Video & Audio Editing Software
This software can be very useful in web page design
Video Editing and Compos iting Software
If you need to create video for the web, you'll need some type of video editing software that can create output in web friendly formats.
Video editing software allows you to edit original source video and/or still images into a suitable final video form. It allows you to add titles, special effects and transitions between scenes. It also allows you to render the video into a format suitable to use on webiste.
Video compositing is defined by Wikipedia as "...compositing refers to creating complex images or moving images by combining images from different sources - such as real-world digital video, digitized film, synthetic 3-D imagery, 2-D animations, painted backdrops, digital still photographs, and text." Video compositing software allows you to accomplish this.
There are so many different programs available in this category, it will be difficult to name them all. Some are professional level, and others are targeted at beginners.
Most of these programs can create output in a format that works on the Web, such as QuickTime and Windows Media. If you'd like to use Flash video, you'll need Flash Professional to do the conversion.
I use Sony Vegas, a powerful professional level editor that creates output in all the important web formats. It also functions as a powerful audio editor.
Here are a sampling of programs available in this category:
- Sony Vegas (includes compositing and audio tools)
- iMovie HD, Final Cut Express HD, Final Cut Pro HD (these run on Mac only)
- Avid Xpress
- Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Premiere Elements
- Quicktime
- Pinnacle Studio
- Adobe After Effects (compositing software)
- Autodesk Combustion (compositing software)
- Apple Shake (compositing software)
Audio Creation and Editing Software
If you need to bring audio to your websites, you will find this software important and useful. Acid and Garage Band are loop-based music creation programs that allow you to build original, royalty free songs for your web site using "loops" - small samples of different instruments that can be strung together and layered to produce remarkable music. These packages are capable audio editors that allow you to piece together and process audio and record live sound. Finally, they can produce output in a format suitable for your website.
- Audacity (free!)
- Sony Acid (loop-based music creation)
- Sony Sound Forge (professional level sound editing)
- Apple Garage Band (loop-based music creation)
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