It was summer 2006; the second year of NED (means lots of free time and no work to do). I had a handycam, I knew how to capture video from handycam through a PCI TV capture card, and most importantly I knew that a software named adobe premier was used for video editing (infact professional video editing). The only two things required were "the video" and some quick start tutorials to start working with premier..
Luckily a class picnic was held and we were going to farm!!
Luckily a class picnic was held and we were going to farm!!
A lot of video was shooted by me and my mates that eventually came to my editing desk. There was still one thing doubtful; whether I was able to work with premier and whether I had enough hardware resources (RAM, enough memory on AGP card and offcourse hard-disk space).
Before assuring my friends and company that video editing and post production were in progress I actually had to test pass these things.
I gave myself 4 tasks:
Before assuring my friends and company that video editing and post production were in progress I actually had to test pass these things.
I gave myself 4 tasks:
1. Take a long video, cut out some small clippings from it and compile it
2. Take a long video, cut out some small clippings and compile the clippings
3. Perform some transitional effects on multiple clips
4. Play with the audio behind the video
and guess what.. it passed!!
initially I had a little memory related issue on 256 MB RAM but it went well with 512MB.
My system at that time was:
Pentium 3, some 800MHz??
Intel D815 board
512 MB RAM
128 MB AGP card
PCI TV capture card (not professional one)
and Adobe premier 7.0 on Win XP
For newbies using premier, they might suffer from its UI and rich set of controls that pops up first time, a little R&D could be required by reading premier's manual or by googling a bit.
What you have to take care first is to make a decision for some video parameters; NTSC or PAL?? square pixels or widescreens?? I am not that professional to describe all these, what i did was that I created little samples of some favourite parameters and then decided what to produce in a long term.
After overcoming such technical things finally you are ready to prepare a presentation.
The bad thing about movie making is that many dimensions of perceptions can be made from the same piece of video; some showing reality while other perspective might be deceptive far from reality, so a lot of care must be taken. The good thing is that you can present your way of seeing things... but again it should be in certain code of conduct.
For newbies using premier, they might suffer from its UI and rich set of controls that pops up first time, a little R&D could be required by reading premier's manual or by googling a bit.
What you have to take care first is to make a decision for some video parameters; NTSC or PAL?? square pixels or widescreens?? I am not that professional to describe all these, what i did was that I created little samples of some favourite parameters and then decided what to produce in a long term.
After overcoming such technical things finally you are ready to prepare a presentation.
The bad thing about movie making is that many dimensions of perceptions can be made from the same piece of video; some showing reality while other perspective might be deceptive far from reality, so a lot of care must be taken. The good thing is that you can present your way of seeing things... but again it should be in certain code of conduct.
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