Best Movie Program?

[Matt_]

What would be the best movie making and movie editing program for prices between $0 to $200

If you could help me out that would be great Thanks!!

[Claude]

Adobe Premiere and Sony Vegas 6, dont know actual prices though

[Scubar]

last time i checked Ulead DVD Movie Factory was rated as the best dvd authoring program available, closely followed by the adobe one. not sure about prices though.

[Mercury_22]

Try CyberLink DVD Solution 4 Deluxe! (Now: $ 99.95) or just CyberLink PowerDirector 5 Deluxe (Now: $ 89.95 ) and CyberLink PowerEncoder MPEG4 AVC Edition for H.264 codec!

Edited October 27, 2005 by Mercury_22

[jftuga]

Hey, this is my first post to this forums!

Anyway, Windows XP SP2 comes with a movie program, Movie Maker. If you don't run SP2 you can get it from here...

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloa...oviemaker2.mspx

It might not be the best, but it does meet the lower end of your price range -- $0.

-John

[suryad]

I would vote for Final Cut btu since it is not a Windows program it is obviously out of the picture. Avid is the best solution though for Windows users but it is prohibitively expensive though and for good reason.

[Jeremy]

I tend to like the freeware DVD authoring tools that work just as well as the payware ones. However, my favorite authoring tool is TMPGEnc DVD Author. As for editing, Adobe Premiere Pro is the best I think. Pinnacle, Vegas, etc, all suck I think.

[DarkNite]

DVDlab Pro with TMPGenc. Although I would go with AviSynth, QuEnc, BeSweet and not pay a dime.

[Jeremy]

AviSynth is for advanced users who have the patience to type up scripts. The majority of people that use it are super-picky or have bad source files. Make sure you have good source audio/video, then you don't need to bother with it. I do admit, though, some of the plugins for it are top-notch and better than the more popular features in commercial applications. But, I don't think it's worth it in the long run. BeSweet is awesome for WAV > AC3.

[suryad]

Right now we are for our project using Adobe Premiere and it is serving us well...except for the part where it conforms the audio files....that part is really annoying. I have not seen Final Cut Pro doing that and if you dont have a fast enough workstation which we kind of dont, it stops all work cause you cant do anything but wait till the conforming gets completed.

You guys can check out www.craterlionproductions.com if you are interested.

[markw]

I would go with Adobe Premiere Elements if you want something cheap but capable.

[Jeremy]

Why don't you just use seperate programs for the audio? BeSweet can do practically anything with audio conversion in terms of intermediate/professional video editing. I extract audio as WAV and transcode it to AC3, takes very short amount of time. Keep in mind, I haven't done video editing in almsot a year, but if I got back into it (or at least had the FireWire port on my camcorder fixed/replaced) I'd still use the same method. It was efficient and worked like a charm. I remember every oine of my 10 steps to DV2DVD conversion. Screw the All-In-One programs, I want a great job done, not a half crap job.