Video Editing Tips

One of the open source programs to choose from, Ingex offers tape-less video capture using the serial data interface or you could try streaming input for real time encoding of data. It has the uncanny ability to obtain video from several sources as in a studio setting. It can also be configured to serve as a video editing server for Avid editing clients.

Using the Samba Virtual File System, it has the nice ability to use non-essential data storage for it’s libraries unlike most software commercial or free that do use up a lot of storage and memory. It’s small footprint makes it ideal for those who use Linux machines and the likes, making video on the cheap with less resources.

Opening up your options to open sourced software is very hard but considering the fact that there is a growing movement of open source users that use Unix-like languages it may be wise to get into the thick of if. Avidemux is a non-linear video editing software that allows decent visual effects in the form of filters from the developers. It can also convert video into one of the many formats it supports.

Using the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine it is user-changeable meaning it is customizable should you be a Linux geek who wishes more control on the features you get and have available to you. It was initially designed for the Unix-like platform but it can be made to run on Windows.

Blender is a free 3D graphics computer software that was released under a free GPL license. Authored by an animation studio way back in 1989, it has since evolved into a multi-platform 3D generating software. It is capable of 3D rendering and metallic material representation that results in high resolution rendering of graphics.

Many hail the software as a mid-range product compared to other more commercial software that are customized for advanced graphics generation but considering the fact that it is free, it tops them is many aspects in terms of function and capabilities. One of the advantages is that the software comes in a very small footprint, not needing specialized computers for it to perform it’s magic. You do need to meet some minimum requirements but compared to specialized software of the same caliber it works on the cheap.