Help me get started

ShoulderChip

Hiya,

My first every video camera, the GoPro 3 hero black edition is due on Wednsday,
I have never edited videos before, so where should I go to start?

I work as a software developer so wont struggle from the tech side of things, any suggestions?

landsleaving

The GoPro site has a free video editor to download called GoPro Studio. Think it used to be called Cineform. That's probably an ok place to start. If you want to get a bit more serious (really depends on what you're shooting) think about Premiere Pro (there's a free trial) or Premiere Elements, or Final Cut if you're on a mac.

ShoulderChip

landsleaving wrote: »

The GoPro site has a free video editor to download called GoPro Studio. Think it used to be called Cineform. That's probably an ok place to start. If you want to get a bit more serious (really depends on what you're shooting) think about Premiere Pro (there's a free trial) or Premiere Elements, or Final Cut if you're on a mac.

Okay cheers, if The free editor is not to shabby to start with I will give that a go and see how long it takes me to cry out for new features, not too sure what I will be shooting yet

ScumLord

Adobe have some great price plans now with their cloud services. you can get access to Premiere pro for something like €20 a month. When I think about the amount of use I've gotten out of Premiere there are definitely gaps of a month when I don't use the software.

Premiere pro is very easy to use for what it can do.

Fionn

I dont have any personal experience of it but I've read some reviews that praise Lightworks and it's free!!

ShoulderChip

Cool I will try that, I just got it last night, got freaked out when I saw my first video on vlc as it didnt work but then it came out well with the gopro app, need to take some proper videos over the weekend when i am home and it is bright outside.

sunny2004

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/video-editing-30-free-tools-and-web-services-to-get-things-done/