On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 20:44:42 +1000 (EST), McLean Richard wrote [snip]
> I agree with previous comments re: 30 second max attention > span, storyboards etc .. still not convinced we can't > do this ourselves though! I might have to make an > effort to learn more about the editing process & give > it a shot myself. Just had a look at the video from our Forbes 2002-3 camp, which was edited by a professional (as previously discussed). It ran for 6 minutes (excluding titles), and had 50 scene changes (the longest of which was 19 seconds). That's one scene change every 7.2 seconds on average. The guy who produced it spent probably the better part of a couple of days filming, to cut it down to just those few minutes of final product. Regarding non-linear editing (NLE) PC hardware, you are generally looking for a PC with > 128 Mb RAM (you can NEVER have too much), the fastest CPU you can get ( > 2GHz, with > 3GHz preferred), a fast AGP 3D video card (> 64Mb VRAM) for effects rendering (Nvidia GeForce or ATI Radeon are popular), a Firewire (IEE 1394) port for connecting a Mini DV camera, AND at least two hard disks, with one system disk and a second one dedicated exclusively to storage of video (remember the rule - 1 minute of raw footage = 210 Mb of disk space). NLE software includes titles such as Ulead VideoStudio, Pinnacle Studio (sub $300 with a Firewire card), Vegas Video (RRP $799, or with DV authoring option $1249), Adobe Premiere (RRP circa $1300) or the high-en Avid range (which is worth several thousand, but there was (and maybe still is) a lite version downloadable for free if you have Win XP). At the end of the day, you can give a person an NLE package and a Mini DV camera qand they can piece together a video, but it comes down to "the knack" or a "natural flair" which you just can't learn, just like some of us can write software (more than hacking around the edges with Visual Basic) and the rest never will regardless of how many computing courses they do. Cheers Jason Armistead _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
