Digital Video Editing Getting Started FAQ

It’s not that difficult to set up a digital video editing system and start editing within 1 hour if you are familiar with computers.

But you WILL encounter problems sooner or later. You’d better know the basics of digital video editing to make your editing life easier.
This page features straight-forward, easy-to-understand information about getting [...]

Professional Digital Video Editing Systems

Although this web site is mainly for home video makers rather than professional video editors, I’ll list the most popular professional video editing systems here for completeness anyway
You may want to upgrade to professional solutions someday. Yes, video editing is an addiction. Or maybe you want to start your own production house and make your [...]

DV, FireWire (or iLink, IEEE1394) Are The Hottest

The latest technology in digital video editing is DV and FireWire.

If you are setting up a new system, go digital right from start. That means, buy a DV camcorder and video capture card with FireWire port.
What is DV?
As you can guess, DV stands for “Digital Video”. It is the new high resolution digital video standard.
DV [...]

Choose Storage For Your Video Editing System

One of the most confusing things about digital video editing is the storage requirement. In this page I will help you better understand just what kind of storage you will need for your video productions.

Finally digital video makers have a range of choices for storing their digital video files. Todays new hard drive and RAID [...]

Choose Capture Card For Your Editing System

The process of video production is something like this:

1. Capture the video to your computer using a capture card
2. Edit the video in a video editing software
3. Download edited video to tape or burn it to VCD, CD or DVD
Video capture card is the device that transfers videos between your computer hard drive and camcorder/VCR. [...]