Best Video Editing Software

I use Adobe Premiere Pro CS6. You can rent it from Adobe for 29.99 / month, rather than shelling out several hundred. You can also subscribe to Adobe Creative Cloud for $49.99 / month and get access to all of their software, including Premiere Pro, After Effects and Audition. You also get free upgrades this way.[DOUBLEPOST=1344282552][/DOUBLEPOST]Also, for a free alternative. You can't beat the power of Blender. (blender.org)
 
I've been using Adobe premiere for a few years now for both professional work and my own work. I'm still using CS5.5 (don't really need to upgrade yet).
The things I like about Adobe premiere is when you open it you have a "blank canvas". No wizards telling you what the programmers think you should do.
Plus Apple's Final Cut Pro can read and use Adobe premiere project files so if I'm sending a project file out for colorization or effects the people I work with on projects can read the work I send them.
My eldest son has Sony Vegas and he asked me to help him on a project. I found it awkward to use. Sony could make it a contender for professionals but for some reason they haven't.
I'm not saying that Sony Vegas is a bad program but I can do things better and faster in Adobe premiere but then I've been using it for years.
 
Has to be Vegas. Very professional, sleek and easy to use. Plus it comes with great features like colour correction, lens flares and other various effects.
 
Usually I would say that there is no best blah blah blah but since a couple months there is a best actually, and I consider myself a professional editor.

Final Cut f*****g sucks big time, i'm sorry to be harsh but that's the truth. Final Cut 7 is old and not updated, it only runs 32 bits and is a douchebag about video formats that you can input without it to lag like crazy.
Final Cut X is just a complete failure on multiple levels.
Vegas is just too clumsy

Premiere IS the best, you can throw any format at it and you can tranfer the footage to after effects without encoding . It rocks.
 
Final cut pro but not version X. Its a major step backwards in my opinion. Premier if you have windows, as an adobe product it works really well with photoshop and after effects which can be handy.
 
I use FCP X, Abobe Master Suite Collection, and Magic Bullet's Suite. I never used FCP before X so I don't have an issue with it and I find Adobe Premiere confusing personally.
 
I'm partial to the Sony line, but can't afford Vegas, so I use Sony Movie Studio Platinum 12. I'm pretty green when it comes to editing, but I've not had a single issue using it or had to google for more than a minute to figure out a feature.

I'm hardly taxing the software, doing little more than very basic editing, but the interface works for me and it renders excellent quality videos fairly quickly (using CUDA).
 
This will sound crazy but I swear by Window Movie Maker 2.6

It's very, very fast and assumes the simple things so you don't have to spend ages setting the same thing up over and over again. It's very fast and snappy and while I agree that it's very old and can only cope with certain file types, every time I use another video editing software I quickly get bogged down in ultra complex things and return to Movie Maker 2.6.

I do use corel video studio very occasionally when I need to do something more complex like picture in picture.
 
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