Digital Photography: Video Editing Magic
Do you have a lot of video tapes at home taken during holidays, birthday parties, summer getaways, and other special occasions? Perhaps some of them are just sitting on the shelves and accumulating dust. Travelers usually carry camcorders because they want to have memories of the fun and souvenirs from a foreign place they’ve visited. Piles of video tapes are often stuck away, no longer viewed but the magic of video editing changes that.
Digital camcorders are cheaper these days so you can easily capture videos of high quality if you put a little time and effort into the planning and execution of your video. If you have a video-capture card, good editing software, and computer at home, you can start editing the videos you’ve collected over the years. Once you have the final output, you can then watch it with your friends.
Video Edit Magic requires you to have Windows 2000, XP or Vista in order to use such program. It supports media formats like WMA, AVI, ASF, SND, WMV, AIFF, MPEG, AU, and QuickTime.
What can you do using Magic, Vegas or Premiere?
You can capture videos (upload FROM the camera/tape TO your computer) by using FireWire or USB input device. You can also give good grade effects to the videos you’ve collected. The video and audio components can be edited separately even if it is a single file only. Like other editing programs, you can also decorate the videos with over 150 transitions. It is also possible to overlay tracks with the use of Magic. Video files can be added with voiceover and background score. The timeline is one the most important tools in the editing software. In Magic, as in Vegas and Premiere, you can combine different file formats on the timeline.
If you think that these are all the things that Magic or Vegas can do, you’re wrong. Other features that Magic and Premiere offer are: – including text titles, trimming audios and videos, creating DVD or VCD file formats, changing contrast and color, rotate and zoom in/out video angles, and export of videos to digi-cams or your hard-drive.
Your videos will look like the videos created by the pros in no time. With Magic and Vegas, professional editing is no longer expensive. The interface is drag and drop which makes it easier to capture the footage into the timeline. This is also the time to add background music, title effects, scene transitions, and other effects to finish your masterpiece. On the timeline, you can also add others file formats like WMV, AVI, JPEG, MPEG, and ASF. You can create a unique video or movie output in a matter of minutes.
The MPEG format is required if you want to create DVDs, SVCDs, and VCD. You can create a movie in PAL or NTSC standards.
The volume of the tracks in the video can also be displayed so that you can instantly change the audio clip’s volume to create dopler effects, fade outs, fade ins, and other volume effects.
With Magic, you can split, join, trim, crop, merge, and modify color of the video files. The transitions make it even more interesting for users to create ordinary videos which look like great art works.
It doesn’t really matter whether you’re a pro or an amateur. You see, with Magic and Vegas, the basics are easily learned and in no time, you can start working on your video productions. It costs something, as they all do, but you can learn a lot from the trial version by downloading it, along with free trial versions of Vegas and Premiere.
Is Magic for you? Try it now and see if it works great. And be sure to try free versions of Sony Vegas and Adobe Premiere, so that you can compare the ease of learning and the overall functionality. Then be sure to share what you learned and the troubles you encountered, with us, here!
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