Video Editing Software - The Best Selection For A Home User
Video editing software has always been considered software meant for professionals only, but with the introduction of consumer-grade cameras, people want to look forward to make home videos and thanks to online video services such as YouTube, consumer-grade video-editing software have become more and more popular. However, to choose the best video-editing software, from the whole lot that is available in the market, is so tricky that it puts off a number of people from the use of video-editing software. Here is an introduction to some of the best consumer-grade video-editing software that are available for your platform of choice.
If you are using Windows XP or Vista, you should look for Adobe Premiere Elements. This video-editing software is based on the powerful Adobe Premier Pro code base, but has features arranged in such a manner that it makes editing your home videos a breeze. According to The NDP Group, this is the number one video-editing software. This video-editing software is available at a price of $99.99, if you want the complete package, and for $69.99, if you just want the upgrade. Unlike other consumer-grade video-editing software, Adobe Premiere Elements can support up to 99 audio and video tracks. There are a number of in-built effects and new ones can be imported. What's more, this video-editing software has been included in the PC World list of the 100 best products of 2007.
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For those who want to look for video-editing software on the Mac platform, Apple has already included iMovie HD in the iLife suite, but if you want to look for more powerful software, look no further than Final Cut Express HD. This video-editing software is based on Apple's powerful Final Cut Pro video-editing software. Currently, version 3.5.1 of Final Cut Express is available with Universal Binary capability and it can be run on the older PowerPC-based Macs as well as the newer Intel-based Macs. Final Cut Express comes with high-definition capabilities but its USP is RT Extreme, which allows you to preview video without the need to wait for rendering, and the Boris calligraphy plug-in to design beautiful credits and embedded subtitles. At $299, however, Final Cut Express HD is not easy on your pocket, but then Apple products rarely are pocket-friendly.
Apart from this, if you want to look for consumer-grade video editing software to run on Linux, your best bet is Kino. Kino is based on GTK+ and is available for almost all Linux distributions and if you are using Debian, it will be preinstalled, and for the other distributions, the source will have to be downloaded and compiled before you can use this video editing software. So, you can make use of the above guidelines to decide the video editing software that suits your needs.
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