Remarkable Manipulation of Video Right At Home - By: Michael Hawkins

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During the last decade or so the possibilities for the home video enthusiast to produce really brilliant end results have seen frequent improvement. With the average run of the mill PCs being sold today, it is possible to have a private video editing studio that is almost of a professional quality. Although it seems very long ago when you think about it, it is worth remembering that this was nothing but a wet dream to video enthusiasts in the early 90s. What follows is a basic walkthrough on what modert video editing solutions can do. A New Level Of Convenience Non-linear editing is the term used for the process used by state-of-the-art video editing software. This means that your are able to jump to any part of your material - end, beginning or somewhere in the middle - unlike the older (tape based) linear editing where you had to go to the specific location of a particular shot manually. The most obvious benefit over the older systems is of course the one of speed, but also one of quality. In linear editing the material often had to be transferred to another tape, prior to being copied to the master tape. Each time the information is copied a certain generation loss happens, which means that the quality becomes worse. A non-linear system maintains the original quality of the recording, as it is really the original material that is played back in the sequence the editing software dictates A Fast Enough Computer There is no denying that you will need a powerful computer in order to work with video. Nonetheless, if you have bought your computer during the last couple of years or so, and not skimped on processing power and mass memory, your computer can probably handle video editing just fine. A slightly older computer may also be brought up to par by upgrading critical components such as the processor and memory units. Weather you prefer to edit video on a PC or a Macintosh is mostly a matter of personal preference these days, as newer incarnations of both plaforms are well up to the task. A VideoStudio in Your Home The choice of hardware (camera, computer etc.) and software is largely determined by how much you are willing to spend and what your level of ambition is. If your video hobbe is mostly for personal use, satisfying your own eyes (and ears) is of course all that matters. But Then, if the end result has to be of commercially viable quality, it will require a bigger investment on your part. Still, as prices on consumer friendly high defnin cameras now have dropped to very affordable levels, and there is more choice among video editing software than ever before, home video makers at levels really have more room for creativity than ever before.