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Video Editing Systems - Hardware and software
Professional Gear
professional
editing software
professional
editing systems
professional software for
special effects and animation
Other
professional video editing gear and accessories
Home and Prosumer Gear
consumer
level editing systems
prosumer
editing systems
turnkey editing
systems ( computer, hardware, software and everything you need to
start producing video)
video capture and
Firewire cards
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Dixon's Digital Video Editing Software Gallery
Software applications for digital video editing (and some
with DVD authoring), organized from consumer to professional. Each
application includes a brief description, and information on the latest
released version. Product descriptions and images are summarized from
published information.
Ulead
VideoStudio Review - Ready to get started with video
editing? Maybe you've some video that you'd like to make
into a nice little movie production, complete with
transitions between scenes, background music, title text,
and some fun video effects. And you can share your movies as
video files for computer playback, or post for friends to
view over the Web, or download to a iPod to take with you,
or even burn on DVD to watch in the living room.
REVIEW -
Sony Vegas 7+DVD is a professional editing platform
capable of taking an editor from capture to export. The
Vegas7+DVD includes Vegas 7, DVD Architect 4, and Dolby
Digital AC-3 encoding software. Vegas allows for real-time
acquisition and editing of DV, HDV, SD/HD-SDI, and all XDCAM
formats. Vegas 7 has the capability to fine-tune audio with
the precision of a digital audio workstation. DVD Architect
4 provides the capability to author surround sound and
dual-layer DVDs.
more
Apple
Goes Pro: Review of Final
Cut Pro 4 & DVD Studio Pro 2
Adobe Premiere
Elements -
read the review by Doug Dixon
Looking for
the best video editing program on the market? There's a lot
of choices but if you want to make it in Hollywood, you got
to know Avid. Check out the new and improved Avid Express DV.
Review
Blaze
Media Pro 5 - All in one video editor, player and conversion software
Discreet cleaner
XL - compress and clean up your video
Canopus ProCoder
Express - Powerful Video Conversion at a GREAT Price
How to use Sonic DVDit
5 to create customized DVDs - by Douglas Dixon of Manifest Tech
Become
a Certified Apple Video Editing Professional-
3 NEW Books about Final Cut Pro, Shake 3 and
Logic 6.
Edit
Your Video on the Road Use
Flix to create customized video players
Cleaner
6 - for Macintosh - 4Video review
Learn
to Use Adobe Premiere 6.5
If
you are a video hobbyist or prosumer, and need a
rock-steady and affordable video editing software package
that's easy to use, you should check out the new and improved Ulead
VideoStudio 9.
Read
the review by Doug Dixon.
Professional
editing systems
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The new Sony
DSR-45A DVCAM VTR offers comprehensive and
intelligent features that make it perfect for linear
and nonlinear edit environments both. The machine
offers the ever-present DV/Firewire/i.LINK
connection. It also gives you XLR audio output. For
integration in linear suites, Component, Y/C,
Composite inputs and outputs are present. Reference
video input is there (in the composite input BNC) as
is RS-422 and RS-232 (and LANC) machine control
connections.
There are time code
BNC connectors for input and out. Convenience
precludes the Monitor Video and Audio connections.
Likewise the built-in LCD monitor for menu set-up
and video/audio confidence. In addition, the DSR-45P
offers one-touch duplication and the ability to
preset user bits and time code, all in a compact and
lightweight package. The DSR-45A features a larger
2.5-inch LCD screen than the previous mode. All
other features, functions and connectors are the
same as before.
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Canopus
DVStorm SE Plus
Inputs, captures, edits and outputs analog and digital
video. Can capture audio only (without video). Over 24 real-time video
filters including color correction, chroma and luma keying. Over 10 real
time title and graphic tracks. Separate breakout box for video and audio
connections. About $1300.
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Dazzle DV.Now AV - complete kit
for those who want to edit both analog and DV video. Include PCI-slot
analog capture card and Adobe Premiere software. Review |
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Matrox
RT2500
Matrox provides a variety of professional
and prosumer editing systems. These include RT
Mac, RT2500 and new RT.X10.
The are combined card and software solutions - they also include the
latest versions of Adobe Premiere.
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Pinnacle
Pro-ONE
High performance capture, editing
and output of analog and DV video; provides including real-time mage
stabilization, hundreds of real time effects, layering and 3D
transitions, real-time keyframing and multi-track audio editing.
Includes Premiere video editing software as well as TitleDeko RT,
Hollywood FX RT, and Impression DVD-SE. Around $1200
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Pinnacle
Pro-ONE
High performance capture, editing
and output of analog and DV video; provides including real-time mage
stabilization, hundreds of real time effects, layering and 3D
transitions, real-time keyframing and multi-track audio editing.
Includes Premiere video editing software as well as TitleDeko RT,
Hollywood FX RT, and Impression DVD-SE. Around $1200
Do you need some help when producing
videocasts for live events?
The new TV One C2-7210 makes it a lot
easier to make the show happen. The CORIO EXP Front Panel
takes the difficulty of running a live event in HD away with
48 easy to use push-buttons, multi-way navigation and LCD
screen. It caters specifically to those in the live event
industry with its video processing capabilities such as:
Edge Blending, Seamless Switching with cross fades, two
Independent Output Channels in HD and Dual PIP with up to
five layers of video.
more
Professional
software for composing, special effects and animation
Outerspace Software's BluffTitler
DX9 is an inexpensive (around $35) and easy way to add 3D text
animations and effects to videos and photos. BluffTitler DX9 uses
Microsoft’s DirectX 9 technology and 3D hardware acceleration to
create broadcast-quality, animated 3D titles in realtime – results are
shown instantly, without rendering. Animations can be played in realtime
by the BluffTitler player and screensaver or exported to video and
picture formats for use in videos, multimedia presentations and
websites. BluffTitler makes
it easy to create dazzling 3D titles from any TrueType font with a wide
variety of bevel styles and texturing options – including
high-resolution JPEG, BMP and PNG textures, animated MPEG and AVI movie
textures and reflection mapping. Still or moving images can be imported
as backgrounds or morphed into a variety of animated 3D shapes such as
spheres, cubes, cylinders and donuts. Animated point, ambient and
directional lights illuminate the scene. Any number of independent
layers containing 3D text, video, pictures, particles and plasma effects
can be created and animated independently. For more info or to download
the free demo www.blufftitler.us
Combustion 3 for Windows (Mac
version as well) - is a full featured solution for motion graphics,
compositing and visual effects. Discreet combustion 3 offers the creative tools, speed and interactivity that professionals need and artists crave. Paint, animation, editing and 3D compositing are combined in
a single integrated environment.
New features in Version 3 include: RE:Flex - the free-form warper and morphing solution
is now bundled with combustion. Purchased separately, it's a $600 US value.
Instead of using your editing software, Edit Operator now enables
editors to assemble clips complete with transitions within combustion Design JavaScript-based Expressions
can create complex animations without having to keyframe each parameter.
Macromedia Flash animations using the full power of the combustion vector paint and animation tools.
The new version also enables you to create customized brushes as needed.
Why use combustion for your special effects?
Consumer
level editing - reviews and articles
Adobe Premiere
Elements -
read the review by Doug Dixon
Compress
Your Video for the Net
Canopus ProCoder
Express - Powerful Video Conversion at a GREAT Price
Apple
Final Cut Express Review
The
Importance of Bandwidth for Internet Video
Create
Your Net Movies Using Vegas Video 4 - Review
NVIDEA PersonalCinema - for consumers; it is a
Personal Video Recording system that also enables you to do video
capture, editing and output. It can serve as the central unit for a
remote controlled computer-based home entertainment system. more
Apple
iMovie - everything you need to know
Magix
Video - video editing for for newbies and professionals
How to Edit Sony's new
MICROMV Video Format
The 1-2-3 Guide to Creating
Your Own Internet Movies and Videos
Nova
Video Explosion Deluxe - Maybe the best ever inexpensive video editor?
Microsoft Movie Maker
2- Maybe the easiest way to create your own movies
Free
Video Creation & Editing Software
Prosumer
editing software and packages
Apple
Final Cut Express Review
Miraizon's new Cinematize 2 is a
Macintosh-based software package that turns the
difficult process of extracting audio and video clips
from a DVD into a fun and easy experience. Cinematize
saves extracted files in a format compatible with
standard multimedia editing software such as QuickTime, iMovie, and Final Cut. With Cinematize 2, users can now
select start and end points down to the video frame
level, making it possible to extract a segment as short
as a fraction of a second and as long as an entire
movie.
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PinnacleDV500Plus
Captures and edits analog and DV
video; provides real-time image correction, 16x9 support, and real-time
video preview while creating titles. Also provides real-time multi-track
audio editing. Includes Premiere video editing software as well as
TitleDekoRT, DVD-SE and AlphaMatic. Around $600
Ulead
MediaStudio 6.5 - (software only)
an extremely powerful program for home and
prosumers,
as well as professionals. The basic editing and production components
are simple to master - advanced professional components including the CG
and titling are powerful and require a bit of time to master. Strongly
recommended for Windows based computers. more
turnkey editing
systems ( computer, hardware, software and everything you need to
start producing video)
Computers -
Desktops & Laptops
Other
professional video editing gear and accessories
New eight screen LCD Video Monitor from
PANORAMAdtv, the video division of Wohler Technologies. The MON8-1
contains eight 1.8" LCD screens, each one with a composite video
input, a loop-through output and termination switches - and all this in
a compact 1U of rack space. Despite its small screen size, the image
quality is surprisingly good - positioning this new product as the ideal
tool for quick confidence checks on multiple video feeds whist requiring
only the absolute minimum of valuable rack space. The MON8-1, widely
anticipated by the industry and originally to shown at IBC, will make
its first major debut at the upcoming SMPTE conference & exhibition
in New York this November. http://www.panoramadtv.com/overviews/MON8-1.html
PRODUCT INFORMATION (PDF Datasheet): http://www.panoramadtv.com/pdf/MON8-1.pdf
Do you need some help when producing
videocasts for live events?
The new TV One C2-7210 makes it a lot
easier to make the show happen. The CORIO EXP Front Panel
takes the difficulty of running a live event in HD away with
48 easy to use push-buttons, multi-way navigation and LCD
screen. It caters specifically to those in the live event
industry with its video processing capabilities such as:
Edge Blending, Seamless Switching with cross fades, two
Independent Output Channels in HD and Dual PIP with up to
five layers of video.
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