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No, I did not live-blog, live-tweet, or video-tape the Allston-Brighton District 9 City Councilor Candidates Forum Thursday night.. But three other people did. Harry Mattison (of the Allston Brighton Community Blog) joined the twitter ...

Aural Damage: Leonard Cohen - Brighton (2008-11-28) (DVD)

In extracting the video and audio from the original disc it became apparent that there are a couple of glitches where a few frames were somehow dropped, I guess during the original authoring from the look of the original VOBS. ...

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Which Video Editing Software Should You Select?

How to select the best video editing software can seem to be an overwhelming job when you see the array of products on the market. Nonetheless with a little assistance to remain focused on what is important you should be able to manage a good choice.

One of the important points to bear in mind is:
"What is it that I am actually going to carry out with the video editing software that I choose?"

The response to that question has to stay topmost in your mind when deciding upon the best video editing software for you.

All of the main home user video editing software companies offer camcorder to DVD video editing solutions that make them just about inseparable from each other. So concentrate on what you really require.

Like any other competitive market, video editing software is caught up in a never ending race to keep up with technology as it develops and still make the product seem "sexy" to the customer. The point is you probably don't want to buy video editing software. What you want is a finished video production.

Video File Formats
The leading thing to ascertain is what is the format of the material you will be editing and what will be the formats that you will want to produce finally. Input will be dictated by the camcorder or DVD recorder you use or what the origin of your files are. Take note of the format your device records in and make sure that one is covered first.
Then realistically take a look at how you would most likely distribute your finished videos. DVD? Blu-Ray? Uploading to YouTube or similar? Be certain the video software you select can produce to the format you require.

The first thing you need to do in selecting the best video editing software for you is to identify what type of video files you will be using most and what type of video file you will be producing most. That covers the foundation of what you will be doing with the software and must remain as your main focal point.

Video Transitions
Transitions are the little inserts that go in between two clips to make the scene change. If you look at a movie you will notice when the scene changes it sometimes cuts to the next scene with no transition, this is called cut or a straight cut. It fades to black th
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en fades into the next scene from black called a cross fade through black. And last of all the two scenes sort of melt into each other softly and this one is called a cross fade or dissolve. That's it, the total array of transitions you customarily see in a professional production!

All video editing software programs offer at least fifty transitions each. Newcomers use all the provided transitions because they look cool the first time they see them. In reality no-one wants to return to their home ever again in case the new project is anything like the last one! Disregard transitions as a deciding point, every video editing software program has some and they all have more than you will need.

Video Overlay
An overlay track is the ability to set one video in the background and have another able to be seen on top of it. That is the "picture in picture" or "split screen" effect you see in movies or on TV. You can also add subtitles to overlay tracks or images or other things to get really creative. You need about five for good control but you would never use more than that otherwise, once again, no-one is going to want to watch the mess you have created!

Sound
There is no video editing software at the consumer level that offers really superb audio manipulation and features. They are not audio editing programs they are video editing programs. Some offer reasonably good control and some do not, if you really want professional audio features you should have specialist software to do that.

A standard requirement would be the handling of Dolby Stereo as well as 5:1 Surround. The program should offer two audio tracks to play with in addition to the sound in the video track. That provides sufficient leeway for adding narration, music or other effects.

Smart Render
Rendering is the expression applied when the video editing software is assembling the finished file of your newly created video. Up until rendering, in any consumer level video editing software, all the cuts, additions, changes and adjustments you have been making are "virtual." The original footage is never touched. So rendering puts all that together and produces your final video file in the format you have chosen as the viewing format.

Any of the greatly compressed formats such as MPEG2 (for DVDs), MPEG4 etc regularly suffer from reduction of quality when they are re-rendered. The degree of loss of quality varies but it is vital that any video editing software you choose has the ability to identify those files it does not need to re-render and simply replicate those sections resulting in the highest quality possible being retained. It should also offer reliable control over the properties of the final video.

Bear in mind, stay with the basics, don't get tricked by the bright shiny objects you don't need and you will make a good selection!

By: Rob Robilliard

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Rob is a long time video and video editing enthusiast. Others have referred to Rob as more of a video tragic than anything else however he chooses to rise above such things.
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