Computers Video Photography Shack
Computers Video To Make Your Movies
By Nikos L Maxwell
A computers video hobby requires start-up capital but
is easy to learn. You will need a digital camcorder,
a firewire cable, a computer with enough storage space
and memory, as well as editing software. If you want
to review your options and output your video to DVD,
then you may need a DVD burner drive and software for
your computer too.
Plausibly, you could get set up for as little as $1,200
($500 for a Dell laptop, $500 for a Canon camcorder,
$200 for the software). To learn, you can take a computer
training course, attend film school, read the manual
or watch online tutorials.
Setting Up Your Computer To Edit Videos
You may have heard that there are gaming computers,
music computers and video computers. However, just about
any desktop computer can be set up to edit videos as
long as you have a firewire port (to connect the camera
to your computer), CPU power, hard drive space and bandwidth
to handle the enormous amount of data being
processed.
Whenever you render your movie and await the changes
you have made to take place, you will experience a huge
lag if your computer isn’t up to the task. This process
can take minutes or hours, depending on your equipment.
A fast computer will also be able to read data from
the camera, transferring it to the computer
efficiently.
Shopping For Video Components For Your Setup
When shopping for computer video components, you will
want no less than 20 GB of hard drive space, 512 MB
of memory and a Pentium 3 processor. If you plan to
do a lot of remote shooting and working, then laptop
computers now come with everything you will need.
Once you have looked at laptop computers and desktop
computers, you will need a digital camera to shoot on.
The Canon XH-A1 is considered a "wonderful camera
for indie filmmaking" in the $2,500-$3,500 range.
The esteemed Canon XL-2 can cost up to $5,000. For under
$500, you may want to try the Canon Elura or
Canon ZR300.
Shooting Video For A Professional Look
Canon cameras offer rich color saturation and high-quality
pictures for a professional look. Sony cameras are used
by college campuses and professional filmmakers alike.
The Sony Handycam ranges between $300 and $500 for basic
digital resolution and $800 to $1200 for
high-definition.
Sony is noted for its steady images and detail. You
may also want to check out the Panasonic line, such
as the PV-GS150, PV-GS31 or VDR-M50, which are all under
$500. For more serious filmmakers, Panasonic offers
the AG-DVX100A and DVX100. Panasonic cameras are noted
for excellent zoom, focus and manual gain control.
Video Training Courses May Be Too Expensive
To gain valuable computers video training, many people
choose to forego the costly college education and instead
take a more do-it-yourself approach. There are a number
of websites offering video production tutorials and
software computer training online.
The most popular editing programs today are Final Cut
Pro and Adobe Premiere. Pinnacle Studio, Quicktime,
Flash, Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After-Effects,
Avid and Media 100 are other noteworthy programs you
may be exposed to.
For some tutorials, check out www.digitalvideoediting.com,
www.mediacollege.com
and www.animationsforvideo.com.
While a lot can be found by way of free computer training,
many people still prefer the one-on-one attention of
a classroom setting. This is also good if you don’t
have all your own equipment yet.
About the Author:
Nikos L Maxwell is an author of articles on digital video, digital photography and editing software including
Digital Editing,
Large Images,
Edit Pictures,
Fuji Film Digital Cameras,
DVD Editing,
Video Editing Computers,
Digital Image Processing,
Blu Ray Disc.
Keep a lookout for more articles coming soon.
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