The Best Video Editing Software for Windows and Mac

There's a lot of different video editing software suites out there and they vary in how user-friendly and intuitive they are to how advanced and difficult they are to use. While I haven't used all of the programs out there, here are the video editing programs I recommend for beginner, intermediate, and advanced editors for both Mac and Windows.

MAC
Beginnger: iMovie (http://bit.ly/1h3Lq6f)
Intermediate: Final Cut Pro X (http://bit.ly/1ktoM6O)
Advanced: Adobe Premiere Pro (http://adobe.ly/MZOH9d)

WINDOWS
Beginnger: Windows Movie Maker (http://bit.ly/1l2IrdH)
Intermediate: Adobe Premiere Elements (http://adobe.ly/1pCs3nA)
Advanced: Adobe Premiere Pro (http://adobe.ly/MZOH9d)

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What's up, guys?
Today we are talking about
video editing software.
Going to give you guys my
personal recommendations
for beginner, intermediate,
and advanced for both Windows
and in Mac.
That's coming up.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Hey, guys.
My name is Tim Schmoyer.
And it's Thursday, which means
it's time to do some YouTube
Q&A with you guys, just
like we do every week.
Kevin Torion wrote
and asked this.
What video recording
softwares do you recommend?
First of all, Kevin, let
me say that I actually
am not very experienced
with, like, a broad range
of video editing softwares.
I did start as a beginner,
just like everyone else.
And now I use some
more advanced software,
which I'll talk
about in a second.
But there are many different
video editing software programs
out there.
And I haven't used all of them.
And so I personally can't
recommend all of them.
All I can do is
talk about the ones
that I personally have used,
and will recommend it to you.
And I'm going to start with
those on the Mac platform,
which I highly recommend also.
If you're a beginner,
just starting out,
iMovie comes free on Mac, and
it is a very, very, very solid
program for just
getting started.
It'll do most of
your basic stuff,
and then maybe even
little extra things
that you didn't even know
you wanted to do or could do.
If you've been using
iMovie for a while,
and you feel like you've
kind of outgrown it,
or you've kind of like
mastered that whole software,
you kind of want to
take your video editing
to the next level,
then I would personally
recommend Final Cut Pro X. If
you're familiar with iMovie
already, then Final Cut X
will kind of feel somewhat
familiar to you, and shouldn't
be too difficult for you
to kind of get moving.
And a lot of it will
just feel intuitive
as you start to get into it.
If you want to move to
the advanced program,
the software that I personally
use is Adobe Premiere Pro.
And I love it.
I've been using it
for a long time.
I definitely would
not recommend just
jumping into it if you've
never edited video before.
You won't find it very user
friendly or very intuitive
if you don't really know
how video editing works
in the first place.
So I wouldn't start there.
However, if you feel like--
like right now you're on iMovie,
and eventually you do want
to jump up to an advanced
professional grade software
for your editing like Adobe
Premiere Pro, I would
say, like, you probably
don't need to do the
intermediate step
at that point.
Like, you can probably go from
iMovie to Adobe Premiere Pro.
But what I would highly
recommend you do-- and I'll
put a link to this in the
description below this video--
is go through the
essential basic training
tutorials at Lynda.com.
Now, that training is not free.
It will cost you about $25
for like one month, I think.
Then you have like
unlimited access
to everything in their site.
But you really just need
like that one training.
Go through that video training.
That's what I did.
And by the end of
it, like, you're
pretty much up to speed to
kind of use that program, not
just from where you
left off with iMovie,
but starting to use the advanced
things from there as well.
And that actually applies for
both Windows and a Mac users
who are going to
Adobe Premiere Pro.
If you are on Windows,
and you're just
looking for something free,
basic, to get started, like,
we actually have a video
about that right here.
It's also linked up below.
You can go check that out.
But Windows Movie Maker--
it's free, you can download it
if you don't already have
it on your Windows system--
is definitely very,
very, very basic.
You're not going to be able
to do hardly much of anything,
other than just kind
of cut and chopping
some video up a little bit,
maybe adding some text-- which
might be fine for
a lot of you guys.
But if you do need
something that's
kind of more intermediate--
kind of goes to the next level--
personally, I would recommend
Adobe Premiere Elements.
It's the cheaper kind of
slimmed down version of the Pro.
I hear a lot of
people recommending
Sony Vegas for the intermediate
level, which I haven't
personally used, so I can't
really say either way.
But I hear a lot of
people talking about that.
And, then again, if you want
to go the advanced route,
Adobe Premiere Pro
is what I recommend.
And the great thing
about Adobe Premiere Pro
is that the suite, if you
subscribe to it online
for like $30 some a month,
then you also get access
to Photoshop, and to
After Effects, which
is kind of like the
animation-- like if you want
to do visual effects,
stuff like that.
That's what that software's for.
You'll get Adobe Audition,
which is a great software
program for really
fine tuning your audio,
like even sometimes
in my audios,
if I have like a lot of hum
or noise in the background,
I can just like, zoom--
just filter all that out
to make my audio sound great.
So a lot of really powerful
solid tools in the Adobe suite.
I would love to hear from you
guys with your recommendations,
and what experiences you've had
with these different software
programs.
I know there's a ton
of them out there.
So if you see someone down there
recommending one that you also
recommend, I'd love to
hear your thoughts on it.
But also, thumbs up
each other's comments,
so we can kind of raise to
the surface the comments
and the recommendations that
most of you guys agree with.
And the rest of you,
if you're kind of
trying to feel out
different software programs
and want to hear
some other thoughts,
definitely go down
there and read
what other people are saying--
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