Video Editing Software

[damien c]

Does anyone know of some good video editing software for creating and editing videos recorded of games.

Basically I record some games from playing games but I want to be able to edit them, and save them so that they are smaller than 20gb for 10 minutes of footage I have been using windows movie maker but that doesn't allow for editing really and also, all videos are saved in WMV format.

Not only that but I would like a multi threaded program that is going to take advantage of my overclocked quad core which gives me 8 threads in windows, as windows movie maker only uses the 8 threads but only uses my whole cpu up to a maximum of 40% to convert, a video from 20gb to around 1gb ready for upload on to youtube.

Basically I would like a program:

That is multi threaded.

That is easy'ish to use.

Can shrink a video from 20gb to about 400 to 500mb but retain atleast 90% of the quality of the initial file if possible.

Will allow the output file to be saved in different formats so I can choose which is best.

I have got Adobe Premier Elements 9 with the added content but it really is a poor piece of software, as even a video with some section's cut out to use as a seperate clip the quality drop's and look's like it has been recorded on a old mobile phone.

I have windows movie maker which gives really good quality but uses about 1gb now for 10 mins of footage where as the older version only used 500mb, but it doesn't allow for much editing other than adding text and a intro slide.

I have also tried a thing included with Nero 7 but that was worse than both windows movie maker and Adobe.

I have heard about I think it is called sony vegas but not sure about it.

All recomendations are welcome price not a issue for now as I will try before I buy as most have a trial version available.

[vanman]

try Xilisoft Video Converter
some say its not the best but you can use
the free trial before ya buy it
http://www.xilisoft.com/video-converter.html

[damien c]

Just tried that one but while it is pretty quick as it uses my graphic's card it still only uses it about 16% which is still low.

The other thing is the quality from it is poor even set at the max quality it will allow it is blocky.

Cheer's for the recomendation anyway.

[Stuart]

I'd recommend trying a few, but regardless of the amount of cores you have, and how much they are overclocked, compressing that amount of video will be slow. As they say on the front page of the handbrake.

There's an old proverb in the video encoding world: "Speed, size, quality: pick two." It means that you always have to make a trade-off between the time it takes to encode a video, the amount of compression used, and the picture quality

I would recommend trying Handbrake. It's fairly quick (but may still take a couple of hours for 20 gig of video), but it does give good quality. The downside is it only outputs MP4.

Also, it is slow, but gives good compression and good quality, but you could try the trial version of Premiere. It's over £500 for purchase though. The nice thing is, it comes with Adobe Media Encoder, which has a huge range of output formats. Might be a little excessive though..

[damien c]

will have a look in to that cheers

[Matty_]

Wondershare video converter ultimate is not bad. Iv`e done a few video edits with it converting to various formats and the quality is not bad.
Not free/cheap but does nearly every format, might be worth giving a trial.

http://www.wondershare.com/pro/video...-ultimate.html

[Lord Nikon]

I use kdenlive for editing, TMPegenc for conversion.

[damien c]

will look in to those tonight cheer's

[cookie_365]

wmv is a nasty horrid piece of work.

It's not actually a video editing application, but if you're working on recordings of your computer screen, have a look at Camtasia Studio. If it's games check that it'll actually record them, might be issues with that sort of thing, there's a free trial.

If you can get earlier versions cheaper they'll probably do what you need to.