Video editing
Since this family history tutorial is
on a website, I’m assuming you have access to a computer. Therefore, the
instructions are for non-linear editing (NLE).
There are other non-computerized
methods of video editing.
In-camera editing:
videotape each shot in sequence. If your plans are for a video interview with
no photo overlays and simple text, this will work for you. You can videotape
photos and foam boards with hand-printed text to expand your video.
Assemble editing:
using your camcorder, find a section of your taped video. Transfer that section
to another tape on a vcr. Find the next section and transfer. Continue until
your edited tape is assembled.
Additional information
Video project styles
- Biography—taped interview with photo overlays
- Photo slideshow— set
to music with text inserts
- Stand-alone as part of a website or digital scrapbook
- Interviews on CD or DVD as photo album pocket
inserts
Editing video on your computer
Most
off-the-shelf computers these days can edit video. Not
video ready? You will have to add capture and video editing cards to your
computer before adding a video editing program. You will need a Pentium 4
processor and plenty of free hard drive space. For one hour of DV-AVI (uncompressed video) plan on about 30 Gigabytes of free space.
How non-linear video editing
works
Each
frame of captured video has 2 unique references—a reel name and specific
timecode. In order for your computer to edit video, you will have to copy video sequences onto your computer's hard drive
(capture). Those captured sequences remain unchanged in a capture folder no matter what you do to the video during editing.
In order to edit the video, you have to import those video clips into a video project (using video editing software); all you actually import are the references to the video sitting on your hard drive, not the video itself. All editing decisions such as trimming, special effects, etc. are attached to those references only. Yor video project is actually an edit decision list (EDL). This is how your computer makes efficient use of hard drive space when editing video. That's why you can use the same untinkered-with video footage in multiple projects.
Timecode is the
consecutive numbering system for video frames on a reel of tape. It reads 00:00:00:00 (hours:minutes:seconds:frames). There are 30 frames per second (fps) NTSC, and there are 25 fps on PAL and SECAM.
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