Virtual Edit Editor's Review

Take control of your digital video content with this must have video editing tool.


Today, thanks to the prevalence of smartphones and digital still and video cameras, more and more people are taking high quality home video.  Thanks to sites like YouTube and Facebook, those people are readily able to store and share that content with their friends.  Now thanks to applications like Virtual Edit, that video can have a polished, professional look and feel. Virtual Edit is a semi-professional software video editing package for Windows and its aimed at the ambitious to the video novices, who want to produce material with a slick and professional look.

Virtual Edit is a video editing tool that can interface directly with your digital video camera with a DV-out, or the video that you've imported via any other process. As long as you can get the video on your PC, you can use Virtual Edit to tweak it.  Virtual Edit runs on both laptop and desktop PCs running Microsoft Windows 7, Vista or XP.

With its Effects Pre-Processor, Virtual Edit can change color balance, gamma, brightness and use other professional, visual effects in order to give your work a polished, professional look. Virtual Edit also supports a variety of different transitions, allowing you to move from one clip to the next with style, including the universally accepted dissolve.


Pluses: Easy to use, professional effects, accurate editing, audio and video synchronization, affordable

Drawbacks/flaws: Novices will need to practice a bit before they understand all of the required terms and tools

In conclusion: Virtual Edit is an awesome application targeted at those users who want to create home movies, short films, college projects or something for the web with a bit of polish and a professional touch. It has the power to perform frame-accurate editing, allowing you to easily sync your video to music or other sound track. It's very easy to tweak and view-tweak and view your work to ensure precise artistic timing.