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How to Choose Video Editing Software

 

A step by step guide to navigating past the marketing and towards choosing the best video editing software to suit your needs.

User Forums the Real Customer Service

Having spent quite a good deal of time over the past few years on many video editing software user to user forums I have come to greatly appreciate the time and assistance freely given to others by those that man these sites. Initially I received invaluable help from total strangers and ended up over time providing help to others when I could. Aside from the the personal … [Read more...] about User Forums the Real Customer Service

Using Free Trials to Test Each Video Editor

Realistically speaking you could almost say that every computer in the world is an an individual unto itself. Now this is not an article on the development of artificial intelligence nor a prediction that your computer has attained a state of self awareness! This page is about the absolute necessity to always take advantage of free trials when looking for video editing … [Read more...] about Using Free Trials to Test Each Video Editor

Editing Software Basic Version or Advanced Version?

I received a message the other day from someone who wanted to get into some video editing but was uncertain about just how deep he wanted to dive into the software pool.Basically he was asking whether to go for a basic version of the software he was looking at or should he go the whole hog and get the super deluxe version.You can see the original exchange … [Read more...] about Editing Software Basic Version or Advanced Version?

Video Editing Software, A.I. Tools and Marketing

AI video editing tools

Over the past 10 years or so I have watched the development of video editing software for the average user advance in leaps and bounds.What I have also noticed is that the marketing of that software has been very heavily influenced by what could be termed as a slavish devotion to the latest and greatest!When I first started editing, transitions were all the rage and … [Read more...] about Video Editing Software, A.I. Tools and Marketing

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