Videos and Projects

The digital video broadcasting project is being led by industry professionals, including over 270 broadcasters, manufacturers and other people in the broadcasting arena. They are helping to make sure that digital media is available all over the globe. Already this project is available on every continent, with over 180 million receivers already in use. If a person is still using an analog television or video recorder, then they will be left in the dust in the world of electronics.

The digital video broadcasting project will help ensure that the migration from analogue to digital TV goes well, as it offers the opportunity to deliver interactive applications to viewers worldwide. However, if people do not listen to all of the service announcements that are currently happening on the television, then in early 2009 those television sets will become unusable. Luckily, most televisions and video recorder products that are sold today are digital and an individual will not have to worry about getting a converter box.

What is so good about the DVB project and its system? Well, for starters, it is an open system instead of a closed system. In other worlds, an open system allows for the integrations between computers and televisions, instead of a closed system that is only for television viewing.

Through digital broadcasting, the possibility of seeing live television in cars, trains, buses and even on hand held devices is possible. This is a wonderful option coming for those who cannot live without their television sets.

The good thing about the digital video broadcasting project is that people all around the globe are now informed of the changes that are going to take place. No longer is a person going to have to deal with the standard definition that litters both the video recorder industry and the television industry. Thanks to this project, high definition and digital are going to take over the world and no one can stop it from happening.

The most important aspect of video editing is the telling of the story. Everything that moves the story forward, makes it more interesting or enhances it dramatically are tools that every video editor should employ. If you compare the video editing process to a contractor building a house you may begin to see the relationship between the raw video footage and what the video editor brings to that footage. The raw footage can be compared to the lumber, concrete, roofing material etc.

The video editor, like the contractor, takes the various piles of materials and transforms them into a house by cutting, nailing pouring etc. That is precisely the service that the video editor performs with the raw footage from the video shoot. Video editing transforms the basic footage into a story with a beginning, middle and an end. The quality of the final product is based on the quality of the raw material, the video footage and the skill of the video editor.

The video editor has many tools in his video editing toolbox. The choices that are open to the editor depend, to a certain degree, on the video footage that he is editing. When there is a dialogue sequence, it is important that you hear clearly what the participants are saying, so naturally it would not be wise to lay music with lyrics under the sequence. Music is a tool that the editor can employ, but it is important that the editor use the right editing tool depending on the sequence that he, or she, is editing. It is almost if the medical credo should apply to video editing, i.e., first do no harm.

With that thought in mind, it is the duty of the video editor to use only the tools at his disposal that enhance and move the story forward. Editing video requires the talent to recognize the things that are important to the story, combined with the common sense to know which of the tools at the editor’s disposal to use in a given situation. Straight cuts, dissolves, or other video transitions, music, moves, blowups and color changes are just some of the video tools available to the movie editor while in the video editing process. The wise use of these tools at the correct time separate the amateur from the professional video editor.

Once you begin to look at your video footage as part of a story and treat the material as if you were a master story teller, your video editing will step up to the next level. The theory behind video editing is quite simple, first do no harm and second use only the tools that enhance and move the story forward.

What is video editing? Right out of the box the first thing that comes to mind is rearranging video or picture clips in a way that better enables you to tell a story. That was easy enough, but is that the whole story? In a word, no. That is just the beginning.

Video editing is a two part story. First you have the picture editing, and second you have the sound editing. For most home videos, the sound editing is often times more important than the picture editing. In professional videos, more time is spent on the sound editing than on the picture editing and can have a dramatic effect on the emotional impact of the final cut of the video. Attention to the details of audio editing is the oft overlooked aspect of video editing that makes all the difference between an amateur and a professional.

Let’s look at one simple example that you might find on any home video. At the end of every shot there is a transition from the out going scene to the new scene which may have occurred days apart or minutes apart. The time between scenes makes no difference. You are going from one location to another which means that the ambient, or background sounds are different. If you cut from one shot to the next, the audio is jarring, which makes you feel that the cut is wrong, when in actuality it is the audio (sound) that is making the cut not look good.

All you have to do is let the sound from the first cut trail into the second cut by one or two seconds and then the change in the audio does not fall on the cut. This will create a much smoother effect. Throw a short dissolve on the audio, say 8 frames to 1 second and the transition will be even smoother still. Such little details can greatly reduce the jarring impact of a cut and increase sensation of the viewer of being drawn in to your video project.

This also works in reverse. If some one is talking in the second shot, pull one to two seconds of their dialogue up under the first shot. This will have the effect of “pulling” you into the next scene. Play around with it and soon you will be editing like a professional!