Category Archives: Web Videos
Building an Editing Workstation Part 3: Hard Drive
Share In my first two posts on building an editing workstation, I covered the motherboard / processor and memory and video cards. In this last post, I want to cover the other really crucial component of any workstation, the hard drive. Hard Drive The hard drives you throw into your system and their configuration can [...]
Building an Editing Workstation Part 2: Memory & Video Cards
Share Now that you’ve got your motherboard and processor (covered in Building an Editing Workstation Part 1), let’s take a look at memory and video cards. Memory This is the one area that you can splurge on without spending a whole lot. I’d recommend throwing at least 4GB of memory into your workstation. By today’s [...]
Building an Editing Workstation Part 1: Motherboard / Processor
Share The best thing about technology is that the more it advances, the less it costs. Today you can get a 1TB 7200-rpm hard drive for under a hundred bucks. Ten years ago, that might’ve gotten you a 10GB hard drive. The same goes for memory. Today you can get 6GB of DDR3 RAM for [...]
Making DV Footage Look Good on the Web
Share Video has come a long, long ways in the last few years in terms of web friendly video. High definition video cameras can now record video as progressive footage, meaning there is no need to de-interlace the footage prior to viewing it on a computer monitor. By nature, high definition (or HD) footage is [...]
Video Editing Software: What’s the Best?
Share I’m going to try to keep this blog as short and simple as possible. So what is the best video editing software out there? For those of you looking for that answer, you won’t find it here. It’s a trick question. The truth of the matter is that most professional level NLEs, or non [...]
