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Originally Posted by 08marsh
Movie... editing... software. lol
Does your computer have a generic program like Windows Movie Maker?
It's better than being ripped off with the expensive ones.
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How are you getting ripped off exactly? Movie Maker is a very, very basic software package. That's fine if you work on very, very basic projects but if you are attempting something more elaborate you are ripping
yourself off using Windows Movie Maker.
I obviously don't know the full nature of your project, OP, but in most cases to people doing simple things I would still reccomend to download a more professional video editing software as long as they have no qualms about illegal downloading. Final Cut Pro is the industry standard but only runs on Mac. Sony Vegas is every bit as good as it. It's a quick download through torrent and it's surprisingly easy to use. Sure you can split clips, add audio and the like in Windows Movie Maker but you can do it much faster, to a much higher quality standard, with far more precision control in Vegas - especially when it comes to quickly doing things on the timeline which is where most of the work will be done if you are simply recutting an existing movie.
Windows Movie Maker.
Sony Vegas.
EDIT : Oh yeah if you are cutting an entire movie though it could be difficult unless you have a monster CPU and a lot of extra Hard Drive space. Working with large volumes of media on video editors will put a huge strain on your system. I wouldn't even attempt to render it in High Def on a standard power computer. You could be waiting quite a long time for it to complete and the preview window will be victim to frame dips as you are working. You could in theory do it in 15 minute stages in seperate projects or something like that then connect all the pieces together at the end.