Here is a series of tutorials on Adobe Premiere by TheNewBoston. They are in YouTube HD quality (640*480)
Adobe Premiere Tutorial 1
Go To Adobe Premiere Tutorial 2
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Have you heard of this new service called Animoto? It takes your images or photos, mixes them with some cool soundtracks and creates a slide show in motion. You might be thinking, “Sounds simple. Not too exciting…” Well guess again. This service rocks! Ever had a family pictures collection you wanted to send to your relatives? How about adding some Christmas carols to the mix? Excellent for replacing those old e-cards. How about a ballad for that series of pictures of you and your significant other you have been meaning to send? The possibilities are endless!
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Total work time: 10 minutes!
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Here is a mini tutorial by TalentedPixie.com about how to apply effects in Adobe Premiere CS3. It should also allow you to get a sense about how Adobe Premiere (and many other video editors) works. Take into account that this is a piece of software targeted to professionals, so you probably will not be seeing a very intuitive and clean User Interface (UI), but a more packed and efficiency driven one. That should not scare you though, once you get around the ropes with it, you will be doing things much faster and much easier. Then you will appreciate why the interface is like that.
I just heard of the AVS Video Editor (and the AVS Suite in general) and decided to give it a try. The concept seems great, register one of their products and get all of them immediately. At almost $60, it seems like a reasonable price. I played with it for a while and here is the result (made with the default sample clips and audio):
This was uploaded directly after rendering without any extra processing
You can download your free copy here.
The features are not the greatest, but they seem to work fine. There are many prepackaged effects and transitions that add a lot of eye candy to your videos. There were some features missing, specially for more professional video editing jobs, like the lack of a precise time and frames control. For example, if you want an effect to last for 5 seconds, you have to calculate it yourself looking at the timeline and just approximate it. The user interface is not all that intuitive, but without looking at the help I was able to get most of it done and I believe I tried almost all of the features for the editing part. When it comes down to video editing, I would like a little more flexibility, but if you do not mind just going with the presets for the most part and just want to get a decent looking video in a short amount of time, this might be the software for you.
There are other features you might be interested in, for example, it has a wide variety of exporting formats, from straight to DVD quality to straight to YouTube and everything in between. I did not try for a full HD video, but it might be possible. The video above is in fact rendered in 720p. Of course the quality is not that great because it is made with low quality clips, but it is possible to do HD with this software.
I was pleased with the rendering speed and the support for h.264. Overall it looks like a good possibility for the price. If you are looking to upgrade from Movie Maker to a nonlinear video editing software, this is for you. If you want to make your home videos spicier without spending a fortune or a lot of time, this is for you.
OVERALL SCORE: 3.5 out of 5
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
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)
A new technology developed at Stanford University called ZunaVision is able to insert an image onto any flat surface in your videos, effectively turning them into a possible revenue system. The technology analyzes the video and compensates for camera and object motions.
This effect is nothing new for the professionals. However this technology has never been available to the open public before. It allows the average youtube video uploader to insert an advertisement image or video directly into their video. This could revolutionize the ads based revenue business model completely.
Loiloscope is a freestyle non-linear video editing software. This is, unlike other video editing software packages, Loiloscope uses a virtually unlimited desktop where you can arrange and organize your clips while editing them. It comes in two versions, one of them free. The only limitations for the free version are the watermark and the video output size constraint.
Loiloscope uses a simple yet very flexible interface that allows both on-the-fly and precise to the frame editing. Probably the best feature of Loiloscope is that you are not limited by the environment. Other software uses a cramped window where they try to fit everything the multi functional editor needs. The screen real state goes away fast with any of this packages. Loiloscope on the other side uses the screen flow to its best. You might not be able to see everything in this workspace at once if you do not have a gigantic display, but with the smart focus feature, you do not need to. You can focus and zoom into any part of the workspace with the roll of the mouse wheel or a single click.
Here you can see their introduction video. It is a bit long, and not the best editing ever (ironically enough), but hopefully you will see all the possibilities of this piece of software:
Loiloscope is produced by Loilo Inc. a Japanese startup funded by Koji Sugiyama and Ryutaro Sugiyama in 2007. Based on the Ecou engine for lightning fast video rendering and the ScopeUI for that ’so simple you do not need a manual’ interface.
NewBlueFX surprised me with an amazing pack of effects. They are the Paint effects and Paint Blends Video plugin collections. They are available for most of the video editing software packages:
Adobe After Effects 7.0 and higher (Video Essentials only).This collection brings some good additions to the already outstanding plugin selection NewBlueFX has. One of the most noteworthy plugins is the Cartoonr Plus, which adds important functionality and flexibility improvements over the free version made available last spring. Some others include:
I spent the whole day yesterday figuring out Cinelerra. It is possibly one of the best video editing tools I have used so far. I will say it upfront: It is not user intuitive, period. I spent a few good hours watching over and over the tutorials at Cinelerra’s Documentation Page. I learned the most out of the video tutorials by The Source Show. As with most software, there were a few bugs and crashes, but if you follow the installation instructions for your distribution and steer clear of the know issues, you should be fine. I have tried other solutions, like Kino and KDEnlive, but none of them came close to the functionality and flexibility of Cinelerra.
So let’s summarize the pros and cons real fast.
PROS:
CONS:
OVERALL RATING: 4 out of 5
I truly believe that Cinelerra can be great and lacks only a few features of other professional video editing software packages. If you are serious about getting your video just right, or you do it professionally, but do not have the money to buy one of the high end products, Cinelerra is your best bet. You need to take some time to learn the different controls and just how the whole program works, but once you get that under your belt, you will be on your way to make professionally produced videos.
