High-end Video editing software

[Knight of Blackness]

Hello. I'm looking for a piece of high end video editing software. Basically I need to cut out a moving character from one movie and place it into another movie. The result needs to be believeable.

Anyone know of such software? I've looked but all I could find was way, way, way below my requirements. Willing to pay for it.

[The General]

Adobe has some stuff and I have heard some movie producers use cyberlink

[Apollo]

Final Cut Pro 6/Adobe Premier CS4, however if you're serious Final Cut Pro is the way to go, its pretty much industry standard at the moment.

[Miaow]

Final Cut Pro is probably your best bet.

[kite--]

Final cut pro, but have fun getting your hands on it.

[Ford Prefect]

Final cut pro, but have fun getting your hands on it.

Looks pretty available.
http://www.torrentz.com/search?q=final+cut+pro

[kite--]

And a mac? Then the skills needed to do such a thing, and for it to be believable? I would even doubt my skills in final cut in achieving what this person wants.

[PointlessForest]

Yeah, I'd go with FCP. Also, get Adobe After Effects. It's basically photoshop for video.

[blackcat]

After Effects is really the only program you'll have a chance doing this in.

And good luck masking out the character for all the frames perfectly without the character being in front of a green/bluescreen. 24fps (frames per second) for an actual celluloid film clip can get tedious having to mask each frame individually. And if it's shot digital, have fun with the 29.97fps.

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On an afterthought, I suppose you could do it in Photoshop.

Take your favorite NLE, (excluding Vegas, WMM, and iMovie), get the clip you want to cut the character from cued up, and when you export from your NLE, export it as a "Filmstrip". Then import that into Photoshop and edit in there. When your done, save it again as a filmstrip in Photoshop, then reimport into your NLE.

The filmstrip is just an image file, so your audio wont carry over, so just be mindful that when you reimport the filmstrip into your NLE, you'll have to reimport your audio.

Good luck. :rolleyes:

[Destroyer]

Final Cut Pro is probably your best bet.

This, FCP is the best thing I have used.

[Dfg]

Pinnacle Studio 12.