Good Video Authoring Software, For the beginner Options

[Coomer]

I have a fair knowledge of computers and graphics and photography, but no experience with editing/producing my own videos.

I plan to make a cool video of my car once the weather gets nice if it's not sold by then, so I probably have a couple months before all of the gravel and salt that they put all over the roads is cleared off to plan and learn some software.

I know that here at work we have tons and tons of expensive and not-so-expensive video authoring programs, so chances are I can find whatever I need here. If not, I can probably get it cheap from school.

So my question is, what video authoring software should I be considering using, and why? I have no experience whatsoever with video editing, so I don't need anything too advanced, but I'd like to be able to have fade effects and stuff like that.

[creis]

Adobe Premere is pretty good, and easy but not for big videos, I tried to split a full lenth dvd movie into vcd size parts with it and had no luck.

Ulead Video Studio was my first video editing program, its easy and simple but does not let you do to much to the video, well the old one I have does not maybe the new vertion is better.

Macromedia Flash MX Its not a video editor by nature but works very well, you can add anything you want, text whatever flash fetures you want to put in it, even with Swift 3d you can do 3d animation for it, then just publish it as a mpg or avi etc.

This post has been edited by creis: Jan 11, 2005 - 7:58 PM