What are guys using for Home video editing software?

[Sol75]

Corel does.  It works with any cam I have tried.  from my micro keychain cam for my on-board video on my RC planes, to my sony HD Camcorder, it works great!
I can save to HDD, output to DVD or BlueRay, even directly upload to youtube. Definitely one of the nicer vid editing suites I have used.  Even has "green screen" capability, though I haven't played with that yet.  I am a noob to digital video editing and still learning a lot every time I do a video.

Matt

[CAP1]

Corel does.  It works with any cam I have tried.  from my micro keychain cam for my on-board video on my RC planes, to my sony HD Camcorder, it works great!
I can save to HDD, output to DVD or BlueRay, even directly upload to youtube. Definitely one of the nicer vid editing suites I have used.  Even has "green screen" capability, though I haven't played with that yet.  I am a noob to digital video editing and still learning a lot every time I do a video.

Matt

cool!!

that's kind of what i'm looking for.

 i hve a couple of awesome videos from warbirds over delaware.......one in particular of a pair of 1/5 scale corsairs with moki 5 cylinder radial engines on em. they look great on my computer. when i tried to upload them as i could to youtube thay looked like the quality of 10 yearsd ago.

[Sol75]

YOutube always degrades the quality of videos. Ive had the same issues with them.. its a tradeoff... free hosting of your vids... poorer quality...
You can see some of my noobish attempts at video stuff at my youtube linked here:
http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,295903.0.html

[CAP1]

YOutube always degrades the quality of videos. Ive had the same issues with them.. its a tradeoff... free hosting of your vids... poorer quality...
You can see some of my noobish attempts at video stuff at my youtube linked here:
http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,295903.0.html

look at this vid. this was taken with sony hd camcorder. it was set to 1080, and in the sony software looks great......but this....whelp..you get the point.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX7bEmFn2HM

[RTHolmes]

that looks dreadful CAP, what format did you upload it to youtube?

[CAP1]

that looks dreadful CAP, what format did you upload it to youtube?

camera records the videos as AVCHD 1080i format. the software that came with it will save the video within itself as the same. i haven't tried burning them to a dvd yet, but i think it uses the same format.
 i couldn't get this format to upload, so i saved it first, as an avi, then a second time, but this time as an mpeg4. both look like crap on youtube.

 sol's video that he linked looked great.

[Reschke]

I use Pinnacle Pro Ultimate 12 and it works great with my Canon HG20 which records in AVCHD. Pinnacle did an update to the software that allowed them to connect to the camera directly and now I don't have to save to the HDD on my system unless I want to dump the footage over...which I do anyway.

It also allows me to turn them into flash movies if I need/want to and for direct uploads to Youtube and Yahoo Video.

[Fulmar]

Sony Vegas by far my favorite.

[RTHolmes]

camera records the videos as AVCHD 1080i format. the software that came with it will save the video within itself as the same. i haven't tried burning them to a dvd yet, but i think it uses the same format.
 i couldn't get this format to upload, so i saved it first, as an avi, then a second time, but this time as an mpeg4. both look like crap on youtube.

your movie is only 320x180 141kbps, some kind of "save for web" preset maybe?

try saving the original as 1080p (progressive, not interlaced) MPEG4 with the highest possibly quality setting (the bigger the filesize the better), then upload it. should sort it

[CAP1]

your movie is only 320x180 141kbps, some kind of "save for web" preset maybe?

try saving the original as 1080p (progressive, not interlaced) MPEG4 with the highest possibly quality setting (the bigger the filesize the better), then upload it. should sort it

no such presets in the sony software. i just tried 2x to upload in hd format......no joy. possibly it could be that i'm using dsl here at home.

i'm going to try through the work computer on tuesday, and see what happens then.......i only have options to save as mpeg2, or wmv through sony's software.........

[CAP1]

ok.....i was wrong. i had saved the one i linked as a wmv. it looks like poop as you guys saw. i had another saved as mpeg2, and that one.....along with the others i just put up today look good.
 whelp...they look good, 'cept for my crappy filming.

here's that formation take off in better video quality.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOGYLK6Ye50

here's the start up. this was a father/son team, and these corsairs were phenomenal. they had full hydraulics for the wings. gorgeous birds. the son flew his jet a little later, but my battery was dead.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOO8lveYef0

[RTHolmes]

muuuch better

[CAP1]

muuuch better

thank ya sir. i may still try one of the other programs, as it may make life easier.....

 it was just pissing me off that i have a decent hd camcorder, a pretty friggin great computer here, and i still couldn't upload decent videos.