I was just wondering what a good program would be for editing videos. I don’t know much, actually anything about editing videos and what something that’s easy to use and not to complicated. Something I could just load up and start messing around with to really get a feel for how it’s done. Im looking for something that isn’t that complicated but not something you would need for a professional video, although it would be nice if there was one that could produce professional like results that would also be easy to use.

 

well you could use pro show gold just find a download for it and crack or you just could use movie maker 2 it also a good program but not as good as proshow gold..

 

I use Pinnacle Studio 9. It's the easiest to use but has some serious bugs as well. Kind of a toss up... Shop eBay and stay away from the Special Edition version, it's very limited.

 

i have been using windows movie maker 2. i have 3 videos i made with it in my profile[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img] the programs free too. i need better editing software now tho cuz im getting tired of MM2 and i want to do more stuff and have more options. you can probably spend up to $1000 on vdie edting sofware so its out there.

 

thanks for all the input. i guess i will have to test each one since i can get a free trial version of any of those.

 

where do you get the free trial versions???

 

i also use Pinnacle Studio but version 8 works well for me....

 

download.com. They usually have most of anything you are looking for as free trials. When your time runs up you reset the clock on your computer to some date during the length of the trial and you have a free trial version any time you want. And one other thing I noticed, when I ran this through spell check the word “they” right after “download.com.” it kept trying to capitalize “They” when it wasn’t and trying to un capitalize it when it was. I know its off topic but it made me laugh for about a minute or two.

 

For simple and easy to use, it's hard to beat Movie Maker. It comes with windows XP and it's free. I have Pinnacle also and it's just to slow and always reading/writing to the HD.

 

Windows xp came with a video editing software? If so there’s good and bad. Good, I have xp so I have the program (I would assume). Bad, until I reformat my whole computer I will have 2000. Im not sure if it can run one windows 2000 but Im guessing it would work since most of everything works with xp, me, 2000, and maybe 98.