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kennyuche (m)
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Hi Nairaland users,
If you're familiar with video editing or you're into the business, I need guidelines on what it takes to venture in a video editing business. I need to know the kind of equipments, softwares and skills required to take off.
Please its very important because am carrying out a feasibility study on this project. Thanks
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ogbotobo (m)
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You would have to spend around 200.000 Naira to get yourself the right PC with all the right stuff for video editing in it. A popular editing software like Pinnacle Studio 10 Plus will cost you 25000 Naira. It has a lot of excellent features, including DVD authoring, and it doesn't take much to understand how it works. There are various DVD tutorials available to teach you how to make the most out of it. If you are interested, I could give you the configurations of the PC I am using, as a guide line as to what to look for should you want to get one for yourself.
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kennyuche (m)
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Please let me kno your config specification to use in setin up mine.
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crux (m)
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Ogbotobo could you please post the config online? i think i really need that stuff too.
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ogbotobo (m)
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Hi Kenny and Crux,
This is what I bought 9 month ago:
Fujitsu Siemens PC Celsius M440 P4-660 3.6G
Win XP Prof
Intel Pentium 4 (660)/ 3600 MHz
2048 (2x1024) MB RAM
500 (2x250) GB HDD
Double Layer DVD+/-RW
ATI Fire GL V3250/256 MB
My video editing software is Pinnacle Liquid 6 Pro (Pinnacle has been bought out by AVID now)
Whenever I'm in a hurry, I still use Pinnacle Studio 10 Plus, because it so easy to put things together, and I'm used to the various editions from Studio 6 onwards for a long time.
You should realize that when you get into the more sophisticated video editing softwares, it does take quite some time to get to know how it works.
There is no ultimate answer to what to buy, so please see this posting as a mere account of equipment I've been using for some time now and being happy with.
I wish you fun and success with your editing.
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kennyuche (m)
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Thanx a lot men.
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talk2ahmed (m)
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Thats pretty nice, but i think ULEAD Studio, Xilisoft software would be of great help too
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Seun (m)
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Windows Movie Maker is the best video editor I've tried so far. It's so easy to use. I intend to use it to edit my commercial project and use VirtualDub to enhance it. For creating VCD/DVD images, I'll use mencoder and Nero!
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williamnow
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ogbotobo plz send me the configuration or any one who has the pc configuration for video editing.
thanks.
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Christino (m)
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Ulead Video Studio is by far the easiest i've used so far, and i'm going to use it to Pull Seun's legs soon, i'm just waiting for the MP3 of the sound track, it's going to be lots of fun by the time i'm through.  |
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Seun (m)
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What video editor do you know that can work with just 512mb of memory?
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Christino (m)
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512MB of Video, RAM or HDD Memory? For option 1 - Video, almost any video Editor Software should work with that but for the HDD? Well, I really doubt, because most graphic software require some great deal of swap memory or paging file and other stuffs on the hard disk, maybe MS Movie Maker  |
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Gridlock (m)
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If you're going to be doing video editing, You need lots of RAM (say, 512MB or more), and you will need a capacitous harddisk. Very. I once worked on a Class album that involved video editing, and i found i was running out of space fast because the video data had to be stored as RAW (uncompressed) AVI. Considering the fact that 50 secs of uncompressed video is like 50MB, you get what i mean. And I had only one 40GB disk. I had to (unfortunately) use one of the inbuilt codecs for windows, compressing at 80%. I finally scaled down the videos to 25% of their original aspect ratio to hide my "flaws".  And one more thing: you need to backup your data frequently, and you will also need to use a modern, journaling filesystem like EXT3, ReiserFS or NTFS - you will be getting files as large as 4GB (or more ,  ) |
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Seun (m)
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When I load Sony Vegas on my system with 512mb of memory, it's sluggish but usable. 1gb would be much better.
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Seun (m)
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I ue 2gb and it flies, but i still prefer windows movie maker. I don't know why.
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solarrr
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hi mr seun are u there?  please reply me now |
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crux (m)
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i use adobe premire 1.5 with MS movie maker, they are together wonderful, i started with pro show gold, for electroni album i even used it for a year album for a secondary school, but ever since i started using vista, i stopped using it because it didnt install on my pc, but the two former are too much, those are what i use for my new "WEDDING VIDEO PACKAGE". Want to know what that entails? Call!
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