Since the DEN team is so involved with Digital Media, I try to share new resources as I find them. Today I found Avid FREE DV, a free version of the Avid video editor, available for both XP and OSX.
A few minutes after sending out that email, I got a message from Chris Marshall asking me if I knew of any video editors for earlier versions of Windows. After all, not everybody has XP. To be honest, I don’t know of any offhand.
Do any of you have any reccomendations for Chris? Surely there must be some good resources for the XP-challenged folks out there!
There are several programs available. I’m not too sure about how good any of them are as I do all of my editing on Mac’s. Here is a partial list: ShowBiz from ArcSoft, Extreme 7 from Cinegy LLC, PowerDirector 4 from CyberLink and Vegas from Sony. The prices range from $100 for ShowBiz to $900 for Vegas. Here is a link for the Buyer’s Guide from Videomaker magazine. http://www.videomaker.com/scripts/grid_index.cfm
The second link down is for Editing Software, both Mac and PC.
I did some more research on this and found the following site that has a free software program for video editing that works on Windows 98/2000.
http://desktopvideo.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=desktopvideo&zu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.debugmode.com%2Fwax%2F
I have not tested this program because I don’t have a system that I can personaly test it on.