Excellent features and performance, but it’s pricey and you need a suitably powerful PC to make the most of it.

Vegas has a huge array of editing features for the money, plus powerful bundled DVD authoring.

Authoring software for professional DVD creation

HD editing finally heads to the desktop in this major update to a favourite consumer editing package.

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It lacks HDCP and isn’t for general home use, but remains the best if you need accurate colours.

A genuine step forward for the laptop, with unbelievable capabilities for the price, plus an ultra-low weight.

There was a time when Pinnacle dominated the PC video-editing market. But, after its initial success with the DV500, the advent of sophisticated realtime editing seemed to leave the company behind. While it was a good product, the company’s Pro-ONE arrived when competitive products from Matrox and Canopus had been available for some time. The Pinnacle Edition PRO 5 is an entirely different matter.

Canopus first made its name providing top-notch 3Dfx cards. Realising the deadly competitiveness and pace of that market, however, Canopus has moved on and repositioned itself as a company specialising in video editing.

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Video editing can make or break those home movies of your latest adventure or that important business presentation. Until recently you only had the choice of some expensive professional, or some fairly crude software packages, but over recent years Ulead has put video editing within the reach of most video camera users, and at a reasonable price.

There was a time when semi-professional video editors and home-video enthusiasts had little choice but Adobe Premiere. Back then, video capture and output depended on proprietary hardware, which often only worked with its bundled software.

The menu setup panel is where DVD menu layouts are customised with thumbnails, backgrounds and music.

A new interface, smart albums, guided editing and photo merging keep Photoshop Elements ahead of the pack

Great real-time performance, particularly with high definition footage. But the EDIUS Pro software still needs a few more features to usurp the competition.

PowerDirector 3 is the latest version of CyberLink’s DV editing application aimed at home video enthusiasts. It has been radically overhauled since the previous version 2.5, and includes many new features as well as a revamped interface. On the capture front, a new quick-scan option enables fast pre-capture preview of an entire 60-minute DV tape in just six minutes. There’s also a new title editor, Picture-in-Picture (PiP) motion effects can be easily added, a three-track audio mixer provides real-time mixing during playback, and you can now record voiceover narration during timeline playback of a project.

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AVCHD support and some useful new effects keep this as the leading entry-level video editor.

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Not content with dominating the semi-professional end of video editing, Matrox has reworked its 'Power of X' technology for a more humble audience.