on short projects, including the in-house editors at my company. Not free, but not that expensive per month if you do a monthly Creative Cloud subscription.
It's pretty powerful. Can handle multi-camera and single camera, has a new "Team" function. Most feature film editors use Avid, but a lot of TV, indie films and shorts are cut on Premiere now. It's supplanted Final Cut Pro in the "indie" niche.
project IMovie us very user friendly. I just did one over the weekend and blended many of the videos and photos that were already on my ipad and in the end went into my iTunes library and added the song I needed to go with the video. All material were well within reach, If you are looking for more sophisticated options than try one of the others.
Good Luck !
3-5 minute video of the Yankees or Giants dominating all season , playoffs etc with a sick high energy song in the background, I love well done videos like that and I hope to learn to make a really good one on YouTube one day in muh spare time
is an alternative to Adobe Premiere. I used to use Premiere, but when I bought a new PC my old version would no longer work. These days you can't purchase Premiere. I didn't want to pay the never ending monthly fee and I believe you have to be online to use.
For about 4.5 mos worth of monthly fees for Premiere I bought a copy of Corel VideoStudio. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles of Premiere, but seems to have enough for me.
is another one I'd look at too (try the free trial).
It was maybe more work appropriate since you could drop PowerPoint into a video (god I hate PowerPoint) and record screen actions to add to videos, but Camtasia was pretty cool and easy to use.
And it helped us to create demos for our teams who went to trade shows and the demos had hot spots (places to click in them and launch other video which is nice at a trade show booth) or we added them online to our customer section of our website.
I think it might be overkill for personal use, but I used it for personal use - the free trial - to make my wife a Mother's Day video a few years ago where I took pictures of the kids when they were little and made them into a video with background music. Came out nice.
but...like I said we settled on final cut pro b/c most of us had macs
For simple stuff you can use a program like Aimersoft or Movavi, both easy to use, do a lot of things and are inexpensive.
For more involved/professional results Final Cut or Premiere as mentioned above. Warning: They are NOT EASY to use/learn. I know a professional editor who said it took her 2 years to feel comfortable with Premiere and she went to Cambridge and UCLA Grad School in film.
For simple stuff you can use a program like Aimersoft or Movavi, both easy to use, do a lot of things and are inexpensive.
For more involved/professional results Final Cut or Premiere as mentioned above. Warning: They are NOT EASY to use/learn. I know a professional editor who said it took her 2 years to feel comfortable with Premiere and she went to Cambridge and UCLA Grad School in film.
I'm in the middle of learning Premiere and it's taken me a couple of months to be able to knock out very simple projects, where I'm not worrying too much about the audio mix, or color correction, or f/x. I'm constantly aware that I am barely scratching the surface of what the program can do. I've been working on a series of video interviews with editors, and I've seen them using the program and talking about using it, so I'm constantly reminded of features I've been unaware of, or only dimly aware of.
Final Cut Pro is still around and still works just fine. A lot of pro editors abandoned it when Apple moved from FCP 7 to FCP X, and took the software a step backwards. However, I'm seeing articles now that FCP X is finally up to a pro-level feature set and is an option for serious work again, though the editors I've been speaking to generally lament that it's "dead."
It's pretty powerful. Can handle multi-camera and single camera, has a new "Team" function. Most feature film editors use Avid, but a lot of TV, indie films and shorts are cut on Premiere now. It's supplanted Final Cut Pro in the "indie" niche.
I haven't tried Resolve.
Good Luck !
What kind of computer do you use?
What kind of computer do you use?
Just a Dell and don't need anything too elaborate or crazy.
but I think it only works on a Mac. great program though and easy to use.
Da Vinci is free though and there's something to be said for free.
Most programs have free trials, I'd try one of them and see if you like it.
For about 4.5 mos worth of monthly fees for Premiere I bought a copy of Corel VideoStudio. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles of Premiere, but seems to have enough for me.
It was maybe more work appropriate since you could drop PowerPoint into a video (god I hate PowerPoint) and record screen actions to add to videos, but Camtasia was pretty cool and easy to use.
And it helped us to create demos for our teams who went to trade shows and the demos had hot spots (places to click in them and launch other video which is nice at a trade show booth) or we added them online to our customer section of our website.
I think it might be overkill for personal use, but I used it for personal use - the free trial - to make my wife a Mother's Day video a few years ago where I took pictures of the kids when they were little and made them into a video with background music. Came out nice.
but...like I said we settled on final cut pro b/c most of us had macs
For more involved/professional results Final Cut or Premiere as mentioned above. Warning: They are NOT EASY to use/learn. I know a professional editor who said it took her 2 years to feel comfortable with Premiere and she went to Cambridge and UCLA Grad School in film.
For more involved/professional results Final Cut or Premiere as mentioned above. Warning: They are NOT EASY to use/learn. I know a professional editor who said it took her 2 years to feel comfortable with Premiere and she went to Cambridge and UCLA Grad School in film.
Final Cut Pro is still around and still works just fine. A lot of pro editors abandoned it when Apple moved from FCP 7 to FCP X, and took the software a step backwards. However, I'm seeing articles now that FCP X is finally up to a pro-level feature set and is an option for serious work again, though the editors I've been speaking to generally lament that it's "dead."