driving?
driving?
The one thing that doesn’t change about getting behind the camera is what you do when you step away from it. How’s that? Believe it or not, you’ve got just as much a chance of making a great video as anyone else in the world. I’m talking about editing. As soon as you know how to edit, all those little nooks and crannies floating around in your head will bring your raw footage to life. But there’s a catch.
You can have the most expensive camera in the world, but if you don’t know how to edit—you’re setting yourself up to crash. Much like stepping into a Ferrari without knowing how to drive stick shift.
And as soon as you’re up to speed with it (pun time!), you’re cruising through video editing.
In this chapter, we’ll explore the basics of video editing. From simple cuts—to keyframing motion effects, we’ll learn simple techniques that can help us understand our limitations and possibilities with video editing software. Our creativity is only the reflection of our end goal. So, let’s ride this coaster and check out our picture at the end.
Sorry. My corny references are finally catching up...
What are you
Would you believe if I told you that you could spend hundreds of thousands of dollars splicing footage and tweaking it to look a certain way? No joke.
Put down the orange juice and fold up your tray tables! Here’s a list of least-to-most expensive commercial video editing software on the market: tod
onto that wallet!
HOLD
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(LEAST EXPENSIVE)
(MOST EXPENSIVE)
AVS Video Editor
FREE-Windows
FREE-Windows
Montage Extreme
FREE-Mac
Avidemux
Blender
FREE-Mac
Movie Maker
FREE-Windows
Video Cutter
FREE-Mac
ZS4 Video Editor
ZS4
FREE-Mac
Hyperengine
FREE-Mac
FREE 30 day trial-Mac
Clesh Video Editor
PanoptoVideo Editor
$5-Android
iMovie
$17-Mac
Movie Plus Editor
$20-Windows
Sony Vegas Movie
$45-Mac
Pinnacle
$70-Windows
-AV
Magix
$70-Windows
Magix Movie Edit
VideoPad Editor
$70-Mac
Power Director
$70-Windows
Muvee Reveal
$80-Windows
Sony Vegas Pro
$90-Mac
Roxio Toast Editor
$80-Mac
FORscene Basic
$99/mo.-Windows
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MPEG Wizard
$100-Windows
Camtasia
$100-Win./Mac
Roxio Editor
$100-Windows
Media Composer
$295student-Mac
FCP X
$300-Mac
AVID Newscutter
$400-Windows
Adobe Premiere Pro
$799-Win./Mac
Adobe After Effects
$1,000-Win./Mac
Hit Film 2
$400-Windows
$1,345-Windows
Edius Elite
Autodesk Smoke
$3,495-Win./Mac
AVID DS Editor
$10,000-Windows
Autodesk Flame
$50-125K
-Mac
Factoid for thought
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Pretty Penny 'PI': BANKRUPTCY
Did you know Rhythm and Hues went bankrupt for $16 million after edting Life of Pi (2012)? Even though the visual effects company brought life-like 3D precedence to the film industry, executive producers felt the idea was a huge gamble.
Pi's tiger used 3D software to digitally comb all the hairs on its wire-frame body.