If simply "joining" clips is all you want to do, the Canon EOS Movie Uitility (included with your camera) will do that. It's a bit primative though and not a very full-featured photo editer.
The popular movie editing programs are (depending on which OS you run):
- Adobe Premier Pro -- but that's only available as a "subscription". To subscribe to just a single app (such as Premier Pro) is $15.99/month but requires a minimum 12 month (1 year) subscription.... they wont let you just buy one month and be done. You can subscribe to the full Adobe suite of apps for $39.99/month. That's available on Windows or Mac.
- Sony Vegas Pro -- that's $599 and is only available on Windows only.
- Apple Final Cut Pro -- that's $299 and is available on Mac only.
- Apple iMovie -- this is more of the home-users version of video editing, but I don't think Apple even charges for this anymore. It's included when you buy a Mac. Considering it's free... it's surprisingly good.
I'm not a Windows user, but I'm sure there are a lot of movie editing apps available for Windows and many of them are probably even free (e.g. Windows Movie Maker).
The Canon software will let you split and merge clips. But full freatured software will let you build titles, transitions, effects, correct video issues, apply stabilization, add in audio tracks (music tracks, voice narration tracks, etc.) The higher end apps have features like multi-cam support (for more serious productions.)
Tim Campbell
5D III, 5D IV, 60Da
