The process of editing your movie can take awhile, depending on your software, and your commitment.
There are quite a few decent editing software you can buy, Pinnacle is one the the top sellers. The Pinnacle Studio Deluxe sells for around 150 dollars. It produces amazing effects, ones that are of professional quality.
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| This is the Pinnacle Holly Wood Studio. It creates your videos to the finest quality. Only one draw back, every five minutes of produced footage is 1 gigabyte. | (Pinnacle Studio Deluxe, as described above.) |
But of course, you need to check out some computers before you begin. Lets take a USB port for instance.
This is a USB port. They're usually not fast, depending on your computer.
For example, if you have Windows XP, your editing software will be more compatible,
but there are other alternatives to the USB ports. |
This is a Firewire port. From here, you can hook your camera up directly
to this. You can do that with a USB, but will be slower. And using the
Firewire is better than using a bipmat converter. |
Most cameras come with a DV port which they have a firewire cord hook directly into the camera and to the computer.
The computer you buy should have a large amount of memory, unless if you make all of your files an mpeg file. Which if you do a 20 minute movie only takes up about 80-200 mbs of space.
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| Mac computers are the leading computers for video editing. They usually come standard with a firewire card. |
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| This is the Apple Final Cut editing software. It's capable of doing scene transitions, fades, color changes and such. |
Most of the techniques in editing are quite difficult to achieve in editing. Like blue screen effects.
Here we have E.T. flying in a bicycle in front of the moon, scenes like these can be done through the blue screen process. |
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| Most techniques on blue screens have been replaced by other colors, green is becoming more popular. When doing these, you must have a large enough screen to fit what you want in it. Next, place what you want to film in front on the screen. Then comes a difficult part, you have to act out, if you're using people, what their going to do, whether if it's driving a car, or floating in space. Next, you have to make the desired back ground, like space, or moving cars. This part must be filmed by camera. Last, you download the background and the actors into the editing software, place the people in the blue screen as one layer, and the back in as a bottom layer. Of course, I briefly went over the topic, it depends on your software |
This last technique is used in professional movies.
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This contraption here is used for sound purposes. When you begin to film a scene, a person will clap this clapper, producing a noise and a motion. And all audio will be recorded separately. Once the scene is finished, the sound tracks and the movie tracks will be join, and when in the editing studio, they will match the motion of the clapper, to the sound of the noise so that the audio track and visual picture will be in sync. |
The process of editing ones first movie may take a long time. The first movie I ever made took nearly two months to finish. And if worse comes to worse, you can resort to the most primitive method, your camera, you cables, and your VCR.