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[Eminem]

What do you guys use? I have no idea what a good one is.

 

[Jacobi]

I use Ulead Media Studios Pro, but I'm sure it isn't very proish. But it is enough for my digicam movies

 

[ManaByte]

Final Cut Pro.

 

[goodcow]

PC: Adobe Premiere Pro
Mac: Final Cut Pro HD

 

[Ill Saint]

Avid is still the industry standard. I use Vegas (switched from Premiere).
If you've got a Mac, can't go wrong with Final Cut Pro, as previously mentioned.

 

[XMonkey]

Adobe Premiere series is great, although I am not digging Pro as much as I thought I would before it came out. I don't like some of the interface tweaks they did (no more "razor at edit line" option when right-clicking in the timeline, anyone know if you can change this?), but I do appreciate a lot of the new features they've added (DVD integration with Encore, etc).

 

[goodcow]

Avid is still the industry standard. I use Vegas (switched from Premiere).
If you've got a Mac, can't go wrong with Final Cut Pro, as previously mentioned.

Why'd you switch from Premiere to Vegas?

 

[Ill Saint]

Why'd you switch from Premiere to Vegas?

I switched before Premiere Pro came out, so I can't comment on how it compares there, but Vegas had much better sound implementation and the general workflow appealed to me. I like the flexibility, and It's much more intuitive than Premiere, at least for me.

I'd been using Premiere from ver. 4 up until 6.5.

 

[ocelittle]

Surprisingly, Vegas is a very powerful editing app. And while it isn't as popular as the big three (Really just big two, as Adobe Premiere is RARELY used for any professional work), it is slowly coming into it's own as a mainstream editor.

All of them offer free downloads on their website that you can use to figure out which one suits your need. Because while they all do the same thing (edit), the way they do it is radically different from one another.

Premiere 6+ (Pro preferably) is the easiest to get into, then FCP, and then Vegas, with Avid being the most balls to the wall professional. But I still curse at Avid for making things OVERLY complicated (I use Avid Xpress Pro 4.6...and it pisses me off).

 

[Richiban]

At home, Adobe Premiere Pro
At work, either Avid or DPS Velocity

 

[musicplustv]

Adobe Premiere series is great, although I am not digging Pro as much as I thought I would before it came out. I don't like some of the interface tweaks they did (no more "razor at edit line" option when right-clicking in the timeline, anyone know if you can change this?), but I do appreciate a lot of the new features they've added (DVD integration with Encore, etc).

You're supposed to use the short cut keys Ctrl-K to razor at edit line.

I use Premiere Pro 1.5 with the rest of the Adobe line, After Effects Pro 6.5 (best program ever made), Encore DVD, Photoshop CS, and Audition(don't know this program that well)>

I really like the new Premiere Pro compared to the old ones. Only problem with it is that it doesn't handle 24P Standard footage very well.

 

[xsarien]

It depends on what you want to do. If you just want to introduce yourself to the fun, fun (no sarcasm, REALLY!) world of video editing, Premiere will definitely let you learn the ropes. The thing is that on the surface, video editing is largely the same, no matter what program you use. They all have a timeline, a bin, a few audio tracks, and a way to output what you need. That said, if you ultimately want to take the next step and maybe find work in the field, you need to know either Avid of FCPro.

Avid offers a barebones version of their editor for free, it's good for learning their specific software, where everything is, etc:

http://www.avid.com/freedv/index.asp

Final Cut Pro is also great, despite it's sometimes unabashed preference for Firewire (but maybe that's changed, I haven't used it in about 2 years.)

 

[Ill Saint]

For the same price (though it used to be five times as expensive) Discreet's Combustion was an awful lot better than After Effects, and probably still is.
Really, outside Photoshop and Illustrator, Adobe are kinda on the catch-up to a lot of other software.

 

[Diablos]

Microsoft VidEdit 4 lyfe.

 

[Eminem]

thanks guys. it's just for home, so i got Premier Pro. liking it so far =)

 

[musicplustv]

For the same price (though it used to be five times as expensive) Discreet's Combustion was an awful lot better than After Effects, and probably still is.
Really, outside Photoshop and Illustrator, Adobe are kinda on the catch-up to a lot of other software.

From what I've read and heard, Combustion is better for rotoscoping, painting, mattes, and stuff like that, and After Effects is better for motion graphics and animation. The addition of Keylight and Color Finesse has made AE 6.5 Pro much better because their color correction and keying were lacking.

 

[Ill Saint]

From what I've read and heard, Combustion is better for rotoscoping, painting, mattes, and stuff like that, and After Effects is better for motion graphics and animation. The addition of Keylight and Color Finesse has made AE 6.5 Pro much better because their color correction and keying were lacking.

Only going from personal experience here, but I'd never go back to AE... used it for 6 years, still a great program that will do the job brilliantly, but Combustion is just so much powerful.