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Be recently shot a friends wedding, on tow video cameras and now need to edit the footage.

I've never done any video work, so can anyone recommend the best/easiest software to use? Can I use something like iMovie from my iPad or would I have to use a windows based program?

I not hoping to make anything amazing, just want to present them with a nice DVD. The only issue I can think of at the moment is the two cameras have different files types, but hopefully I can get round this.
 
Just to clarify, you were the videographer but haven't edited any video before? Wouldn't that be like doing the photography without having having edited a photo before?
 
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Don't know about the iPad but on Windows you have the option of using movie maker which is free. Other options are ulead video studio, pinnacle studio....
 
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I use power director to edit video. Used to use Sony vegas but that refused to work on 64bit. Don't know if free editors are they same but they probably are in as much as you set the output size and file type and the software resizes everything to the same when it makes the output file.

So don't worry about 2 different cameras. I edited my Australia video using video from the 5D2 and my wife's Panasonic TZ 10.
 
joescrivens said:
Just to clarify, you were the videographer but haven't edited any video before? Wouldn't that be like doing the photography without having having edited a photo before?
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None of your business what the OP does:cuckoo: If you can not offer any advice, why comment?

To the OP, I've only used my video once and used iMovie to edit it, worked for what I wanted.
 
I've used Pinnacle studio on pc & iMovie on my mac both are pretty easy to use & give some nice results the tutorials are there to help too if you get stuck which are quite informative. I would not use the iPad if I'm honest could be a bit of a mare with just a touch screen, best of luck

Baz

p.s I wouldn't worry about the 2 file types a decent program should read both of them
 
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For something very basic, windows movie maker is OK.

For something a bit better, Nero 10 is great.

Don't do it on the iPad though, please.
 
I use Sony Vegas Platinum 11 (on 64bit Windows 7). Works well for me, with lots of YouTube help :-)
 
Cheers everyone, need to look into it further
 
Didn't the video camera come with any editing software? My Panasonic camcorder did.

Realspeed
 
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