Video Editing and Publishing Software

[Chaos is Born]

What Video editing and Publishing Software do you use?

I have used Vegas 5 in the past and found it to be limiting...
I am now working with Pinacle studio 9 and find it is great for both editing and publishing except for the rendering time factor... Had a machine dedicated to rendering a full length dvd took 8 hours...

Anyone have any experiance working with Pinacle that has been having this issue and how did you solve it?

[icewolf08]

No experience with Pinacle. But, to answer your original question, I use Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro. Not to start another Mac v. PC discussion, but along with Avid it is the industry standard for digital editing.

Here is a quote for you:
"Most of the shots that we're talking about, which are the space battle shots at the end of the movie, were actually done on a Macintosh, the kind of thing that almost anybody can do."
~ George Lucas, on the refurbishment of the Star Wars trilogy

[mbenonis]

I haven't done much video editing for a while, but the last time I did I used Final Cut. My apartment-mate, however, edits feature-length films and swears by Primere.

[Chaos is Born]

Originally Posted by icewolf08

No experience with Pinacle. But, to answer your original question, I use Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro. Not to start another Mac v. PC discussion, but along with Avid it is the industry standard for digital editing.

I haven't gotten to use Final Cut Pro on my mac yet, i was using what my father was using... basically he is full PC.
In my honest opinion i agree that MACs are the way to go for anything multimedia editing though, i've only been working with one for five months with my photography and my workflow is way up cause of it.

[6ftstudios]

Personally, I've used Pinacle & Premiere. Premiere was fine, but I had never ending problems with Pinacle. For the little bit i've done since I've gotten my Mac i've just used iMove.

Our company will be starting an internship soon and each intern with a film-making will get a new mac with finalcut express (for small projects), but also have access to Final Cut Pro.

[PadawanGeek]

Adobe Premiere Pro for regular video editing and importing.
Adobe After Effects for special effects (like lightsabers)
Adobe Encore DVD 2.0 for publishing (ex. DVD menus)

That is pretty much all of the software I use for movies... and I love it all!

P.S. Premiere Pro is a lot better that Premiere.

[Thefoxygranpa]

I purchased Pinnacle and had nothing but headaches come out of it. It wouldn't not recognize my camera ever. Tech support was awful, they did nothing to help me. After half a dozen calls I was finally told I would recieve a refund and they would call me in a week.

Yep...that was in Jan. , still no call from them

I have recently gotten Premiere Pro and I'm looking forward to using it...

[PadawanGeek]

Originally Posted by evanriley

I have recently gotten Premiere Pro and I'm looking forward to using it...

A good way to get a quick start on Premiere Pro is to get a Total Training DVD. They're great for learning about the software.

[leistico]

I use Vegas 4 personally... I love it, and it pretty much maxes out on my rig. In fact, I'm doing "Proof" right now on stage, and I did video effects for pre/inter/CC and post show, and I used Vegas 4 to put together animations and run them through our video projector. Works nicely, and more versatile than a powerpoint presentation.

[Pie4Weebl]

I swear by Premiere, its nice once you pair it up with a raid 0 array in your computer.