My company really wants to start creating more videos for YouTube and for blogging, but I’m not sure what video editing software we should invest in.

Windows Movie Maker is easy to use, but it crashes quite a bit. So does Corel VideoStudio 5.

Any suggestions?

I’ve had a lot of success with Sony Vegas Pro. It’s fairly easy to use and so far I haven’t had any problems with it.

 @randithompson 

Camtasia’s new version (8) was released recently. Right now, you can find a discount on upgrade packages.

@roadturn  Thank you Don.  I already have it!  :)   Camtasia has made such a difference in my business.  There is a learning curve, but if I can do it, anyone can.  

Randi 

Alright, yall! Now you know how much of a “My Man Jing” fan I am. So much so that TechSmith had a chuckle over my grieving letter for the demise of the paid version of my man Jing — asking them to let this poor widow lady opt-in to a full bodied hunky Camtasia.

That being said… I’ve been stepping out on my new Camtasia beau… sneaking around with my new free Squeeze… drumroll, please… ProShowWeb. Okay, okay, I must admit I didn’t really catch his full name before we got intimate and started messing around. Needless to say, I’m now madly in love and I don’t know this acrobatic hunkadorable dude’s name, lol!!!

Anyway, he’s FREE as a bird, doesn’t charge outrageous commercial fees like so-called free animoto, and his output is just exquisite! (He does have a small monthly commercial fee IF you want to download without his branding).

I’d say I’d be happy to share him with yall… but not too certain about that, so here’s the link before I regret it:

http://web.photodex.com/

Please excuse my obvious copywriting delirium…. Think I stayed up too late trying to dot too many t’s and cross my eyes. Just hmmmmm…

Robin Carlisle

Now this one… no affiliate link or correct product name attached, I assure you… was made with Open Office Impress and Microsoft MovieMaker.

http://youtu.be/NYLUpjYsBww

It’s called “Robin Carlisle Reviews: Rapid Affiliate Profits by Tom Ness”… (woopsy, wrong name, so just an example)… but is the happy-sad story of Ling Ling and…

…basically my first attempt at using Open Office Impress and Microsoft MovieMaker without a manual, lol!

Still… I have a certain fondness for Ling Ling… and I hope Tom Ness forgives me for putting him on the spot like that with… well… you’ll see…

Robin

@afung604 Youtube can help bring views, but the question is what are you using to bring people to the site? How about allowing them to see your video- no matter how long it is and then when completed it is automatically forwarded to your site. Let me know and I can give you more details.

Awesome- did a short video- going to do more to it.. if you want to see let me know? Very easy to use, point and click and change in matter of minutes. Was not on my Things to Do, but did it anyways Thanks again  @atlantarobin

Thanks for the great suggestions here @atlantarobin and @randithompson . I’m definitely going to check out Pro Show Web and Camtasia. I’ve also read some good reviews on PowerDirector 10. Anyone try that?

@mikedigaetano @prestonodenbrett we decided to stick with YouTube since it’s still the most popular video sharing site. In terms of actually sharing the videos, we have a great network of Realtors as well as our other social media channels (Twitter, Facebook, blog, e-newsletters) that will help draw people’s attention to our YouTube account. Any other suggestions would be very helpful.

thanks for the great info on this thread, Miss Robin! @atlantarobin

Got a link to a new favorite video/slideshow creator today… called EZVid… which ups the game of Windows Movie Maker. It’s the first to add voice synthesis to the free video production game, as well an extremely high quality video picture that actually does justice to screencasting live video games during play. Yes, it screencasts, too.

I read their Terms of Service and it looks good for limited commercial use, okaying self-promotion, promoting your company, and your clients, but no monetization, etc. 

Also, it seems to have a good royalty-free music library whose clips CAN be uploaded to YouTube on your videos. You’ll still get the message/flag that you’ve included “copyrighted” work, but YouTube routinely OKs this as it’s their online network that okayed the entire collection for upload use, but NOT for monetization. So if the rights do change, it seems YouTube will re-inform you and then you can go from there. No penalty, it seems. It’s part of YouTube’s contract with EZVid.

Haven’t had a chance to test this out yet. I did, however, watch all the video examples and short training promos on the pages. Looks really good… and with the voice synthesis of text to speech, that’s going to draw a whole lot of folks that way.

http://ezvid.com

Robin Carlisle