If you are thinking of buying a video editing software, go for something that is already proven and tested. Try Ulead Video Editing Softwares. They have already released two versions:

1. Ulead Video Studion 11 Plus Easy & Powerful Video Editing + DVD Authoring
2. Ulead Video Studio® 11 Video Editing & DVD Authoring Made Easy

If you’re not sure about buying it yet, you can always get the trial version. Just go to their official website, look for free trials and that’s it! You have it! Once you’re decided to purchase, go to Ulead Store and you can buy them online.

Happy editing!!!

If the visual part of a movie is perfect but the sound is not, then the movie looks amateurish. Fortunately, Premiere offers sophisticated tools for getting the sound right. We’ve already discussed how to add new sound tracks to the timeline. Now you need to understand how to adjust each sound track so that everything sounds perfect. On every sound track, there is an arrow icon. Clicking it will expand the view and make an adjustment area for the sound track available. What you will normally do is listen to the sound track and “even out” or “sweeten” the sound by adjusting things so that the sound is uniform throughout your entire piece. -Source

Once you have your shots figured out, you need a place to arrange them in the proper order and hook them together. The place where you do that is called a timeline. You line the shots up in sequential order. Then you can play them as a sequence.

With just three concepts — capture, shots and timeline — you can make a movie. It will not be fancy, but it will be 10 times better than watching raw footage. If you prefer a longer vide but do not have enough shots to use, you can always increase your timeline by inserting transitions. -Source

For those beginners who would like to learn more on the basics first, I suggest that you try to use Windows Movie Maker. WMM is video creating/editing software that is included in recent versions of Microsoft Windows. It contains features such as effects, transitions, titles/credits, audio track, timeline narration, and Auto Movie. The “Drag and Drop” technique is applied here. New effects and transitions can be made and existing ones can be modified using XML code. You can freely import existing files to your storyboard. The accepted formats for import are .WMV/.ASF, .MPG (MPEG-1), .AVI (DV-AVI), .WMA, .WAV, and .MP3.

Once in place on the timeline, right-click on the transition to adjust it if you like. When you play your movie, you will not be able to immediately see how the transition will actually look. That’s because transitions take some extra processing to complete the effect. – Source

Linear Editing

Linear Editing is the process is basically mechanical in nature. Here, you can easily edit
using Camcorders, VCR’s, Edit Controllers, Titlers, and Mixers .
In Linear Editing the editing is performed one cut at a time or in linear steps (or a series of programmed cuts) to its conclusion.
Linear Editing consists of three main categories:

1. In-Camera Editing:
Here the video shots are prepared in a way that they are shot in order and of correct time length. This process does not require any additional equipment other than the Camera recorder itself, but it does require good shooting and organizational skills at the time of the shoot.

To be continued…

Once you have all of your footage into your machine, you need a way to select the parts that you are going to use. For example, let’s say that you want to include a scene in your birthday movie that shows the candles on the birthday cake being lit. You filmed this activity from three angles and have three minutes of raw footage total. But in the final movie you are going to have 15 seconds of the movie devoted to this scene, in the form of three shots:

• A 3-second shot showing a match being lit
• A 5-second shot showing a close-up of one candle on the cake being lit
• A 7-second shot of the cake with all the candles lit being carried into the room

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Linear video editing has three main categories. In-camera editing involves taking shots in correct order and length using no other equipment but the camcorder. This requires good shooting and organizational skills.

Assemble Editing involves taking shots in no specific order during shooting. Afterwards, those shots that are not needed are removed and the remaining ones are assembled. This category uses at least a camcorder and VCR.

Assemble editing has two types – roll editing and insert editing. Insert editing involves the recording of new material over existing footage. Here, the unwanted part of the footage is “overwritten” with a new one.

Adobe Systems Inc. was founded in 1982 and based in San Jose, California. The company was recognized by Fortune magazine as one of the most outstanding places to work.

Pinnacle Systems Inc. was founded in1986 and is based in California. They completed their IPO back in November of 1994.

Avid Technology Inc. was founded in 1987 and is based in Tewksbury, Massachusetts.  In 1993, they became a publicly traded company.

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