What's a good user friendly program to buy to edit ADCHV video?

Question

I have recently purchased a CANON VIXIA HF100 and the software that comes with it is just garbage. I will be recording mainly in the 24P format and need a program under $400 to do basic editing...nothing fancy, no effects needed. The main problem is the MTS or MT2S format that the camera uses. The only program that I can find is Sony Vegas 7, but I have an old version of Vegas and found it more that difficult to do just the basics. The software also needs lossless (near lossless) rendering and the ability to output as AVI or MPEG-4 if possible. ANy ideas from a pro?

Answer 1

You may try AVS Video Editor which has many great functions. The features in the official site are below:

1. Direct Transfer to iPod, PSP, Mobiles and Other Portable Players

2. Supports Virtually ALL Video Formats

3. Burn Movie DVDs

4. Capture and Edit Video from External Devices

5. Edit Video and Enhance Your Movies

6. Create Slide Shows

7. Make Perfect Audio for Your Video Editing Tasks

8. Scene Detection

9. Convenient Video Editing Tools and Interface

There is the free download link:

http://www.freedvdripper.org/dvdvideocon...

Also, you can use Photoshop which may be difficult for us:

http://www.adobe.com

Answer 2

Get AVS Video Editor,  it can helps you create Hollywood-like home videos with little prior computer video experience. Helpful tips guide you through each step of the process. Creating great video productions is now a hassle-free task with AVS Video Editor AVS Video Editor (even for beginners). Supports virtually all video formats.

http://www.avs4you.com/AVS-Video-Editor....

Answer 3

99.9% of the Pros do not use consumer-grade camcorders and they do not capture video to highly compressed AVCHD (MTS/MT2S) video file format. AVCHD is used by consumer-grade hard drive, flash memory and DVD based camcorders.

These are what the Pros I know use:

http://www.panasonic.com/business/provid...

http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/cat-broadca...

http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/contro...

http://www.red.com/

http://firestore.com/solutions/catalog.a...

This is if the pros choose not to use film.

http://www.arri.com/

http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/cat-broadca...

If you want to be where the pros are, but in a consumer format and price point, the Canon HV20, HV30, Sony HDR-HC7 or HC9 is about as close as it gets. To say you want "lossless", yet you capture in a very highly compressed AVCHD format to begin with is a bit of an oxymoron since compressing digital video results in discarded digital information, which is inherently going to cause loss.

You might not want "anything fancy", but any editor worth spending money for will have the ability to do different transitions, have some effects, save as or export whatever format you need - including "Full Quality", and allow some audio editing/control. And all these features will be there whether you want them or not. The current versions of Sony Vegas and Adobe Premiere usually float to the top in the Windows world. In the Apple Macintosh environment, FinalCutPro2 floats to the top.

The workflow is capturing the best available quality, then edit, then compress to what your requirements dictate. Lots of compression as the first step is not a good idea. That's why the pros don't do it.

Answer 4

you can try avs video converter, Rip and burn personal DVDs, convert video, split, join, edit, rotate, apply effects, transfer, copy! convert video between almost any formats: AVI (DivX, XviD, etc.), DV AVI, MP4 (inc. Sony PSP and Apple iPod), WMV, 3GP, 3G2, QuickTime (MOV, QT), SWF, DVD, VOB, VRO,MPG, MPEG 1,2,4, MOD, DAT, VCD, SVCD, ASF, ASX, MJPEG, H.263, H.264, Real Video (RM, RMVB), DVR-MS, MKV, OGM, FLV, etc, The only video converter which offers timeline video editing. Convert video & Delete unwanted parts. Split and join video files. Rotate, add titles and credits, apply more than 50 audio and video effects to your movies.

you can free download it here,

http://www.flash-video-soft.com/avs-vide...

hope it is useful to you, If you still have question, you can use yahoo to search for more answers http://answers.yahoo.com or feel free to contact me,

Answer 5

Greetings,

If you can swing $400, there is no doubt in my mind that you should get the newest version of Sony Vegas Pro.  It will take a little bit of time to learn the program, but trust me, it's well worth it and will expand as you expand!  

Jeff