This Sony Movie Studio is excellent. It has a simple uncluttered interface with a short learning curve and outputs high quality video in a large number of formats, and, very important, makes it easy to experiment with different output formats, which I have not yet tried... I only outputted an MP4 file, but could have tried numerous other options. It has a great text editor that lets you paste text from a simple ASCII editor like Notepad. Highly polished and intuitive.
Other editors I have used are as follows:
== My favorite video editor of all time, that I compare others to, is Adobe Premiere 5.1, purchased at least 15 years ago, at an astronomical price north of $900 including a Pinnacle video card. Unfortunately it handles only AVI type files. But the interface is simple, precise, and quick. Lets one divide a single input video file into as many pieces as you want, storing each in the resources folder, so that you can place excerpts from the same file anywhere on the timeline Great for precise editing. But only runs on Windows 98 or Windows 2000. So in this modern day is useless.
== Adobe Elements 11. Interface is simple and uncluttered and accepted MP4 file, but final movie image quality is blurry and poor.
== Corel VideoStudio Ultimate 2020 . Could not even read an MP4 file. Had to convert MP4 to MPG with radical loss of image quality. Unsatisfactory final product. Horribly cluttered interface. Maybe okay if you have a lot of time to learn it.
== Cyberlink PowerDirector 16 Ultra. Cluttered interface. Even though I paid for it, learning curve was too steep.
== Movavi Video Suite 2020 – Personal . Excellent video output in MP4 format. Simple interface, uncluttered intuitive, but, horrible text editor, and no ability to easily experiment with output options in different formats. Not as easy to use as the Sony Movie Studio 13 Suite. Controls need polishing.
Sony Movie Studio 13 Suite- 30 Day Free Trial [Download]
3.4 | 139 ratings
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Last update: 01-09-2025
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30- Day Free Trial
A complete suite for your digital life
Contains: Movie Studio 13 Platinum, ACID Music Studio 10, Sound Forge Audio Studio 10
Extras: BorisFX Continuum Units, FXHOME HitFilm plug-ins, iZotope Vocal Eraser, NewBlueFX 3D Titling and Video Eff ects, Studio Devil British Valve Custom Guitar Amp, 50 Sony Sound Series: Production Music Soundtracks
Create video in beautiful 4K (ultra HD) XAVCS or AVCHD, develop original music, and enhance multichannel audio
A complete suite for your digital life
Contains: Movie Studio 13 Platinum, ACID Music Studio 10, Sound Forge Audio Studio 10
Extras: BorisFX Continuum Units, FXHOME HitFilm plug-ins, iZotope Vocal Eraser, NewBlueFX 3D Titling and Video Eff ects, Studio Devil British Valve Custom Guitar Amp, 50 Sony Sound Series: Production Music Soundtracks
Create video in beautiful 4K (ultra HD) XAVCS or AVCHD, develop original music, and enhance multichannel audio
Top reviews from the United States
HGW
For editing MP4 files, is better than any other editor I have used (not tried with other file types)
Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2020L. Polansky
Broken. Does not work after installation.
Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2023
Terry&lisa Alvarez(skillings)
Even the trial did not have a strip in the video must get if you are starting out
Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2020Genee
Terrible
Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2017
Adam Spade
Going through some phases...
Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2015
Amber
This program is pretty basic compared to other programs such as Sony Vegas ...
Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2016humdec
Works for me.
Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2016
Karri Pelfrey
Why offer something that doesn't even have support anymore.
Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2018