Video editing software
 

So recently I been helping out a friend to do some TV shows/youtube channel stuff.

Now I am looking to do some video editing as well. I want something that's not simple because the show is somewhat professional and it does air on TV. We also use green screen when we are recording.

I personally uses a PC and my friend uses a Macbook pro. So it will be great if there is a software that be able to input/output video/audio files that can be use by both PC and Mac.

There is a few software I been eyeing on just needs some advice on people who does video editing. The software I have in mind is
- Pinnacle Stuido 16 ulmiate, it seems to be pretty decent and umlimited tracks with lot's of extras I can use. Although there is a learning curve and it isn't exactly user friendly.Is about $100 + so it is not cheap compare to the other software

- CyberLink PowerDirector 11 still pretty powerful very decent. Have a lot of features that I most likely won't use. There is also a deal of dell that I can get CyberLink PowerDirector 11 ultra for $49 so that's a sweet deal. The only downside is that it is not compiate with Mac so it might have some issue when I input/export my friend's MAC might not be able to read the files.

- Adobe Premiere Elements 11 easy to use good for first timers. Lot's of toturial. It should be compiate with with MAC and PC. However is lacking some features that the other 2 software have so that might be an issue in the future.

Any suggestions would help
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I'm personally a fan of -- and use almost exclusively -- Premiere and After Effects, but the Elements is a relatively bare boned version of the CS variants. It's pretty easy to learn, though.

Of those three, I'd lean towards Pinnacle. The current layout is very similar to the high end Avid editing software (which is not surprising, since Avid owned Pinnacle until very recently) but Corel redid a lot of the coding and made it a lot faster. It's also very capable of doing chroma keying, even if the lighting on the green/blue screen isn't uniform. It's also actually pretty novice friendly. Considering it's what my dad uses to edit his home movies and he still double clicks internet links, that should be saying something. :p

If you're willing to wait for a sale and are willing to spend a bit more money, try to find a store selling Premiere CS5.1 or 6. It's well worth the premium over any of the mentioned software. But if you're just looking to do relatively basic editing, you can't go wrong with Pinnacle Ultimate. Just don't buy the lesser variants of Pinnacle - they cut out a lot of very useful features.

Edit: Does your friend currently use any editing software on his Mac? Certain programs can still export workload files that are compatible with other programs, though mainly for rough cuts. Things like transitions and certain effects aren't translatable between different software.

I am leanning towards to Pinnacle Unlimate as well. Saw it on sale at London Drugs $99.99. Been wathcing a bunch of youtube videos about it.

I think they are using Imovies or something like that.

On PC i've being using Sony Vegas 10....so far so good...bad part?..its one of those programs where you have to buy plug-ins for what features you want.....