Editing software

[John Bailey]

There is a huge amount of almost identical editing software allowing the video maker to join clips with the usual gang of transitions, to add & subtract audio & graphics and to add text of one sort or other & animate it.
When the big jump comes needing more sophistication it appears very nearly to end with a monopoly of highly expensive kit that does more than one needs.
Has anyone produced a middle of the road solution?
I have asked before & no-one seems interested.
All I want to do is speed up my clips and do some "matting" or "keying" of two superimposed layers with colour removal.
In a word must I go down the Adobe Premier line or is there a simpler solution?

[fisherman]

John,

What you ask for is quite advanced, and know that Premiere can do the job, but, not sure about other packages.

Have you looked at Pure Motion "Edit Studio" version 3 ?

Quite good, but might not be as advanced as you're looking for.

fisherman

[TreeFrog]

Ive been using Vegas Video since V3 (now into V6) and Vegas is fabulous, intuitive, easy to learn, (Adobe has much to learn about user-interface) and its very very user friendly, which doesnt mean its a kids program, Vegas is a fully featured, broadcast standard video editor/compositor (I recently made a TVC with 96(!) video layers & 25 audio layers and Vegas just sailed through without a single glitch or BSOD, and Vegas makes beeeeaaaauutiful pictures.

Cheers!

[ShisHKbob]

Ive been using Vegas Video since V3 (now into V6) and Vegas is fabulous, intuitive, easy to learn, (Adobe has much to learn about user-interface) and its very very user friendly, which doesnt mean its a kids program, Vegas is a fully featured, broadcast standard video editor/compositor (I recently made a TVC with 96(!) video layers & 25 audio layers and Vegas just sailed through without a single glitch or BSOD, and Vegas makes beeeeaaaauutiful pictures.

Cheers!

but at $600, it should work without a hitch

[SMEG]

There is a huge amount of almost identical editing software allowing the video maker to join clips with the usual gang of transitions, to add & subtract audio & graphics and to add text of one sort or other & animate it.
When the big jump comes needing more sophistication it appears very nearly to end with a monopoly of highly expensive kit that does more than one needs.
Has anyone produced a middle of the road solution?
I have asked before & no-one seems interested.
All I want to do is speed up my clips and do some "matting" or "keying" of two superimposed layers with colour removal.
In a word must I go down the Adobe Premier line or is there a simpler solution?

Have you looked at ulead video studio 10 plus you can speed up video it also gives you chroma key technology and a few other things as well and comes in at a reasonable price well in the uk anyway its about £60 not sure what that would be in dollars