Editing movies

[Dr.MAD]

A friend of mine is searching for a programme where you can edit films with (avi, mpegs, etc)
He wants to be able to cut and paste some pieces and so...
anyone knows a good programme for this? Easy to use and if possible free (but it's not really that bad if it ain't free)

Thanks for any help :)

[Jedi Master]

Virtual dub can cut avi's.But to be onest most of the free where programs ive seen only do the basic editing .. cuting, joining, and running filters when encoding.To do some serious editing you need one of the adobe programs.(there may be others, not to sure.)

[plank]

If you could get a hold of a Mac from someone you could use iMovie. I use that alot and it is very good and easy to use. In the last 2 weeks I have made a 40 documenty out of over 600 hours of footage all done in iMovie. But make sure it is a iMac with more that 800mh/z power and 348mb ram. I don't know if iMovie can open .avi but if you use quicktime pro you can open .avi after downloading DivX.

[NorthViking]

Should be severals tools on www.dvdrhelp.com (http://www.dvdrhelp.com)

[arckane]

Adobe Premier is the best one for Windows.

[Dr.MAD]

Thanks for the suggestions all.

[Bulzy]

all you have to use my friend is windows movie maker its easy and do anything amature that you will ever need to do but i agree with plank imovie is a newbie god of

a program REALLY easy to use and has lots of features if ya want serious you cant go past final cut pro it is aswome!!!!!

[plank]

Bulzy i know i have USED it. Apple have just released the new version of it. It's called Final Cut Pro HD. that looks good and with the rest of the software in the same line you need a G5 dual 2.0 gh/z with 2gig of ram.

http://www.apple.com/finalcutpro/ (http://www.apple.com/http://www.apple.com/finalcutpro/) also have a look at the rest of the software

Update I took a few screen shots of the two programs if you want a look

[Bulzy]

yeah the new effects feature will be mad on hd i will have to see if my course co-ordinater will buy it

try exporting your work into live type and adding effects through that ive done some cool things that way