The program for video processing

If you have a lot of amateur footage shot on various holidays in trips to the sea or just "for a family archive," then you can quite by means of this material try to create a full-fledged film. To do this, you will need a computer, a little patience and a program for video processing.

Let's try to figure out which of the existing editing programs can help you in this matter.

The simplest and at the same time affordable solution is the Windows Movie Maker video processing software that comes with Windows XP. For Windows 7 there is Windows Live Movie Maker, this version can be downloaded from the Microsoft website. Despite the fact that this family of programs does not have any special capabilities for processing video files, practice shows that when editing by gluing together with the overlay of the simplest effects, Movie Maker copes with the tasks perfectly. In addition, it would be naive to expect some incredible opportunities from free software. The relative disadvantage is the impossibility of saving the resulting image in formats other than WMV - but just for such cases there is a huge number of different video transcoders.

EnhanceMovie is another editing program. Video editing with the use of a large number of effects becomes much easier if you have EnhanceMovie. After all, the main task under which this tool was created is the convenient and fast filling with filters and effects of amateur video. But for a full-fledged editor EnhanceMovie, of course, does not hold out if you need a program for professional video editing, then you should choose paid versions from well-known manufacturers, for example, the next editor in our list is Edius.

The program Edius deservedly considered one of the best video editing programs. The number of adherents of this solution is great, just as the number of effects built into this package is great. Among the advantages of Edius is a wide range of supported formats, the ability to simultaneously install SD and HD video on one timeline, and other options that are required professionals.

Nevertheless, many experts believe that the only package that makes sense to buy is a program for processing video from Sony. The software for mounting Sony Vegas has appeared thanks to such a world-famous product for working with sound from the same company as Sound Forge.

Vegas inherited from the progenitor of the most powerful means of sound processing, and with each new version of its capabilities in the field of editing video significantly expanded.

Vegas is "omnivorous", its list of supported formats is almost unlimited, it understands everything from AVCHD, XVID and DIVX to all kinds of MPEG and, of course, SD.

And in his list of possible output options, you can just get lost. Also, it should be noted that it is undemanding to hardware resources, serious work is possible even on a simple home machine.

But back to free video editors, we have another example of this approach to creating programs - the VideoSpin package. This program was created to process video in order to give amateurs the opportunity to easily and conveniently edit clips, adding music or video to music. But, of course, it is possible and simple installation of amateur films. Just have to take into account that the program does not provide the installer with built-in effects, but there are a lot of transitions and funny sound effects.

So we got to the end of this mini-review. As you could see, there are plenty of products on the market for mounting both paid and freely distributed. And it's not necessary to buy an expensive package to make the simplest home cinema. After all, in order for you to do it all often enough to be able to cut all the superfluous, glue the remaining in the correct order, well, add your favorite music as background accompaniment. And you can do all this with free programs.