Sunday, June 27, 2004
PC Magazine Reviews Digital Video Editors
Posted by Suhit Gupta in "ARTICLE" @ 08:00 AM
"Well, you bought that new camcorder last holiday season, and if you're like us, the tapes are sitting in a closet, waiting to be edited. Graduation season has passed, perhaps adding to the collection, and your vacation is looming. But now there's no excuse for not turning those tapes into entertaining—or at least watchable—DVD titles you'll want to see and share. Here we review the cream of the crop of entry-level video-editing and DVD-authoring packages. Each costs less than $100 and is designed for consumer use; unless your last name is Altman or Spielberg, that probably means you."
Jason forwarded me this article a few days ago as I have been looking to get a new video editing tool (I couldn't install my old copy of Premier after my last computer reinstall, long story). And this is exactly what I needed to make a decision, a comparison based review of all the different video editing software currently available. They review Apple iMovie and iDVD, Pinnacle Studio 9, v9.1, Roxio VideoWave7 Professional, Screenblast Movie Studio 3.0, Ulead VideoStudio 8, and muvee autoProducer 3.
It looks like Ulead VideoStudio 8 gets the highest marks. They point out that while VideoStudio is not perfect (there is room for improvement in several areas, most notably DVD authoring and automatic movie generation), it is the best among the lot and is a "mature, full-featured product that's highly usable, fast, and efficient." One thing that surprised me was the lack of Adobe Premier from the list of software that were reviewed.
Jason forwarded me this article a few days ago as I have been looking to get a new video editing tool (I couldn't install my old copy of Premier after my last computer reinstall, long story). And this is exactly what I needed to make a decision, a comparison based review of all the different video editing software currently available. They review Apple iMovie and iDVD, Pinnacle Studio 9, v9.1, Roxio VideoWave7 Professional, Screenblast Movie Studio 3.0, Ulead VideoStudio 8, and muvee autoProducer 3.
It looks like Ulead VideoStudio 8 gets the highest marks. They point out that while VideoStudio is not perfect (there is room for improvement in several areas, most notably DVD authoring and automatic movie generation), it is the best among the lot and is a "mature, full-featured product that's highly usable, fast, and efficient." One thing that surprised me was the lack of Adobe Premier from the list of software that were reviewed.
