The Best DVD Editing Software

Footage Firm has done it again. After going overboard giving away royalty-free HD looping background stock footage clips, they have now released 10 brand new HD stock footage collections. Featuring clips from US and Europe cities and countryside, to exotic locations with paradise like natural scenery, these new HD clips are the missing tool in your kit to produce better and brighter media.

Getting the stock footage that you need for your project might be cumbersome or just too expensive to even consider, but these guys have already done the work for you, and as a promotion they are giving it away for a limited time only. Be it a commercial, short film, product presentation or music video, a piece of stock footage can give it that much more impact that you need.

These 10 collections come loaded with pieces of footage in both HD ad SD format and work out of the box with any computer and any software you use for your projects. They are properly categorized for your unique needs. You can even check out the sample clips from every collection right here.

As with the previous campaign, Footage Firm is giving these DVD’s to you free of charge, they only ask of you to cover the S&H expenses by yourself. That means that for less than $9 a disc you can get this $2500 collection. Hurry up though, they are only giving out a limited number of copies and if you don’t act fast enough you’ll be stuck with the regular price. So head over there now!

Video Trace is a piece of software that allows you to create 3D models from a video file by tracing the object at any frame. The traced model is then mapped with the video itself giving the object a realistic look. The obtained model can then be used to modify the video in ways otherwise impossible to do.

The project is still in the prototype phase and in closed beta. The release schedule is still in the works, but with some good fortune it will not be long til you can get your hands on this.

The Siggraph paper describing the research side of this story can be found here: Video Trace (PDF)
You can see the official website here: Australia Centre for Visual Technologies

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With the release of the Nikon D90 and the Canon EOS 5D Mark II, professional high definition video seems to be easier to approach than ever before. If you have not seen the promotional videos already look for them below. They are stunning visual masterpieces. However, high definition video not only eats hard drive storage like crazy, but it also requires a powerful system and processor to edit and prepare for final rendering and mastering. It is at this time that Cyberlink Power Director 7 comes into the picture. Recently it was announced that Power Director 7 supports the new Intel i7 quad core processor. With the cost of hardware, specially memory, coming down, it is now affordable to put together a quality video editing system, and with Intel’s new creating at the core, now more than ever it is time to start doing some high definition video.

Canon Promotional Video
Luminous Landscape Canon EOS 5D MarkII Pre-review
Luminous Landscape Nikon D90 Review

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New developments in the technology behind Adobe’s products allow some incredible video manipulation from attaching graffiti and text balloons to scrolling and enhancing the video based on the subject’s motion.

“This demo illustrates our research to bring interactivity to video editing: Our system analyzes videos using computer vision techniques, enabling interactive annotation, browsing, and even drag-and-drop composition of new still images using video footage.

This is a joint research project of Adobe and the University of Washington”. (From Vimeo)

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