Commonly used video software
Friends who don’t understand video editing usually feel intimidated by the word “video”. In fact, by making full use of digital cameras, camcorders, video capture cards or digitized video file materials, almost any computer can create perfect video works. So, what are the commonly used video editing software on the market? Do you understand their respective characteristics? How should we choose? Let’s talk about it briefly below.
Adobe Premiere
Premiere, a video and audio editing software based on non-linear editing equipment launched by Adobe, has achieved great success in the field of film and television production. It is now widely used in television stations, advertising production, film editing and other fields, and has become the most widely used video editing software on PC and MAC platforms.
The latest version of Premiere
6.0 perfectly solves the problems of DV digital images and online editing, and provides new support for Windows platform and other cross-platform DV and all web images. . At the same time, it can be tightly integrated with other Adobe software to form a complete video design solution. The new Edit
Original command allows you to edit the inserted graphics or images again. In addition, in Premiere
6.0, the concept of key frames is added for the first time. Users can add, move, delete and edit key frames in the track, making it easy to control advanced two-dimensional animations.
Use Premiere 6.0 in conjunction with Adobe's Affter Effects 5 to maximize the functionality of both. After Effects
5.0 is a natural extension of Premiere, mainly used to push still images to a new realm of comprehensive editing of video and sound. It integrates creation, editing, simulation, synthesis of animation, and video, and integrates image, sound, and video file formats. It can be said that if you master certain skills, anything you imagine can be realized.
Ulead Media Studio Pro
Premiere is a software commonly used by professionals, but for general web pages or applications in teaching and entertainment, Premiere is less friendly. ULEAD Media
Studio Pro (the latest version is version 6.5) is the best choice in this regard. The main editing applications of Media Studio Pro include Video
Editor (video editing software similar to Premiere), Audio Editor (sound effects editing), CG Infinity, Video
Paint, covering Including video editing, film special effects, and 2D animation production, it is a comprehensive and comprehensive video editing package software. It is not much different from Premiere in terms of functions and concepts of Video Editor and Audio
Editor. The main difference lies in CG Infinity and Video Paint, two programs in animation production and special effects drawing.
CG
Infinity is a set of vector-based 2D animation production software. Its ability to draw objects and edit can be said to be as small as a sparrow, but it has all the internal organs. It is as powerful as CorelDraw. smell. But it is much more powerful than ordinary drawing software. For example, move path tool, object style panel, color characteristics, shadow characteristics, etc.
The usage process of Video Paint is very similar to that of general 2D software. Its position in the Media Studio family is like the relationship between After Effects and Premiere.
Video Paint’s special effects filters and treasure chest are very powerful.
Ulead Video Studio (VideoStudio)
Although Media Studio
Pro has high affinity and is easy to learn, it is not suitable for ordinary office workers, students, etc. In the field of home entertainment, it is still too professional, has many functions, and is not very easy to use. ULEAD's other set of editing software, VideoStudio, is a simple video editing software designed for home entertainment and personal documentary production.
The operating interface of VideoStudio is completely different from that of Media Studio
Pro. In terms of technology and functionality, VideoStudio has some special functions, such as dynamic Electronic greeting cards, sending video emails and other functions. VideoStudio uses the most popular "online operation guide" step-by-step guidance method to process various video and image materials. It is divided into start → capture → storyboard → effect → overlay → title → audio → Complete the 8 major steps, and display the operation method and related coordination precautions in a help file called "VideoStudio Guide" to quickly learn the operation method of each process.
VideoStudio provides 114 transition effects in 12 categories, which can be applied by dragging. Each effect can be further controlled, not just a general "fool function". There is also a text function that allows us to add subtitles, narration or dynamic titles to the video. The output methods of Huishenghuying are also diverse. It can output traditional multimedia movie files, such as AVI, FLC animation, and MPEG movie files. It can also embed the completed video into greeting cards and generate an executable file.exe. With built-in Internet sending, you can email your video or automatically publish it as a web page. If you have the relevant video capture card, you can also transcribe MPEG movie files to home video tape (VHS).
Using VideoStudio, you can create novel and interesting videos to achieve the purpose of family fun and preserve precious memories. Its diverse output forms can also quickly spread your happy time to people. Your friend is a set of video software that can be used by ordinary computer users.
Ulead DVD PictureShow (Ulead DVD Paipashau)
When making family photo VCDs, we usually want to make high-definition quality VCD/Videos from the photos that have been collected in the family for many years. DVD, due to the large number of photos, the tool chosen must be fast, convenient, and of high quality. Ulead
DVD PictureShow (Ulead DVD Paipashau) is the latest DVD/VCD photo album creation software launched by Ulead. It has the following features:
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Getting started with Premiere (1) Software installation
Adobe Premiere is a widely used non-linear video editing software with powerful functions and flexible use. In addition to its own transition and filter plug-ins, it also has a lot of third-party plug-ins, including special effects filters and file output, such as MPG1/2 encoding output and network video file output, etc. Previous issues of this magazine have published articles on the use of Premiere. Now we will take the production of VCD videos as an example to explain the basic operations of non-linear editing using Premiere6.0.
The first thing to introduce is the software installation.
Run the SETUP.EXE file in the PREMIERE directory of Adobe Premiere software. The following interface will appear. Click [Next] to continue.
A Software License Agreement will appear. We can only click [Accept] (Accept) to proceed with the following installation.
The next step is the Select Country window. Adobe Premiere provides multiple languages, but not Chinese, so select the first item "United States/Canada" (United States/Canada), this installs an American English interface. Continue to click [Next].
The following is the installation method to choose. You can choose Typical (typical) installation method. If you want to save installation space, you can click Custom mode to see which ones can be omitted, and click [Next].
In the Select Components window, the components that can be installed are listed.
p>Component description author's choice
Adobe Premiere 6.0 application main program√
Premiere Tutorial tutorial example
Online Help Online help can be found in Premiere The Help menu is available for reference when using it. The content is detailed. People with a certain knowledge of English do not need to buy a reference book. √
Adobe Online can connect to Adobe's homepage on the Internet and automatically query upgrade information.
Windows Media Streaming Web Export If you need to produce WMA/WMV network video, you can choose this option.
Quick Time files After installing this, you can read and write MOV and JPG files, and add several transitions for Premiere. √
Cleaner 5 Web Export Files is used to export network videos, such as RM, MP3, MPG, MOV and AVI, etc.
Real Media Export Files are also used to export network videos, mainly in RM format.
Usually I just choose to install a few of them that are useful to me and click [Next] to go to the next step.
Then enter the registration information and serial number (Serial Number), click [Next]
After confirming that the registration information is correct, click [Yes].
Continue to click the [Next] button on the interface.
The main program of Premiere will be installed soon.
After the main program is installed, QuickTime4 will be installed automatically, click [Next].
The QuickTime license agreement interface appears. The default interface is in Dutch, which is incomprehensible at all. Click the pop-up menu on the lower left and select English (after all, we have all learned it), and the interface immediately changes to English. , click [Agree],
then press the Enter key all the way to confirm, QuickTime is also installed, click [Close] to close the last interface.
Let’s try running Premiere once. Click the [Start] button on the left side of the Windows taskbar and select [Programs]-gt; [Adobe]-gt; [Premiere 6.0]-gt; Adobe Premiere 6.0 , start Premiere 6.0, and a registration interface will appear when running for the first time. If you do not want to register via the Internet, you can select "Do not display this dialog again", and then click [Continue] to continue.
The window that appears below shows different modes of workspace. I am used to using the A/B track editing mode on the left and click the button "Select A/B Editing" on the left.
Then there is the loading interface of the project's preset settings. Premiere6.0 provides some ready-made settings, such as editing settings for digital video cameras (DV). You can click [Custom...] to define your own presets. The detailed method was published in the second issue of this magazine this year. Click [OK] to enter the program main interface.
As you can see, there are several windows in the main interface of Premiere. The Project window displays the called materials, the Timeline displays the video and audio tracks, and the Monitor displays the video screen. window, and other windows display transitions, audio and video filters, various effect controls, etc. These windows can all be zoomed.
When I came into contact with Premiere for the first time, I felt that the numerous menus and buttons were dazzling. We first learned some of the functions we need, and ignored the rest for the time being. Experience is gradually accumulated. Click the menu File->Exit to exit Premiere. In the next issue, I will continue to introduce you to the specific operations of Premiere6.0.