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Originally Posted by bw_wolverine
What editing software would work directly with the fraps captures? I'd rather skip this conversion process if I could. I'm using iMovie because I had it, not because I chose it over anything else.
Also, doesn't have to be Mac. I could always just do the editing on my gaming rig I suppose. Would probably be faster too since that's a beefy desktop and my Mac is a MacBook Pro.
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Virtual Dub can be used to do basic editing, but that's not really what it was designed for and it could just end up being more a source of frustration than anything. It's free and is worth checking out, and perhaps using as a video conversion or post processing tool. But if you want to do more than just join one clip straight onto another, you'd probably be better off forking out for one of the Sony Vegas products.
Here's a product comparison page -
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/...udiope/compare
I don't have any of them, but from a quick look, you'd want either Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 11, or Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 11 Production Suite. That's using the logic that if you found out Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 11 was lacking and wanted something better (which would then require doing further research and making comparisons between Vegas and other brands' products), it'd be an easier write-off than getting Vegas Pro 10 and finding you never really use it's more expensive (but not necessarily relevant or useful) features. So, going by that comparison chart, the only difference between Platinum 11 and Platinum 11 Production Suite, is the Platinum 11 Production Suite has a tutorial DVD, a few more effects and soundtracks, and more elaborate sound-editing features, whatever that's worth. Doesn't look like much of price difference in any case.
Not making any recommendations, just putting some info into the mix for you. Except to say, whatever you get, download it and try it before you buy it so you can make sure it does what you want it to do. Pretty sure they all have at least one-off trial periods. You could even trial the more expensive software just to see if it really is worth it for you.