Adobe Premiere Family of Video Editing Products

 

Adobe makes Photoshop and After Effects (the industry standard for effects) so it makes sense that their editing software would work well.

Here are excerpts from 2 reviewers at Amazon:

Very good video editing software, December 7, 2005
Reviewer:
King "Monkey" (USA) -
First of all, I have tried many other editing programs before buying this one. I tried Sony Vegas, Pinnacle 10 plus (a disaster), Pinnacle 9, and Windows Movie maker 2.1. By far this is the best program for video editing I have seen. Most importantly, it works! No crashing like Pinnacle 10. It has a helpful manual and many books and websites dedicated to it. Video capture works well and has a nice scene detect function (which most programs have now). The editing tool is very powerful and the video are effects are more than you could ever need.

Amazing capabilities--don't let the low price fool you., May 8, 2006
Reviewer:
Lane Hauck (San Diego, CA USA) - This is an amazing program and an unbelievable bargain. As other reviewers have noted, be sure you have enough computer horsepower for the task--this is a general video editing requirement not unique to Premier. Digitizing video can be a nightmare or a breeze, depending on your system and hardware. For example Turtle Beach makes a great $100 video/audio digitizer (VideoAdvantage-USB) that puts out frame-acccurate DV format which is as good as video from a DV camera. Although Premier doesn't directly support this digitizer, the TB unit includes a program that captures video and saves the files in AVI format for easy Premier import. I have a box full of analog Video-8 tapes as source material. I found a refurbished Sony DCRTRV60 "Digital-8" camcorder which functions as an ideal digitizer--it plays the old analog tapes, digitizes them in-camera, and connects to Premier via a Firewire connection. Premier supports this camera, so you can use its excellent video capture module, and even control the camera from Premier--as easy as it gets.