This document discusses various technologies used in video editing and production including video editing software, recording hardware, online software, and other software outside of filming. It provides information on the capabilities and functions of tools like iMovie, Adobe After Effects, pole microphones, personal recorders, Prezi, SlideShare, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Photoshop. It concludes that while some technologies have overlapping functions, their differences become clearer when skills are developed, such as Premier Pro being better for overall editing versus After Effects focusing on individual clip editing.

1. Evaluation
What have you learnt about technologies from the process
of constructing this product?

2. Video Editing Software
LiveType
• It allows for the creation of animated text logos, and editing the text
itself while having rendered an effect
• iMovie
• Can be used to edit video clips, add transitions and sound
• Adobe After Effects
• Allows for the addition of special effects to videos
• Adobe Premier Pro
• Similar to iMovie in that it is a video editor, it allows for more extensive
editing

3. Recording Hardware
• Pole Microphone
• Records sound and allows for the use of outside sound effects or
dubbing, however external hardware is required to record actual
audio files
• Personal Recorders
• Where microphones record sound in higher quality, the personal
recorders come with their own data storage and thus using the
two together allows for higher quality data storage as opposed to
simply using one
• Handheld Video Cameras
• Video cameras allow for the recording of video clips and creating
files that can be used for editing – they come with various
settings and being handheld, allow for many different types of
shots

4. Online Software
• Prezi
• Allows for the creative display of ideas, though at times it can be
quite tedious
• SlideShare
• Using SlideShare, it is possible to upload PowerPoint
presentations to the internet for display – it became preferred to
Prezi due to the fact that Prezi was quite unreliable

5. Software Outside of Filming
• Microsoft
• Word
• Creation of text documents and the inclusion of pictures
• PowerPoint
• Presentation of ideas and thoughts – the fixed size of a presentation
doesn’t allow for the depth of information that could be found in a
word document
• Excel
• Storage of data, particularly useful when sorting through bigger lists,
such as the shoot edit decision list
• Adobe
• Photoshop
• By using Photoshop, it is possible to create a logo with impressive
visuals

6. Evaluation
Each of the technologies have different functions, and although
some overlap, once skills are used more in depth, their
differences become more and more apparent - for example with
Premier Pro and After Effects, their basic video editing
capabilities are the same, however Premier Pro is more useful in
the actual editing of the composition, whereas After Effects is
more useful in the editing of the individual clips.