Video Editing

  familiar situation is one where a great amount of video material - films captured from the TV, camcorder movies, photographs, music etc. - all stack up and occupy masses of space on your hard disk or are stored on a multitude of compact discs. Another situation occurs when a movie contains some scenes you would rather prefer to be cut out, or, where you would like to rearrange the sequence of certain scenes. This is the perfect time to start thinking about video editing, because, in the above cases, file conversion will not help you very much.

There are many video editing programs available in the market ranging from the “professional”, and expensive, to the “start-up” and relatively inexpensive. Both kinds will allow cutting fragments out of movies and joining them in the required order. This process is also known as NLE.

Professional video editor programs are rather difficult to operate and handle. They are also, generally, large in size. But their shortcomings are often well compensated by the greater number of features they offer such as editing precisely to a single frame, effects collection, sound effects, camcorder operations, high-quality codecs, etc...

To make transitions between the scenes of a movie more dynamic, special effects are available. These include, for example, fading, sliding and, pixelizing, which is the popular method of zooming-in to the first scene's pixels followed by zooming out to the next scene. Other artistic effects like "slowing down", "stroboscope", "black-and-white movie", "old film" etc. can be inserted into a movie to enhance and focus the viewers' attention.

“Start-up” video editing programmes, on the other hand, are easier to learn and use and, usually, carry the essential tools necessary for creating amateur movies i.e. transition effects, a preview window and support for camera operations. MedianSoft's Joiner-Converter falls into this latter category of video editing programmes. Next...