AVI EDITOR

Does anyone know a reasonable priced one.

Thanks,

try Avidemux, it is a free one. Simple, but free. Otherwise Pinnacle or Media Studio 8

Thanks, I will be looking at this movement.

Personally I use Premier Elements (came bundled with Photoshop Elements). Not bad - a decent range of editing options and transitions.
Matt

Big problem with Premier is that it is too unstable, crashes constantly. The industry standard is Avid Media Composer at £2500 but Avid used to do a free cut down version which you could download from their site so it might be worth trying to find someone with a copy of it. I seem to remember it was limited by only having one audio trk but it depends what you want to do. Windows Movie Maker is better than anything that was used in broadcasting 15 years ago but it is let down by its track limitations too.

Avid is losing ground (perhaps lost) to Final Cut.
Check out Sony Vegas (there's a lite and a pro version) see if that works for you...

Also interested in this, as my wife has just got herself a Canon G9 (and I have to be honest, I recommended it :shock and it does excellent video, but the Windows Movie Maker doesn't recognise the AVI files (only plays the audio, with a blank screen), although Quicktime shows them fine.

Dan

Sounds like a missing codec

Well, that's what I thought, but there seems to be widespread mention of it on the net, but no solution (that I could find). And WMM doesn't say there's anything wrong with it, just plays the audio. I'll have a dig about some more, but if there's a free editor that does the job I'll most likely use that.

I suppose I could search the Canon FAQs.

Dan

I've had a look around, you may need 'Prism Video Convertor', whatever that is!

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I know a free one, wonderfox video converter as well as a mp3 compressor - not only converting avi but also mp4, mpeg, mkv and so on...I think the conversion is really fast that most of the time just within tens of seconds