Nowadays, video shooting become increasingly common, for there are so many electronic devices has the video shooting capabilities. When you capture the exciting or precious moment, what will you do next? Try to polish the recorded movie? If your answer is definitely Yes, you may rend to some video editing software. In the article, I would like introduce the 4 best video editor desktop applications for you, especially video editing novices.
1.Window Movie Maker (For Windows OS)
Window Movie Maker is available for PC owners to deal with their handy shooting editing. Take its 2.6 version as an example, it can well run on both Windows OS 7 and Windows Vista. While advanced users are likely using a more sophisticated video editing program, there’s no denying that Movie Maker is an excellent, full-featured option for the average home user. The plain interface promises simplicity with drag-and-drop storyboard options, though during testing, it was more like drag and freeze.
Tip 1: Sometimes, you may find your handy file formats can’t be recognized by Windows Movie Maker. In the case,
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2.Pinnacle Studio 14 (For Windows OS)
The Pinnacle Studio 14 utilize user-friendly video capture and editing process. It is largely based around three tabs; Capture, Edit, and Make Movie. Keeping this style of interface makes it very approachable to novices and helps to keep the editing task focused. Meanwhile, there are multiple options to export your final video like uploading video to YouTube, export to iPod format, etc.
3.iMovie (For Mac OSX)
iMovie makes it easy to turn your home videos into your all-time favorite films. You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll watch them over and over again. And you’ll share them with everyone.
iMovie makes it easy to edit or share your home videos. It has a unique, combined timeline-storyboard editing view, and continues to be a marvel of ease and power among consumer video editing apps. The upgraded version 11 has brand new movie tailer and more powerful audio editing, one-step effects like slo-mo replay, and even the ability to detect scenes with people in them.
Tip 2: Do you have problem in importing your videos into iMovie for editing? You can render to a video conversion software for transcoding the original one to iMovie supported MP4 or DV. With it, you can easily convert AVI,
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4. Final Cut Pro
Take Final Cut Pro X 10 as an example:
Compared with the original version of Final Cut Pro X, the updated version 10.0.3 has some feature improvements. It is much more professional than iMovie, which has XML export and more.
Pros:
64-bit and multicore-CPU support for speedier performance. Friendlier interface. Compound clips. Auditions for alternative clips. Magnetic trackless timeline. Background processing. Good organization tools—ratings, tagging, auto analysis for faces, scenes, and stabilization. Powerful new multicam support. Powerful keying features. Supports Thunderbolt and studio-monitor output.
Cons:
Can't import projects from previous Final Cut versions natively (though a third-party plugin can). Custom export settings require separate Compressor app.
OS requirements: OS X v10.6.8 or OS X v10.7.2 or later (OS X v10.7.2 or later for broadcast monitoring); Intel Core 2 Duo
Tip: You will find there are still some popular file formats can’t be supported by Final Cut Pro. In order to make them well playback in FCP, you have to use a third party
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5.MPEG Streamclip (both Windows OSX and Mac OSX version available)
The software is comprehensive multimedia software, which can act as video player, video editing, video conversion for MPEG, QuickTime, transporting streams, etc.
It can do the following job:
Play MPEG files or transport streams; play them at full screen
Edit them with Cut, Copy, Paste, and Trim;
Convert a certain time-length video and export them to QuickTime, AVI, DV and MPEG-4 files.
Sat Nov 15, 2014 9:04 am by miniavatar
