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You'll learn important information about digital video editing software. You’ll learn the tools you need to get started in digital video editing including valuable tips and techniques for creating titles, editing sequences and editing audio.

The editors and experts at Videomaker have created this DVD to introduce you to the video editing software, and techniques you need to know to edit like a professional including tips for creating video titles, and how to adjust color when editing.

From rough cut to finished product, you want to deliver the goods as cleanly as possible. Here are the Seven Steps to Creating an Excellent Polished Work.

It's a bird... it's a plane... it's ... the motivated edit? It's a powerful editing technique, but to execute it well, you must consider the final edit when you plan the first shot.

Every blockbuster movie has hundreds or even thousands of edits, yet the viewer often is unaware of the cut. Why? In many cases, the change is very subtle, using a technique which is often known as a Natural Transition.

Reader Tips

Whether it's shooting a wedding, baseball game, church service or two-person interview, shooting it with more than one camera can be a time-saving and very creative endeavor.

Low cost camera tricks to create amazing illusions for your viewers.

Our media-soaked culture has made cinematic shorthand a second language.

Sure, your editing program has 999 transitions--but nowhere in the licensing agreement did you oblige yourself to use each and every one of them.

Gather 'round the family and friends for a multi-camera shoot and a fun time for all.

All the tricks and techniques of in-camera effects that take your ho-hum video from the ordinary to the brilliant with these savvy shooter's tips.

The split edit is one of the simplest and most powerful edits you should have in your toolbox.

The Dissolve: A Winning Edit

Having Fun with Swish Pans

And in the center ring: the amazing, the gigantic, the most impressive typography known to mankind... Ladies and Gentlemen! Feast your eyes on 3D titles!

Whether you're making movies, or corporate videos, in a virtual production world, having the right video effects are nowadays as important as acquiring that Big Name actor once was.

Tempis Fugit. If you're not up on conversational Latin, that's

Editing aesthetics are tough to describe. They involve using a little bit of everything at your disposal to create a believable viewing experience.

No video transition is so simple and inexpensive as the cut. And none is so powerful.

Here's how to put transitions to work in your video productions.

Edit Types

Shots and Scenes

Editing is more than just sticking scenes together - it's a strange language, a discipline, an art. In this article, we'll show you how to master editing and improve your videos.

Editing is an important part of making video. But the best edits are those that the audience doesn't even notice.

The content of your video is important, but so is the way you put it together.

Be on the lookout for the Federal Bureau of Editing Aesthetics' most wanted perpetrators. After you read this article, you won't be able to say you weren't warned about how NOT to edit.

How can a videographer who only has one camcorder and no control room hope to produce a slick and professional-looking video? Find out how in this article about clever editing techniquesfor making one camera look like many.

Spinning a good tale is as important to video as having good gear.