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Posted by: coffeeman Oct 4 2008, 04:54 PM

Im looking for a good and easy to use video editor to improve the quality of my videos , what do you recommend guys?

Posted by: Pedja Simovic Oct 4 2008, 04:56 PM

Vegas 6.0 is the one I use , its very easy to use if you are looking to add brightness sharpness or any other effect.
Also Windows movie maker will work if you used it before.

How did you upload your videos to computer so far?

Posted by: coffeeman Oct 4 2008, 05:02 PM

Thanks for the recomendation pedja. I record the videos with my photo cammera, I change the format with a video converter and thats it. The thing is that I want to improve the sound quality , Im recording the audio directly from the cammera and I want to record it in reaper or something and the sync it with the video. Vegas 6.0 alows me to do that?

Posted by: Kuba Szafran Oct 4 2008, 05:04 PM

I use Vegas 8.0 and of course it is possible to sync audio with your video.

Posted by: coffeeman Oct 4 2008, 05:08 PM

Thanks Kuba.

Posted by: Pedja Simovic Oct 4 2008, 05:11 PM

Vegas will definitely allow you to sync audio with your video.
I record audio in Nuendo and record video with camcorder so later I sync them in Vegas!

Posted by: Canis Oct 4 2008, 05:16 PM

Is there a trial version of Vegas? I heard it's very expensive...

A quick question though:
If I record sound and video in seperate programs (as I do now: the video with a Creative program, and the sound with Guitar Rig 3 simultaneously), is this sync function still as good?


Edit: Never mind, you answered my question before I was done posting it ^^
Thanks =)

Posted by: Andrew Cockburn Oct 5 2008, 02:25 PM

Vegas has a number of versions moving from cheap to more expensive - even the cheaper ones will allow you to synch video, and the more expensive ones have additional professional capabilities. I have tried several different programs and Vegas is by far the best and easiest to work with!

Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Oct 5 2008, 03:40 PM

Vegas is also my first choice, very fast to work with and intuitive. Zoom with a scroll wheel is far the best command they could implement in this app. I love it!
Perhaps you can get some earlier version, Vegas 7 is quite good as well, and not so demanding, although it is not too multicore optimized. Vegas 8 has full multicore support, so it uses all the resources it can to cut down the rendering time.

Posted by: Velvet Roger Oct 5 2008, 07:09 PM

thanks for the info, was looking for some sync software as well.

Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Oct 5 2008, 07:12 PM

What do you mean by sync software mate?

Posted by: Velvet Roger Oct 5 2008, 09:33 PM

Software to sync seperate audio files with video files, like Vegas

Posted by: Pedja Simovic Oct 5 2008, 09:49 PM

Vegas is cool and very professional , but if you are on the budget use Windows movie maker. Its free and its already in your computer (comes with Windows).

Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Oct 5 2008, 09:59 PM

Oh sorry mate, I misunderstood the post a bit. Cheers

Posted by: Vasilije Vukmirovic Oct 5 2008, 10:45 PM

Another thing about Vegas is that with all its usability and accessibility, it is very professional.
You can crop videos like you crop images in photoshop, mix two or more videos, and use other professional effects to improve you image. Exporting is also easy, you can choose format and adjust resolution, audio and video codecs, frame rate...

Yeah, another thing is audio manipulation, when you import video you automatically get two tracks one for video and another for audio...

Posted by: Bogdan Radovic Oct 6 2008, 08:49 AM

I would also recommend Vegas ! Its a very powerful software that will suit all your editing needs! Syncing and everything is very straightforward in it.Regarding video quality , I would recommend improving it at the source (like adding more lights when recording)..

Posted by: DeepRoots Oct 6 2008, 09:26 AM

Another vegas user here! Can't say enough good things about it.

Posted by: Marcus Siepen Oct 6 2008, 06:56 PM

Vegas here too. You could also check out Nero in case you are using this burning software, it also comes with a module to work on movie files.

Posted by: coffeeman Oct 6 2008, 07:01 PM

Im definitely going to check vegas, I downloaded the evaluation version but haven't been able to install it because of a .net framkework thing, don't know whats happening, so I wont buy until I fix that. Thanks for the advice guys and thanks for the nero recommendation Marcus , im going to check it too.

Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Oct 6 2008, 09:43 PM

Here's links where you can DL .net framework (the slowest technology MS ever built)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=262D25E3-F589-4842-8157-034D1E7CF3A3&displaylang=en

and for version 3.5 redistributable package
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=333325FD-AE52-4E35-B531-508D977D32A6&displaylang=en

Posted by: Bogdan Radovic Oct 6 2008, 10:34 PM

Just download the net framework from links Ivan suggested and you should be able to install Vegas! I just finished one demanding project in it and it worked like a charm!!

Posted by: coffeeman Oct 7 2008, 06:07 AM

Thanks Ivan , vegas is working perfect now , I made my first project with a marcus lavendell lesson , you can http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_forum/index.php?showtopic=20276&pid=270150&st=0&#entry270150. Im buying this software right now, thanks to all for the recommendation.

Posted by: big harry Oct 7 2008, 09:10 AM

i also tried to install vegas 9 trial but to finish i needed to register, but never got an email with the serial number
WHAT NOW ?
do i still have to wait ?

thx
Harry

Posted by: DeepRoots Oct 7 2008, 09:20 AM

You have to purchase a serial number from sony

Posted by: big harry Oct 7 2008, 10:51 AM

yeah but there´s no email from sony till yet
i am wainting since yesterday evening ...........
hmmmmmmmmmmmm

Posted by: Canis Oct 7 2008, 12:41 PM

A friend of mine told me that Vegas is unable to use .wmv files.. And I noticed that was the only kind of video file my webcam is able to record. Do anyone know of a good (free) video converter that can convert the files into whatever kind of videofile Vegas use?

Posted by: Bogdan Radovic Oct 10 2008, 12:41 AM

If I remember correctly Vegas works nicely with .wmv files....I don't have any to test right now but when I choose import there is .wmv and .wma on the list of supported extensions..Also I am definitely sure Vegas is able to render .wmv files.