Best Program For Video Editing

Hi!

You probably saw a lot different types of cool videos on youtube, with awesome video editing like:

I'm interested which programs are used for making such videos. Everything is possible in Adobe After Effects, as I suppose typography video was made there, or there are a lot of other different options?

Which one you would recommend?

Thank you.

Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects should meet any and all of your editing needs for videos. There are plenty of alternatives, but if you are looking for a serious long term solution you might as well jump on the adobe bandwagon now.

Good luck!

Premier pro, Sony Vegas and after effects. The 3 and only 3 that you need in life if you are trying to be a pro.

Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects

Thanks a lot guys.

bornthisway said:

Premier pro, Sony Vegas and after effects. The 3 and only 3 that you need in life if you are trying to be a pro.

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Exactly that.

It depends a lot on what you want to do, on how much time you have to do it, and on how much you wish it to be an acquired skill. I have worked for years with Sony Vegas, and with plenty of Adobe products having made de switch from Sony Vegas to Premiere a few years ago.

Sony Vegas is pretty good for some basic-advanced editing, it's definitely the most friendly software that will also help the average person get the best end result easily. For editing some holiday footage, some fun with friends, some birthday, in general averagely sized projects.

AfterEffects is not for editing, it is for motion graphics/special effects, and indeed most of that third video was probably created on After Effects. It takes a good amount of time to master After effects, and to create those kinds of animations you will very likely need to use photoshop as well.

Premiere is for advanced editing, and is likely the best, most professional option you have on a PC. However its main flaws is how unintuitive and clumsy it can be for beginners. It's still a bit of a pain for me to use premiere nowadays for certain things. If you want to do a larger project (or want to do one in the future), then you better start learning premire now. I handles larger projects better than Sony Vegas, allows you to do more complex things, allows you to have better color correction, allows you to have a connected workflow between adobe software, better quality output... (I finally snapped for the switch after Sony vegas started to crash and become corrupt when I was handling a long (30mins) film with a lot of edits, had to edit everything again)

If you want to have pretty good results with less frustrations and quicker/faster learning and editing times, go with Sony Vegas. That first video could have easily been done there.
If you truly want to have the best possible end quality results then start away to learn Premiere, I would say that second video could have been done using Premiere because of the quality color correction (even though it just seems to be a mash up cut from different sources)

bornthisway said:

Premier pro, Sony Vegas and after effects. The 3 and only 3 that you need in life if you are trying to be a pro.

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Though why would someone choose to use and invest learning time and money in both Vegas and Premiere ?

My list: Premier pro, Sony Vegas and after effects, camtasia, windows movie maker, proshow producer,...

I have been using coral, very good program and costs less than £100 for a full license.

Should be good for most youtube videos,

They offer a free trial too.

I am using Camstudio because it is simple and easy to manage.

Mac or windows?

The first two videos have very basic editing that requires little to no skill and can be easily done in Sony Vegas
but the third one is a little more complicated and requires programs like Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects(for the Music Visualizers and things)

Of course the professional people would say After Effect since is the best video editor ever, but you can do amazing videos as efficiently as After Effect and way more easier with Sony Vegas. You need some time to learn After Effects + a good computer. Sony Vegas is full of tutorials and doesn't require way too many skills, is mainly based on simplicity. Sony Vegas my advice!

Adobe premier pro is the best for what you described, if you have a powerful machine you could also try Sony Vegas.

Good luck.

We've created video like that with Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects. For After Effects you find really could templates so it's a lot less complicated than one would think.

Adobe Premier and After Effects if you want to spend the time learning them and make pro videos or just go for your average Windows Maker of iMovie for Mac

Sony Vegas 14

What about Final Cut for MacOS, you can do most of the basic, and some advanced stuff relatively easy using it

Camtasia is a pretty good piece of software that's really easy to use.

Premiere pro and After effects are the best but they have high learning curve compared to vegas.