has not used an AVID here - it's not as complicated as everyone makes it out to be. If you have "editing" skills, than it's just a matter of learning the buttons. I'm using one right now as I read these threads - and honestly, all these pieces of software you are recommending have taken their cues from Avid. Once you learn one of them, you can move easily between them. pJ

[MinionZombie]

I duno, when I used Avid I found it to be needlessly complicated and fiddly, didn't get on with it at all. Tried another version, still didn't get on with it whatsoever. That's just me I guess, but neither is it my plan to be a professional editor, or in that zone anyway - as in, I'll edit my own stuff, but I won't edit other people's stuff.

[EvilNed]

AVID is a pain in the ass. It's a combination of EDIT and all evil things in this world.

[DjfunkmasterG]

AVID is just way too complicated for its own good. Editing software should be simple, and accessible. Like VEGAS

[EvilNed]

Or even better... Premiere! Vegas is for imperialist dogs. True men edit in Premiere.

[MinionZombie]

Or even better... Premiere! Vegas is for imperialist dogs. True men edit in Premiere. True men say "f*ck all this", and go and look at some boobs.

[EvilNed]

True men say "f*ck all this", and go and look at some boobs. LOOK at boobs? I never got people's fascination over LOOKING at boobs...

[DjfunkmasterG]

LOOK at boobs? I never got people's fascination over LOOKING at boobs... Me either... I am a leg and ass man myself

[EvilNed]

yeah, but... Look? I mean, looking gets boring pretty quick.

[DjfunkmasterG]

Not too quick. A lot of fantasies can happen during the look.

[MinionZombie]

Don't underestimate the power of looking my friends, there's always a fresh set of boobs out there to have a gander at ... unless you're Mervin on FurTV and you've seen all the porn in the world, so you need a crazy cannibal lady to eat half your brain to cure you ... ... yeah, I've been into FurTV lately.