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Sony Vegas Pro: http://www.videohelp.com/tools/Vegas (600$):
an awesome video editor. Cannot handle mpg files well nor surround sound in one file, but can create perfect surround sound and has an unlimited amount of possibilities in cutting, titling, using images, masking areas, transitions, blending, panning and cropping, etc.
Sony Vegas Movie Studio: http://www.videohelp.com/tools/Vegas_Movie_Studio ($55):
a great editor for a nice price. Has a lot of the capabilities that Vegas Pro offers, just on a smaller scale. Number of video and audio tracks is much more limited. A nice way to work into the Sony family of software for an affordable price.
Womble Mpeg Video Wizard DVD: http://www.videohelp.com/tools/MPEG_Video_Wizard (50$):
can be used to create awesome fanedits, but has a lot of bugs when it comes to perfection. Anything that triggers the encoder will result in a drastic decrease of image quality, but with the use of exporting to frameserve it can be used for titling and transitions as well. By itself it is THE ONLY tool with a great working smart rendering engine, which means NO LOSS in image quality when working with a source mpg file, including the capability to keep the full ac-3 surround sound.
Affordable but by far not as easy to use as it seems, if you aim for perfection.
Adobe Premiere Pro: http://www.videohelp.com/tools/Adobe_Premiere_Pro ($700):
A difficult yet mighty editing tool, picky when it comes to source formats, but in combination with adobe after effects an awesome tool for fanediting in superb quality. Can do anything a faneditor can think about doing.
freeware solutions are possible, but very difficult. Avisynth http://www.videohelp.com/tools/Avisynth can do it all, but to use it you will need to study for ages.
Note that with the exception of womble ALL these editors create best quality only when using an external encoder to mpg, like CCE or TMPGxpress.
an awesome video editor. Cannot handle mpg files well nor surround sound in one file, but can create perfect surround sound and has an unlimited amount of possibilities in cutting, titling, using images, masking areas, transitions, blending, panning and cropping, etc.
Sony Vegas Movie Studio: http://www.videohelp.com/tools/Vegas_Movie_Studio ($55):
a great editor for a nice price. Has a lot of the capabilities that Vegas Pro offers, just on a smaller scale. Number of video and audio tracks is much more limited. A nice way to work into the Sony family of software for an affordable price.
Womble Mpeg Video Wizard DVD: http://www.videohelp.com/tools/MPEG_Video_Wizard (50$):
can be used to create awesome fanedits, but has a lot of bugs when it comes to perfection. Anything that triggers the encoder will result in a drastic decrease of image quality, but with the use of exporting to frameserve it can be used for titling and transitions as well. By itself it is THE ONLY tool with a great working smart rendering engine, which means NO LOSS in image quality when working with a source mpg file, including the capability to keep the full ac-3 surround sound.
Affordable but by far not as easy to use as it seems, if you aim for perfection.
Adobe Premiere Pro: http://www.videohelp.com/tools/Adobe_Premiere_Pro ($700):
A difficult yet mighty editing tool, picky when it comes to source formats, but in combination with adobe after effects an awesome tool for fanediting in superb quality. Can do anything a faneditor can think about doing.
freeware solutions are possible, but very difficult. Avisynth http://www.videohelp.com/tools/Avisynth can do it all, but to use it you will need to study for ages.
Note that with the exception of womble ALL these editors create best quality only when using an external encoder to mpg, like CCE or TMPGxpress.