Hey guys I'm going to try and start making hunting videos, I'm planning on getting a Canon VIXIA hf m500 soon and ill need a good editing software for it, id like to get a free one because of the price of the camcorder/sd cards/tree arm ect... One around $20 or under might work well too, i have windows XP.
For basic effects and editing the best free software to use would be Windows Movie Maker. Very user friendly and has a good array of things you can do with it.
The editing software that came with with my canon hfm50 works great for me now. Its basic and real easy to use
Windows movie maker was driving me insane so I opted to purchase Corel video pro. Makes simple editing extremely easy and has some pretty cool features aswell. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I am downloading Movie Maker now to give it a try. I don't have any software on Kristine's computer and want to get something for it and before I purchase something else figured I would give it a try. Any tips from those that use it?
XP Movie Maker is pretty poor in the XP version. It did get better by Windows 7 though. In Windows 8, it likes to crash. Virtual Dub I think is better on XP.
I played with it last night. It is very easy to use but so basic. It actually has a few features that my older version of Pinnacle Studio doesn't have but I know the new version has them. Think I will just stick with Pinnacle after I upgrade it. Guess for a free software it isn't to bad though!
Its biggest downfall is that it moved on with the OS. So those with XP get a weaker version. Kinda like you can no longer get IE upgrades for XP. What kinda machine you running it on? I just got a midrange i5 Dell cheap, and it really blows away my older machine for processing.
I would try to find an older version of Adobe online - like quite a bit older. With XP your performance will definitely suffer if you try to run some of the new software they have available. Older versions are cheaper and for the things you are trying to do the upgrades between them likely won't make a difference anyway.
Anyone running Movie Maker figure out how to put Picture in Picture yet? Have it running and just trying to figure it out but haven't come up with a solution to that yet.
Just subscribed to Adobe creative cloud. It's $21 a month and you get all of the adobe products so I'm starting to work with Premier pro and after effects. Definitely the best you can get but a little pricy to buy
The Creative Cloud is a very powerful tool, and much more cheaper than the alternative. You get access to the entire Adobe suite for, what I thought was $50 (are you getting a student discount), as opposed to having to pay $700 for a single program like Premiere.
It's $29.99/month for students/educators, and $49.95/month for everyone else. There is a discount for CS6 loyalty current owners that's cheaper $29.95/month, and they're going to offer a Photoshop only subscription as well. Not that it's answering the OP's original question, but Adobe just announced ownership of software and distribution of said software ends with CS6. It's now a cloud subscription or nothing. Short term, to get the creative suite, it's cheaper, in the long run, you're shelling out way more money for a product you don't own for updates you most likely don't need. When you stop paying, you have nothing. Your files (unless exported) are non existent. It only takes a little over two years at the educator discount for me to catch up with the upfront price of the master collection. After that, I'm losing money. Initial reaction from most in the community seems to be negative. I'll hold of judgment for now, but you will either see Adobe fall, or they will flourish. This is a make or break move.
Like everything online, there's a lot of speculation going around, and while I'm not an Adobe insider by any means, I see it as a result of a few things: A. Helps alleviate piracy B. Ensures a steady revenue stream, especially for educational institutions and larger corporations that HAVE to have the software, but whom often could "skip" a release or two. C. Streamlines updates and eliminates conflict when working between versions, or even updates between versions (think of all of the plugins and Camera Raw updates and how they're spread across multiple platforms now). That's just my theory, and again, I can see SOME positive aspects of the Cloud, but it just seems to kick aside the long time users of the program who have invested so much into the previous versions. For the occasional user who may want to use the Production Premium Suite for a month or two, then never again, it makes much more sense. For someone who uses Photoshop daily and will do so for years, it's a nightmare of a policy. Not to mention that if you do use it for years, you will sunk literally hundreds or thousands of dollars, and you STILL don't own anything. Someone on Fredmiranda said it best. I buy groceries monthly, not software:D
