For many
home, event and professional video and
movie makers, editing the video together
is probably the most difficult part of
creating a great and entertaining
project
Not only
it is complicated, it takes a lot of
time and patience and is not always a
lot of fun. In my experience, doing a
good job of editing a complex video
takes at least one hour for every minute
of your finished video. If you are
working on a commercial project, with
sophisticated layering, effects, titles
and audio mixing, it can take a LOT
longer than that.
Wouldn’t
it be wonderful to have a little helper,
a genie or an smart angel, who could
come in and edit your videos for you?
They could review all your raw footage,
extract the bad footage from the good,
clean it up and then cut it together to
the beat of your favorite music and
maybe even add a few effects and opening
and closing titles and credits.
The good
news is that that software exists. The
better news is that it works. The bad
news is that it is not perfect. The
better news is that you can usually take
the automatically cut and edited footage
and then fine-tune it.
Even
though I am a professional editor and
have cut and edit numerous projects, I
often use automatic editing a solution
for my personal projects as well as for
quickie projects for my kids and
relatives. I know it might sound like
heresy, but it works.
However,
most professional editors who have not
tried one of the better automatic
editing products swear that nothing can
replace a good editor's eye and brain
for creating video. And I must confess
that years ago, when I first tried
automatic video editing programs, I had
the same opinion. No way could something
like this replace ME!
muvee autoProducer is the fastest, easiest and most fun way to transform raw videos and photos into professional-looking productions.
muvee News & Developments
muvee Technologies
(www.muvee.com) announced the release of
its photoGenie stylePack, which features
three customizable superStyles for use
with muvee’s instant home movie
software. The photoGenie styles are the
first styles to allow users to customize
features like color, flow and speed in
order to create a one-of-a-kind,
professional-quality muvee from their
photos and videos in just minutes.
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September 2007 - muvee
Launches photoAlbum stylePack With Three New
superStyles for Making Photo Movies to Music
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muvee announced the latest
version of it’s muveeNow application (companion software for digital
cameras) with significantly enhanced movie sharing capabilities. muveeNow
2.2 is fully integrated with YouSendIt’s online file delivery service,
making it easier than ever for users to send their movies via email to
friends and family directly from within the muveeNow application
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Let me
introduce you to muvee.
According to Pete Kellock,
founder/strategist/inventor/muveeographer
of muvee, one of the leading creators of
automatic video editing solutions,
“Automatic video editing puts many of
the techniques and tricks of pro video
editor into software. By doing so we
can allow the average non-pro to make
much better productions than they can
with a traditional linear editor (and
thousands of times faster). But we
would never claim that we can do as good
a job as an experienced pro editor
who spends hours or days editing.
The main times we're used by pros is
when they need quick results - for
example to create rough cuts to suss out
what a client wants, to experiment with
the material, or to create something
more-or-less immediate, such as shooting
guests arriving at an event and showing
them a completed video half an hour
later.”
So how does it work? It’s not magic or
voodoo - it’s just a matter of great
algorithms and sophisticated
programming.
