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Recent Developments In Digital Video

When producing video for some sort of public viewing, editing is one of the most important steps. Put really simply this is the process of cutting portions of the video, while deleting other parts and, changing the sequence of shots in such a way that you actually tell a story instead of just showing a series of loosely related shots.

Therefore the best video editing software is at the top of everybody’s list.

Editing and manipulating video is a demanding task that requires a powerful computer. A high end personal computer is usually good enough, but always bear in mind that without adequate performance, you will start to get grey hairs rather quickly.

Unlike let’s say word processing, video editing is a hard-drive intensive task and you will definitely want to have at least a couple of gigabytes of RAM memory to work with. Using up 60 GB of hard drive space for just one project is certainly not unheard of – particularly if you start playing with material shot in high definition. It really is a wonderful advancement of technology that you can do professional film cutting on a home computer these days, but it still holds true that the more memory your computer has and the faster your CPU is, the smoother (and more enjoyable) the job will be.

What modern video editing software is about more specifically is digital nonlinear editing. This simply means that, you use the computer’s hard drive rather than tape to store and edit your shots. The big benefit of this is obviously the ability to arrange your shot in any order you like very quickly. Anything that could be done on an old fashioned linear system can be done much better and with more flair with NLE.

There are many video editing software applications out there, both free and commercial ones, for both Windows PCs and Apple Macintosh. As for Linux, video editing is still one of the weaker aspects of the operating system, but the situation may of course improve at any time.

The ways in which a member of contemporary society can catch important memories and events in moving images is almost mind blowing – invloving anyithing from a mobile phone to a high end, HD capable camera that will allow for eventually enjoying the finished movie on a 50 inch television screen. As these technologies are getting more advance and cheaper at the same time, the 21st century will certainly contain a whole new breed of independent movie makers.

Thus, hopefully amusing digital short films can be created by more people than ever before, using a digital camera and high quality video editing software.

Certainly a very interesting developement for anyone interested in video production..