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Choosing Digital Video Editing Software

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Choosing digital video editing software can be a headache. There are so many options to choose from that one can easily become disheveled. Editing software ranges from the extremely professional complicated use to the extremely cheap "does it for you" interface. The bottom line is the software needs to do exactly what you want it to do. Don't waste your time with really neat looking digital video software that you found at Best Buy when it costs way too much and does things that you wouldn't be able to figure out easily. Before going out and spending the big bucks for your software, make a list. List all of the things that the software needs to do. Go online and look around a bit at other people's expectations and see what the bare bone requirements should be for the software. Here is a list of things to start with, but read up and add to it.

  1. Ease of Use
  2. Well-designed User Interface
  3. Media Support
  4. System Requirements (make sure it will even function when it gets home)
  5. Basic Video effects and editing functions
  6. Fair Price

After making the list, put down how much money is available to invest in the product. Digital video editing software can be quite a spendy endeavor, so if you know exactly what you can and can't spend, your decision will be thoughtful and a good move financially. Now it's time to shop.

Go online and try out different vendors and see what kind of software is the most popular. You can rest assured that the software that sells the most is most likely good software to buy. This is not always the case, but it is a good place to start if this is a new thing you are doing. Read about the software at the actual digital video editing software's company page. Learn what the software does and does not do straight from the source the software is made. From there, you can different reviews elsewhere on how it actually performs the things it claims to do.

Picking the editing software is an extremely important step because it is where the video will be captured, edited, and rendered into a final product. A lot of digital video editing software will even burn the final video onto DVD too. This all means that you will be spending good quality time with it. Just like buying a shoe, you and the software need to fit comfortably because there is a long journey ahead and lots of work to be done. Always keep this in mind.

Before buying digital video editing software, try it out first. Most of the top editing software programs have limited use demos available to download straight from their product page. Download the demo and play with the video. See what it does. If it runs too slow or renders the video poorly, no matter how pretty the software looks, don't buy it unless there is a grant from government given to you to update the ole' computer. Here is a test that can be given to digital video editing software that if the software fails any part of, it would be a wise decision to continue looking.

  1. Does it handle the video on the editing time line well?
  2. Does the audio work and stay in synch with the video?
  3. Do the transitions and effects work properly?
  4. Does the software render the video into the appropriate file format?

If at any point during these questions the software fails to deliver, move on.

After all of this time spent choosing the digital video editing software, you will be sure to choose the software that best suits your basic needs, and hopefully does extra on top of that. From here creativity can take over and high quality videos will be produced straight from your own computer.

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