What is BEST of Video Editing Software for home use?

Whats the hard ware what is your system software? Windows?

It depends upon many factors: your system OS, system memory, processor model and speed etc. There is no point in getting a top of the line editor, only to find that your PC is incapable of supporting it.

Thanks to everyone for a reply ,

My hardware are

-XP Pro

-AMD Athlon 4800+ (Dual core)

-4Meg of RAM (Dual Channel)

-SLI config. has 512M of video card engine, 24" wide screen LCD

-800Gbyte hard drive

-Creative SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum.

If you have a Macintosh operating system OX 10.4 or higher you are set. They probably have the best and easiest video editing software available for purchase. But like everyone before me in this thread, we need to know your operating system and what Ram and the hard drive capacity of your system is.. If you do not have enough storage and ram you will be unhappy with any software.

Dazzle has several systems that you can edit and then copy as a MPEG, Video CD or retape on VHS. The better system will make DVD's, They come with a adapter that allows you to use several types of inputs to transfer to your hard drive. It may not be the greatest but it is affordable and does everything you should require.

Adobe Premier Pro! You will quickly out grow the others, its the best out there and when used in combination with After Effects and Encore you have the tools for a complete professional result.

Take a look at the stuff from AVID Technology, Pinnacle division. Stuff is almost professional in what it includes.

If you're a novice to video editing, I'd say you're likely to get lost, in either Avid, Liquid, and Premiere. These require some cinematic technical concepts regarding timeline splicing and manipulation, multichannel weave of several source types, such as clip, transition, effect, sound, and animated text and vector scripts.

Those are not for the eager novice. To "dip and go", you would probably need a "1-2-3" type of user-interface, such as Pinnacle's DV Studio, or Cyberlink's DV Suite (of which Power Director being the editor, and Power Producer being the DVD transcoder), both a single-channel editors, coupled with analog and digital video capture, and a comprehensive DVD transcoding and burning facility.

The obvious ease of a single-channel editor, is for your advantage, when your goal is to become more familiar with various editing techniques and approaches.

Then move to multichannel, if you're up to it.

A good transition can be Sony's Vegas, and DVD Architect, My personal favorite multichannel suite, for ease and accuracy.

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Oh, Yes: If you intend to migrate analog video tapes or cassettes into the hard-disk as digital video files, you need a player of those, and a PC-Card or external box for "analog video capture" with RCA plugs for Composite Input.

Otherwise, if it's digital to digital capture, like from a DV or Mini-DV camera, a Firewire link will do. Most today's PC have those on-board, older ones require a Firewire Card, also called: IEEE-1394

Hi Yuval,

Thanks you for your input. Now, I already have Adobe studio full suite for my editing and see my learning curve responds to this.

Congrats! My advice then, would be to master each technique to the full extent, than acquire another one, instead of trying to mildly control, several at once.