I downloaded a free trial of Adobe Premere Elements 3.0. Unfortunately it puts an Adobe logo on the top right of the video
. The retail version doesn't have the logo. It costs about $100 & has a $30 rebate.
It's a relatively simple and powerful video editing program, but I can't figure out how to improve the quality of the QuickTime DV-NTSC output. I've tried adjusting all the Quicktime settings to their maximum quality, without any visible improvement.
I'm going to post a question on the Adobe forum, but worst case scenerio is we render our clips in Max as uncompressed AVIs or Targa files, edit them in Premiere, save a single uncompressed AVI, then use Max to convert that to a Quicktime DV-NTSC file. It sounds complicated but it's actually pretty simple and the final output looks great.