!!! Video Editing and Creation Help !!!

(I will be adding info to this page on an ongoing basic. The "Last Modified Date" in the bottom left corner
of the page will always auto update itself whenever content has changed. So keep checking back.)

Be sure to also check out the consumer video editing page

For professional level video editing be sure to check out the Sony Vegas Pro page

Other Supplementary Programs

  • Bluff Titler
    Create dazzling 3D titles for your videos and photos with BluffTitler DX9 Want to impress your friends and clients with cool 3D titles? But don't want to spend a fortune on professional 3D animation and video titling software? BluffTitler is the easiest way to add 3D text animations to your photos and videos. Be sure to check out the other apps on the OuterSpace site!
  • Reallusion iClone-4 (3D Video FX
    (More description coming soon)
  • Graphics Software by Xara: Check out "Xtreme Pro" and "3D"
  • SonicFire Smartsound Music Tracks

    Industry leading soundtrack software that customizes the length, arrangements and instrument mix to meet all of your creative needs.

    SmartSound Channel on YouTube

  • proDAD Software for Creative Video Editing - Adorage, Heroglyph, Mercalli, VitaScene
  • Digital Juice: JumpBacks, SoundTrx, Sound FX, and more!
    Looking for the cool DVD menu scifi sound effects, then check out Sound FX Library IV, Noise FX!
  • 3D-Album PicturePro Platinum: Show, present, exhibit, animate, publish, walkthrough, and even design photo quiz games. This is not just another picture slide show! Only 3D-Album brings you an exquisite photo show with true shadowing, lighting, reflection, and motion blurs effects, and provides interactive control of the album in a true 3D world. People will think you had a Hollywood title designer at your elbow. If you thought making your family photos into slide shows was fun, wait until you see a 3D-Album presentation! With over 100 fabulous 3D styles in the still growing collection, your digital albums will never be boring. Choose from amazing themes for wedding, reunions, graduations, parties, new babies, and many other special occasions

Other Misc Programs

Media Libraries: Audio, Fonts, Graphics, and Video

Great Articles

Helpful Links

Video Editing Tips

  • When you enter the HD realm, you need to think in terms of terabytes of storage and super-fast data transfer rates.
  • On the storage side of the equation, to ensure smooth HD editing, you need a striped disk array (RAID 0). RAID 0 writes files across two hard drives to achieve a faster data transfer rate. A SCSI (small computer system interface) connection used to be the de facto high-speed connection standard for RAID systems, but internal SATA is almost on par with SCSI, is more readily available and is less expensive.
  • An often-overlooked option is a fast hard drive. Most workstations should contain multiple hard drives spinning at 7200 rpm (or even better 10,000rpm). Be sure to also look for a high-speed interface, such as a eSATA (Serial ATA) connection.
  • Multiple drives allow for a separation of programs on one drive, raw video files on another and a library of stock footage, sound effects and other building blocks on the third. Keep the Vegas' temp folder remains on the C:\ drive. A different partition on the same drive as the video editing doesn't count as a separate drive. More on this subject can be found here.
  • The bigger the hard drive, the better: Bigger hard drives pack data closer together, which can improve performance.
  • The hard disk must be capable of playing reading and writing at a sustained rate of 4 MB per second. The hard drive must also be formatted with the NTFS file structure (vs the FAT32 structure) in order to capture video files larger than 4GBs.
  • You can easily defragment and take proper care of the external video-only hard drive. Yes, a fragmented hard drive does affect videos. The more fragmented a hard drive is, the less efficiently the system will be able to import, edit or compress that video. Files that have come from a heavily-fragmented hard drive will sometimes not play back properly.
  • Shader 3.0 graphics support
  • Also choose a CUDA-enabled NVIDIA video card, as many editors can use your GPU to improve AVC rendering performance. For more information please see CUDA-enabled GPUs.
  • If using an external drive, try to use one with Firewire 800 IEEE1394b (twice as fast as USB 2.0) or eSATA port. Firewire IEEE 1394a is only 400. There are also different eSATA speeds. I like the Fantom GreenDrive GD2000Q Quad Interface by Micronet.
    • Hard drive size: 2 TB
    • Interface type: IEEE 1394b (FireWire 800) / IEEE1394 (FireWire) / Hi-Speed USB / eSATA-300
    • Buffer size: 32 MB)
    • Seek Time 8.5 ms (average)
    • 7200rpm Spindle Speed
  • Throughput Rates Source:
    USB 3.0 = (5Gbps)
    Fibre Channel = 425 MB/sec (4.25 Gb/sec)
    SCSI 320 = 320 MB/sec
    eSATA = 150 MB/sec (1.5 Gb/sec) or 300 MB/sec (3.0 Gb/sec)
    Internal SATA = 150 MB/sec (1.5 Gb/sec) or 300 MB/sec (3.0 Gb/sec)
    IEEE1394b (AKA Firewire 800) = 80 MB/sec (800 Mb/sec)
    IEEE1394a (AKA Firewire 400) = 40 MB/sec (400 Mb/sec)
    USB 3.0 = (5Gbps)
    USB 2.0 = 48 MB/sec (480 Mb/sec)
    USB 1.1 = 1.2 MB/sec (12 Mb/sec)

    Throughput Rates Graph

    With USB 3.0 offering speeds of up to 5Gbps it's faster than eSATA and FireWire. USB 3.0 is also backwards compatible with USB 2.0, so you can continue to use all your existing devices. Unlike eSATA, USB 3.0 provides power so devices can be bus powered. USB 3.0 supports video and audio playback much better tahn USB 2.0.

    Of course, most hard drives have a physical data transfer maximum of near 70 MB/sec, so there is likely no difference in real-world transfer rate for an external hard drive between eSATA and Firewire 800. Also be aware that USB has a large amount of overhead, and though the interface speed indicates you should get 48 MB/sec out of it, real-world transfer rates are more like 30 MB/sec.

    All high speed serial protocols we're speaking of, including SATA/eSATA, IEEE1394, USB, and Fibre Channel all use 8b/10b encoding, which transports 8 bits of user data by transmitting 10 bits of signalling data on the wire. Thus, 10 clock cycles of the wire transport must be used to transport only 8 bits of user data. This is why all the figures are divided by 10, not 8.

    This means that the numbers in parenthesis represent the raw signalling rate of the transport medium, while the numbers outside parentheses represent the theoretical amount of user data that can be transported.

    SCSI is a parallel bus, not high-speed serial, and does not use 8b/10b encoding.

    Also see Wikipedia's Storage Bandwidths for additional details.

  • Shared Memory – Graphics cards that do not have their own dedicated memory and instead use the system’s main RAM are not capable of HD editing.
  • AVCHD is the latest High Definition format for consumer camcorders. It is based on the H.264 codec and offers high compression with minimal quality loss. The result is small, great-looking HD video files, but at the cost of a more complex compression scheme requiring more processor power and more system memory.
  • Video Edting F.A.Qs from HV20.com
  • Best easy to read font faces are: Tahoma Bold, Eras Bold, Futura HV BT, Rockwell, SF Fedora, and Comic Sans MS
  • Still pictures should always batch reduced to no more than 2000px in width or height. Photoshop batch script feature that works perfect for this. There are other free utilities to this such as Batch Picture Resize OR PhotoResize Options

Video Editing Hardware

Hand Held Stablizer Camera Tripods

Microphones

Other Hardware Stuff

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