Any Black Friday recommendation for best tool for video editing?

[foton24]

Hello all,

I managed to capture video from an old miniDV to an old laptop using firewire. There were a dozen miniDVs and took a lot of GB space as I captured in AVI.

Now over a decade ago, Windows Movie Maker did a good job editing and burning into a DVD. Life happened and I have been out of loop on what's the best editing tool that I can use on Windows laptop.

Eventually, I would like to be able to play videos on Samsung 55" dumb TV (not smart, very old). Looks like my TV doesn't play these videos that are in hard drive now.

So any recommendations for buying a reasonably price editing software and burn them into DVDs would be highly appreciated!

Thank you!!

[TreeTops]

Windows Media Player is a player not an editor. Did you mean Windows Movie Maker?

[foton24]

Windows Media Player is a player not an editor. Did you mean Windows Movie Maker?

My bad. Yes, I meant windows movie maker.

Thanks.

Edit: Updated the original post with Movie Maker.

[lingyi]

I believe, but I'm not 100% sure that Android supports DV video (I'm sure someone here will be able to answer this) But if it does, get a dedicated media player and enjoy your videos hassle free.

$50 - $100 - Android Box or Raspberry Pi (as Jagabo suggested). Stick with the 4 star+ boxes on Amazon and the build quality is generally solid with higher cost giving you additional streaming features that you may not need.

$100 to $150+ - KDLinks, Nvidia Shield, laptop, HTPC. Note that the newer KDLinks models (e.g. A400) run Android and IMHO, doesn't warrant the premium over a $100 Android Box. While the Nvidia Shield is highly praised, most of the praise is for it's gaming capabilities, not the video capabilities.

[budwzr]

The best Editing software has always been Sony Vegas Pro. Adobe is just money grubber. I can do all in Sony Vegas Pro.

[KarMa]

Edit with Virtualdub (free), burn to DVD with DVDStyler (free). It's suggested you install DVDStyler-3.0.2-win32.exe, as the newer ones have adware which tends to happen with free software.

[budwzr]

Edit with Virtualdub (free), burn to DVD with DVDStyler (free).

Yeah, maybe free but Sony Vegas Pro has deeper tools. Premiere is money grubber. If you buy Sony Vegas Pro one time fee, you get very robust editing environments forever with no additional fees.

If you know you're stuff, you know who is more robust. Im editing for 20+ years. Premiere is a giant money-grab.

[KarMa]

Yeah, maybe free but Sony Vegas Pro has deeper tools.

OP wants to chop up DV videos and put them on a DVD, don't really think OP needs Vegas for that. If OP wants to do more than that then maybe Vegas should be considered.

[foton24]

Edit with Virtualdub (free), burn to DVD with DVDStyler (free).

Yeah, maybe free but Sony Vegas Pro has deeper tools. Premiere is money grubber. If you buy Sony Vegas Pro one time fee, you get very robust editing environments forever with no additional fees.

If you know you're stuff, you know who is more robust. Im editing for 20+ years. Premiere is a giant money-grab.

Thank you,

I see the price range for Vegas Pro from $60 to $800. I am in no way a pro in this, but I can imagine how much better this could be. Would I be throwing my money if I bought the $60 Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 15?

[foton24]

Yeah, maybe free but Sony Vegas Pro has deeper tools.

OP wants to chop up DV videos and put them on a DVD, don't really think OP needs Vegas for that. If OP wants to do more than that then maybe Vegas should be considered.

Back in the days, I had:
- Windows movie maker
- Ulead VideoStudio
- Virtualdub

I was able to make something quick and dirty, but it was well done. Now they are all clunky, although I will have to check out Virtualdub again....

[smrpix]

I see the price range for Vegas Pro from $60 to $800. I am in no way a pro in this, but I can imagine how much better this could be. Would I be throwing my money if I bought the $60 Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 15?

Vegas Movie Studio is the best bargain in town -- very capable and very reasonably priced. (and you should be able to find it for even less with a little hunting.) If it isn't powerful enough, you can upgrade to Vegas Pro without having to relearn the software from scratch. (And Premiere is excellent these days -- but stay away from Premiere Elements.)

[TreeTops]

arpantoja Your question is unrelated to the original post. You probably should start a new thread.

[budwzr]

Edit with Virtualdub (free), burn to DVD with DVDStyler (free).

Yeah, maybe free but Sony Vegas Pro has deeper tools. Premiere is money grubber. If you buy Sony Vegas Pro one time fee, you get very robust editing environments forever with no additional fees.

If you know you're stuff, you know who is more robust. Im editing for 20+ years. Premiere is a giant money-grab.

Thank you,

I see the price range for Vegas Pro from $60 to $800. I am in no way a pro in this, but I can imagine how much better this could be. Would I be throwing my money if I bought the $60 Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 15?

Yeah, you should throw your money towards compositing tools. Then learn later, before they hike the price again. It's just gonna cost you more later. Sony Vegas Pro is at the peak performance now

[budwzr]

The next step beyond Sony Vegas Pro is Hitfilm. Hitfilm will give you all the particle effects.

[budwzr]

Edit with Virtualdub (free), burn to DVD with DVDStyler (free).

Yeah, maybe free but Sony Vegas Pro has deeper tools. Premiere is money grubber. If you buy Sony Vegas Pro one time fee, you get very robust editing environments forever with no additional fees.

If you know you're stuff, you know who is more robust. Im editing for 20+ years. Premiere is a giant money-grab.

Thank you,

I see the price range for Vegas Pro from $60 to $800. I am in no way a pro in this, but I can imagine how much better this could be. Would I be throwing my money if I bought the $60 Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 15?

No, they will credit you the Pro version. It takes a year or longer to absorb the concepts. Just buy it now. The future of 1080P is pretty solid for a long time because of streaming.

[budwzr]

I see the price range for Vegas Pro from $60 to $800. I am in no way a pro in this, but I can imagine how much better this could be. Would I be throwing my money if I bought the $60 Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 15?

Vegas Movie Studio is the best bargain in town -- very capable and very reasonably priced. (and you should be able to find it for even less with a little hunting.) If it isn't powerful enough, you can upgrade to Vegas Pro without having to relearn the software from scratch. (And Premiere is excellent these days -- but stay away from Premiere Elements.)

And also you can do all your compositing in Vegas Pro. It takes a few few months to figger out. Be patient. Your money is safe. Compositing is a static skill, don't worry, you will still be safe. No money at risk.

Buy now, and take your time to learn. You wont regret. But yeah, stay away from Premiere Pro unless you're rich.

[budwzr]

I see the price range for Vegas Pro from $60 to $800. I am in no way a pro in this, but I can imagine how much better this could be. Would I be throwing my money if I bought the $60 Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 15?

Vegas Movie Studio is the best bargain in town -- very capable and very reasonably priced. (and you should be able to find it for even less with a little hunting.) If it isn't powerful enough, you can upgrade to Vegas Pro without having to relearn the software from scratch. (And Premiere is excellent these days -- but stay away from Premiere Elements.)

Right On!

[budwzr]

Edit with Virtualdub (free), burn to DVD with DVDStyler (free).

Yeah, maybe free but Sony Vegas Pro has deeper tools. Premiere is money grubber. If you buy Sony Vegas Pro one time fee, you get very robust editing environments forever with no additional fees.

If you know you're stuff, you know who is more robust. Im editing for 20+ years. Premiere is a giant money-grab.

Thank you,

I see the price range for Vegas Pro from $60 to $800. I am in no way a pro in this, but I can imagine how much better this could be. Would I be throwing my money if I bought the $60 Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 15?

Check the upgrade policy before you buy. Otherwise, go ahead and buy. You wont regret Vegas Pro purchase. Good for years of editing. Especially since most media is online now. 1080p is the new standard. Will last a long time.

[redwudz]

@ TreeTops I moved arpantoja's post to a new thread.

[foton24]

Edit with Virtualdub (free), burn to DVD with DVDStyler (free).

Yeah, maybe free but Sony Vegas Pro has deeper tools. Premiere is money grubber. If you buy Sony Vegas Pro one time fee, you get very robust editing environments forever with no additional fees.

If you know you're stuff, you know who is more robust. Im editing for 20+ years. Premiere is a giant money-grab.

Thank you,

I see the price range for Vegas Pro from $60 to $800. I am in no way a pro in this, but I can imagine how much better this could be. Would I be throwing my money if I bought the $60 Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 15?

Check the upgrade policy before you buy. Otherwise, go ahead and buy. You wont regret Vegas Pro purchase. Good for years of editing. Especially since most media is online now. 1080p is the new standard. Will last a long time.

Thank you budwzr. Any recommendation as to which one I should buy. Looks like there are many from the movie studio version itself.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/searchpage.jsp?st=vegas+pro+movie+studio&_dyncharset=UTF-...=960&keys=keys