SpeedEDIT supports drag-and-drop of (to name only a few of the major formats it supports) AVI, WMV/WMA, WAV, DV, QuickTime, MPEG-1/2/4, JPEG, PSD, PNG, TGA and TIFF, with full support for transparency and alpha channels, both from within its own interface and from Windows Explorer panes.
SpeedEDIT can render to all these formats as well, and can produce MPEG-2 streams, compliant with DVD standards, ready to be imported directly into your DVD Authoring package of choice!
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Working in SpeedEDIT is as simple as dragging video, still, audio or effect clips into your project, abutting them to cut between them, or overlapping their "Heads" and "Tails" (beginning and endings) to cross-dissolve smoothly between them. This is what editors have come to expect in the highest-end, digital nonlinear editing programs, but the way that SE plays your project, instantly, without needing to pre-render with foreground processing power, when you press "Play," simply exceeds what most of us have come to expect.
As with every nonlinear video-editing program, with Timeline, 'VCR Controls', Tools, Files and the all-important preview window, screen-space is always at a premium. So, while SpeedEDIT does a good job of letting you work without feeling too cramped on one monitor, I highly recommend a multi-monitor system when driving any nonlinear editor. One great thing about SpeedEDIT is that its main component windows are "undocked," and can be moved, placed or sized anywhere you like, across all your system monitors.
SpeedEDIT offers unlimited tracks on which you can layer, composite and add effects. And each track can contain video and audio... so you can put what you need, wherever it makes most sense to you!
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Even though SE is billed as a video editor, it offers a lot of solid, powerful tools more commonly found in compositing packages, including Chroma and Luma Keyers, impressive in their abilities and controls. (Just right-click and drag on the Key-Color box onto any part of your windows interface, including the real-time video-out, to select the key color!)
