Video editing Software

Video editing Software

Video editing software can help users do everything from shortening home movies to creating professional full-length feature films. Video editing software allows users to modify, edit, concatenate and add effects to digital video.

Home Video Editing Software

Low priced solutions are available for nearly everything a home user would like to do with video editing. Products are available for Windows and Macintosh systems as well as Linux. Some of the features available for home editors are the ability to add transition effects such as fades and wipes, text captioning including animated or three-dimensional text, other special video effects and even music and sound effects.

Select pieces of video to play, cut segments out, rearrange sections of video and combine video from different sources. Most modern video editing solutions allow you to point and click along a timeline to sequence video into a final product. These software products are generally designed for novice users and have easy to understand interfaces. Add music, effects and sound effects along the same timeline. Some products even allow users to speed up or slow down video sequences; create your own slo-mo sports footage with this functionality. Even for those who are not interested in fancy effects, editing software is very useful; home video footage is far more enjoyable to view when the redundant, shaky and dead air pieces have been removed. Save a finished product in a variety of video formats on a hard disk or burn it to DVD.

While most home solutions do not offer chromakey functionality (also known as green screen technology), there are even some low-priced software products with this ability.

High-End Desktop Video Editing Software

High-end video solutions allow those who need a little more functionality to easily master it. Videographers, who frequently offer services such as creating wedding and special events videos, often use high-end desktop solutions to create their products. This powerful software is usually faster than low-end solutions, allowing the user to process large files, representing many minutes of video, quickly. These products usually offer more professional graphic overlays and effects than low-end solutions.

Desktop video editing software may require additional hardware, so ensure your system is compatible with the recommended requirements of any purchase.

Professional Video Editing Software

Professional video editing software is designed to aid professional television and video producers. Most of the software sold at this level is prohibitively expensive for the home user. In addition, it is more difficult to master; users often take courses to learn the intricacies of using this software.

Professional editing software may run on desktop systems, but frequently uses large-scale computers such as the Silicon Graphics Workstations commonly used by the entertainment industry. Professional software can often handle multiple video input streams, realtime switching and compositing and even high definition video. Customize the software controls, correct colors, compress video and render final video output to a variety of formats. Professional level software allows users to attach custom soundtracks including stereo and surround sound, audio equalization, automation gain and audio effects.

By Ann Mcdonald           


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