Video Enhancing Software?

[Rock2HAL]

Hi. I have a bunch of videos of my friends who happen to be musicians/bands/etc. However, I need a really good but decent priced or even free software that corrects shakiness of camcorder, reduces/removes "noise," fixes dark video and other lighting issues, fixes reddish color from a stage that they play on, etc. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[hawkeye60]

The least expensive video editor that will come anywhere close to what you are looking to do is Adobe Premier Elements. The learning curve is a little steep though, if you're new to video editing.

[Rock2HAL]

Thank you for your help. Yes I am new to this video editing. Even new to the photo editing stuff. Thanks again.

[secretagents]

You can have a look at virtualdub which is free and its many free filters if it's only corrections you want to do.

http://www.virtualdub.org/

Deshaker for virtualdub here for example :

http://www.guthspot.se/video/deshaker.htm

Also there is avisynth which is also free but using this one is not for the faint hearted as it is only a frame server dll which requires scripting but like vdub it has tons of add-ons filters for enhancing videos, etc...

http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/Main_Page

Virtualdub filters can also be used in Wax btw. And Wax is a rather powerful free video compositing software.

http://www.debugmode.com/wax/

[Kraellin]

yup, virtual dub is what you want to check out first.

[Rock2HAL]

It's not compatible with Vista which is what I have. I have used PowerDirector from CyberLink before and liked it but didn't know if there was a better one out there that's compatible with Vista and pretty easy to use. Thanks for the replies though.