Video Editing software

[Fred]

Now the footballs nearly over and I'm looking for something to cure the boredom, Mrs Fred suggested that I produce an edited version of our 2012, yes that long ago, Florida holiday videos. She bought me some software 2 years ago (Magix Movie Edit Pro 2014 Premium) to edit them with but I just haven't got round to it.

I have some experience of using this software but just wanted to know how I could copy online videos and use them to make it look a bit more professional. I'm thinking along the lines of incorporating a video of an external/internal view of aeroplane taking off/descent for example. I have found an example on YouTube but don't know if I can use it and if so how I can copy the video and put it in the right format. As you can tell I don't know much about formats but my original recordings were on AVCHD (Panasonic SD90) and I believe once rendered will create an Mpeg4 result.

I'd be glad for anyone's advice.

 

[Mr Plow]

You'll probably want to use Royalty Free video clips if you plan on sharing it at any point on social media platforms just to be safe. Check out https://www.videoblocks.com/ it seems you can download 7 clips for free during the 7 day free trial they offer and they have footage of jets taking off (just type 'take off' in the search box, second result looks good).

 

[Fred]

Thanks MP. After a bit of colour correction, I decided to use one of my existing clips, which I took originally of a Virgin 747 from the departure lounge. I followed up your videolocks suggestion which looks good but decided to use clipconverter.cc, where I entered a url of a video clip I wanted, selected a desired format and it downloaded to my hard drive. It was then possible for me to import and edit the clip successfully. I do not intend to upload the final film. Thanks once again for your advice.