What's up, guys?
Today we are talking about video editing software.
Going to give you guys my personal recommendations
for beginner, intermediate, and advanced for both Windows
and in Mac.
That's coming up.
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Hey, guys.
My name is Tim Schmoyer.
And it's Thursday, which means it's time to do some YouTube
Q&A with you guys, just like we do every week.
Kevin Torion wrote and asked this.
What video recording softwares do you recommend?
First of all, Kevin, let me say that I actually
am not very experienced with, like, a broad range
of video editing softwares.
I did start as a beginner, just like everyone else.
And now I use some more advanced software,
which I'll talk about in a second.
But there are many different video editing software programs
out there.
And I haven't used all of them.
And so I personally can't recommend all of them.
All I can do is talk about the ones
that I personally have used, and will recommend it to you.
And I'm going to start with those on the Mac platform,
which I highly recommend also.
If you're a beginner, just starting out,
iMovie comes free on Mac, and it is a very, very, very solid
program for just getting started.
It'll do most of your basic stuff,
and then maybe even little extra things
that you didn't even know you wanted to do or could do.
If you've been using iMovie for a while,
and you feel like you've kind of outgrown it,
or you've kind of like mastered that whole software,
you kind of want to take your video editing
to the next level, then I would personally
recommend Final Cut Pro X. If you're familiar with iMovie
already, then Final Cut X will kind of feel somewhat
familiar to you, and shouldn't be too difficult for you
to kind of get moving.
And a lot of it will just feel intuitive
as you start to get into it.
If you want to move to the advanced program,
the software that I personally use is Adobe Premiere Pro.
And I love it.
I've been using it for a long time.
I definitely would not recommend just
jumping into it if you've never edited video before.
You won't find it very user friendly or very intuitive
if you don't really know how video editing works
in the first place.
So I wouldn't start there.
However, if you feel like-- like right now you're on iMovie,
and eventually you do want to jump up to an advanced
professional grade software for your editing like Adobe
Premiere Pro, I would say, like, you probably
don't need to do the intermediate step
at that point.
Like, you can probably go from iMovie to Adobe Premiere Pro.
But what I would highly recommend you do-- and I'll
put a link to this in the description below this video--
is go through the essential basic training
tutorials at Lynda.com.
Now, that training is not free.
It will cost you about $25 for like one month, I think.
Then you have like unlimited access
to everything in their site.
But you really just need like that one training.
Go through that video training.
That's what I did.
And by the end of it, like, you're
pretty much up to speed to kind of use that program, not
just from where you left off with iMovie,
but starting to use the advanced things from there as well.
And that actually applies for both Windows and a Mac users
who are going to Adobe Premiere Pro.
If you are on Windows, and you're just
looking for something free, basic, to get started, like,
we actually have a video about that right here.
It's also linked up below.
You can go check that out.
But Windows Movie Maker-- it's free, you can download it
if you don't already have it on your Windows system--
is definitely very, very, very basic.
You're not going to be able to do hardly much of anything,
other than just kind of cut and chopping
some video up a little bit, maybe adding some text-- which
might be fine for a lot of you guys.
But if you do need something that's
kind of more intermediate-- kind of goes to the next level--
personally, I would recommend Adobe Premiere Elements.
It's the cheaper kind of slimmed down version of the Pro.
I hear a lot of people recommending
Sony Vegas for the intermediate level, which I haven't
personally used, so I can't really say either way.
But I hear a lot of people talking about that.
And, then again, if you want to go the advanced route,
Adobe Premiere Pro is what I recommend.
And the great thing about Adobe Premiere Pro
is that the suite, if you subscribe to it online
for like $30 some a month, then you also get access
to Photoshop, and to After Effects, which
is kind of like the animation-- like if you want
to do visual effects, stuff like that.
That's what that software's for.
You'll get Adobe Audition, which is a great software
program for really fine tuning your audio,
like even sometimes in my audios,
if I have like a lot of hum or noise in the background,
I can just like, zoom-- just filter all that out
to make my audio sound great.
So a lot of really powerful solid tools in the Adobe suite.
I would love to hear from you guys with your recommendations,
and what experiences you've had with these different software
programs.
I know there's a ton of them out there.
So if you see someone down there recommending one that you also
recommend, I'd love to hear your thoughts on it.
But also, thumbs up each other's comments,
so we can kind of raise to the surface the comments
and the recommendations that most of you guys agree with.
And the rest of you, if you're kind of
trying to feel out different software programs
and want to hear some other thoughts,
definitely go down there and read
what other people are saying-- always really helpful.
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