Tools Used In Video Editing
TOOLS USED IN VIDEO EDITING
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Video editing is a way of arranging visual elements on video into a more perfect assembly during production. By removing unwanted or unnecessary footage and piecing together the parts in a more thoughtful way, a film or movie even a home movie can become a much more enjoyable piece of entertainment. To accomplish this task, several tools are used, these tools are program that are used for editing full length videos and shorter video clips. To edit a video, just install any of the video editing software into your computer and begin to use it. Some of these tools used in editing video include:-1. Final Cut Pro. Final Cut Pro is a digital video editing software program that has combined the professional level of features with the kind of interface that is practical for those new to the digital video process to learn. It is a great video editing tool, used for chopping, cutting and adding special effects. It is easy to use and the video can be saved in different formats. 2. iMovie. iMovie is also one of the video editing software that runs on Mac computers as part of the iLife package. Everything is included in iMovie, from the ability to add text and make edits to the addition of video effects.3. Windows Movie Maker. Windows Movie Maker is also a free video editing software program that comes with Windows PCs instead. It is built a little more around the Timeline model, except that you can arrange clips in an even easier Storyboard mode. Windows Movie Maker is mostly designed to simplify video editing jobs. With Window Movie Maker, you can accomplish task like including things such as video effects, video transitions, text, and export options. You can create, edit and add special effects to your home movie and share them with friends and family.4. Jing Project. Jing Project is a TechSmith’s web-based video/screen capture tool. It is useful and lighter. With Jing project, you can capture something on screen and share it instantly, using captions.5. VirtualDub. This is one of the most interesting free video editing programs; it is mainly used for capturing and processing video. It is fast editing software that is designed to process AVI files into different formats and can handle converting many video files in batch processing so one can actually convert lots of videos at one time.6. WAX. Wax is a high performance and flexible video compositing and special effects software. It is mainly designed to be very general purpose and flexible in video compositing and effects, so that you can compose your dream video sequence with ease every time.7. CamStudio. Is a free software that allows you to record what is being done on your computer screen and record audio at the same time.8. Blender. This software is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems (i.e it runs on almost all the operating systems, like in WINDOWS, LINUX, MAC OS X).It is used to model, shade, animate, render, composite and interactive 3d.9. Zwei-SteinZwei-Stein 3.01 is a freeware non-linear, non-destructive video compositing and editing system which offers many advanced features unavailable elsewhere.With Zwei-Stein you can edit up to 256 video, audio and still image clips, each with up to 64 effects chained serially. Cropping, panning and custom effects are easy with automatic key frames.10. ZS4 Video EditorZS4 Video Editor is video editing and compositing software which aims to provide media experts with a facility to combine a variety of media types (currently photos, videos and audio files) into one (or more) output file(s).11. LivesLiVES began in 2002 as the Linux Video Editing System. Since it now runs on more operating systems, LiVES is a Video Editing System. It is designed to be simple to use, yet powerful. It is small in size, yet it has many advanced features.12. HyperEngine-AVMultimedia authoring software for capturing, editing, organizing, processing, and exporting video, audio, and text to create DVD quality movies and slide shows 13. Avidemux. Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codec. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities. It runs on Windows Operating System.14. AviTricks. is a non-linear, non-destructive AVI video editor with real-time preview. It makes cutting and joining footage easy and includes a wide range of built-in adjustable effects that can be used separately or in combination.15. VideoThang. enables you to mix video clips with images and background music (.mp3), and save the result as MPEG file for sharing via email, web upload or file on your local drive.16. DVD Knife. is a simple tool for extracting DVD clips from your DVD’s. This is the simplest and fastest tool in its category which has ability to extract long VOB clips in few seconds.17. VideoSpin. is free video editing software that allows you to create your own movie clips in minutes using your own videos and pictures.18. AVI Trimmer. is a free video editor for fast and lossless AVI editing. This freeware AVI editor is small, smart, easy to use and involves no encoding/decoding processes.19. AVIedit. allows you to join and split AVI files, extract frames and perform video warping, color restore, noise reduction and so on. 20. Vivia. This is a video editing program for Linux and Windows that offers very user-friendly editing of DV video material.21. Jahshaka. This is one of the worlds first open source, hardware accelerate editing and effects system, lets you to edit with flexibility and create effects in real time. You can also paint and design on moving video.22. Adobe Premier Pro. If you use Adobe Photoshop you can import your layers. This can bring life to all your Photoshop designs. In fact many times you may just be using your graphics and not even recorded video. This makes editing your videos unlimited for graphics designers. Cutting and chopping your footage is easy and fast. Adding special effects is easy and unlimited.23. Sony Vegas Pro. Packed with special effects, easy to cut video and easy to make a DVD. Sony Vegas Pro is like 3 software’s in one. A good video editing software, excellent DVD authoring and great audio options for editing your audio almost as good as an actual high end audio software such as Equalizer, Reverb, Noise Filter and many.24. KinoKino is a non-linear DV editor for GNU/Linux. It features excellent integration with IEEE-1394 for capture, VTR control, and recording back to the camera. It captures video to disk in Raw DV and AVI format, in both type-1 DV and type-2 DV (separate audio stream) encodings.25. Video Flick. This is one of the best video editing software that you can use to export and import video files directly in to your computer. With the help of Video Flick, you can create your own movies just like Hollywood film directors and edit video in the comfort of your home. You can crop the video to adjust the size so that it can be played on a mobile phone. Add watermark anywhere to protect your video with copyright. You can also put all your photos together that are stored in the computer and make a slideshow with the help of the software.REFERENCESwww.digitaldreamsng.com
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Jonathan Onyekwere is an ICT consultant with specialty in Web designing and development. He is kin on encouraging school leaver to move into the ICT sector because it has a large space to accommodate everybody unlike other sectors of the economy.
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