Video Editing Software?

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Hello

I have just recorded a lot of footage for my friend as a birthday present (don’t ask what we did, you really don’t want to know!) I had to get a TV card so I could put the footage onto my computer which i have done successfully. The problem im having is editing it as it’s going along to the song "Benny Benassi - Satisfaction". I tried windows movie maker which just doesn’t seem to have much to it and i struggled for 30 minutes trying to make my video match the song lyrics. I also couldn’t find any groovy options in windows movie maker and I couldn’t even put a video half way in the timeline, it had to have a video from the first second!

Is their any thing u can recommend which still has the drag+drop style but u can alter to the milli second and has a lot of groovy settings to make this a cool video for my friend

Don’t mind paying either but obviously free would be great!

Cheers

Sam

 

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Google free video editing

I don't know of any good free editors. If you want a decent video editing package it'll cost money. Some popular consumer software:

Adobe Premiere Elements
Pinnacle Studio
Ulead Videostudio

You can download a trial version of Premiere from the Adobe website which will work for 30 days. There are probably trial editions of Pinnacle and Ulead also.

Hope this helps.

Cheers I have been on Google looking for some but there are so many! Have you had first hand experience with any of the ones you mentioned?

 

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Thanks for all the advice guys, im slowly getting thier, im not sure the video will be as impressive as i wanted but im sure it will make him laugh!

ooo a teaser screenshot

 

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Hello again, i have another problem which i think might be a big one!

I have filmed some footage with the camera tilted on its side, but of course the video when watched is on its side also! is their any programs which can rotate a video? they are mpeg files btw.

Thanks in advance

Sam

Edit: solved, found "vitualdub" which has options to flip video. had to convert my mpegs into .avi first though as vitualdub wouldnt open them. gonna take me a while but nevermind