Whats the best video editing software?

I agree that Avid is the best. If you are just editing recitals and wedding Adobe is fine. If you look at Adobe's website, they show TV commercials done with CS3. If you want to go "Hollywood", you need AVID for sure. I recently saw Avid Xpress Pro for $50.00 on one of the academic software websites. BUY THAT! Avid let's you tweak every detail. Final Cut Pro is almost like comparing Apples to Apples, but there are a few details that you still cannot tweak in FCP.

Avid comes with a really cool 3D Animation tool and has basic text creation. FCP comes with a really cool text effects tool called Motion and no 3D. I like Apples DVD authoring tool the best. If you require very nice movie introduction text, you should check out FCP. All of the programs let you buy third party applications for text and 3D.

Buy them both while you are a student. I just bought CS3, because I was in the middle of a project in Premiere 1.5. I did not want to go through the Avid learning curve if there is one.

If I was not in a hurry to finish the project, I would have bought Avid without question.

BTW.. I just searched for the $50.00 software. I can't find it. There is a $50.00 rebate right now.

Avid Xpress Pro is the industry standard, Final Cut pro is up there as well. Adobe premiere ranks nowhere near Avid or Final Cut. I go to a Film school and we use Final Cut for our first project and Avid for our final project. Avid is what they use in the movie industry. Final Cut is semi professional, and easier to use and cheaper. I'm not sure about the academic version but I'd go with the regular.

I have heard about the Avid Express Pro, but never got a chance to use it. I have been using Adobe Premiere till now and i like it. I consider that premiere would be a great idea for students like me...and we have the same software at my university.

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