This document provides information about video editing, including definitions, goals, and different video editing software options. It defines video editing as the process of manipulating and rearranging video shots to create a new work. The goals of video editing are outlined as removing unwanted footage, choosing the best footage, creating a flow, adding effects/graphics/music, and altering the style, pace or mood. Several free and paid video editors are listed and described briefly, including their advantages and disadvantages. The document also references how to download a free video editor and find a tutorial for using one.

1. By: Ignacio Pomares & Alejandro Toscano
Video editors

2. Video editing is the process of
manipulating and rearranging
video shots to create a new work.
We use the word editing to mean any of
the following:
●Rearranging, adding and/or removing
sections of video clips and/or audio clips.
●Applying colour correction, filters and
other enhancements.
●Creating transitions between clips.
1. What is video editing?

3. ● Post Production: Everything that happens to the video and audio after production.
● Capture Device: A hardware or device used to convert analogue into digital video.
● Compressors & Codecs: Software used to compress and decompress digital
video.
● Encoding: The process of converting digital video into a particular format.
● Layering: Adding multiple layers of superimposed video.
● Linear Editing: A method of editing in which footage is copied from one tape to
another in the required order.
● Non Linear Editing: An editing method which uses computer software to edit the
footage.
Some keywords about video editing

4. Before you begin you must clearly define your editing goals, which could include
any of the following or all of them:
2. The Goals of video editing:
Goals of video editing
I: Remove unwanted footage
II: Choose the best footage
III: Create a flow
IV: Add effects, graphics, music, etc
V: Alter the style, pace or mood of the
video.
VI: Give the video a particular "angle"

5. 3. Different video editors
Video
editors
Price Compatible
operating
systems
Advantages Disadvantages Link to
download
Microsoft
movie
maker
free Windows useful, easy and free
upgrades
only for Windows users http://www.
microsoft.
com/spain/wind
owslive/moviem
aker.aspx
Apple
Imovie
free Mac useful, easy and free
upgrades
only for Mac users http://apple-
imovie-update.
softonic.
com/mac/desca
rgar
Avid
FreeDV
free Windows
and Mac
useful for all type of
users and basic
video and audio
editing capabilities
hard to use http://avid-free-
dv.softonic.
com/
Wax free Windows
and Mac
flexible,for home
users and
professionals and
unlimited video and
sound tracks.
college project and it
need help of other video
editors.
http://wax.
softonic.com/

6. Video editor Price Compatible
operating
systems
Advantages Disadvantages Link to
download
Pinnacle 60-130$ for everyone HD, 3D,
professional video
editing,
hard to use and very
expensive
http://www.
pinnaclesys.
com/PublicSite/us/Pr
oducts/Consumer+Pr
oducts/Home+Video/
Studio+Family/
Final cut pro 45$ Mac motion graphics,
multicam editing
and file-based
workflow
only for Mac,
expensive and hard to
use
http://www.apple.
com/es/finalcutpro/
Media 100 995-
1995$
Mac everything you can
have for a
professional video
editing
only for Mac and very
expensive
http://www.borisfx.
com/store/cart.php?
target=category&cat
egory_id=8

7. 4. How to download a free video editor
(Slide Talk presentation)

8. 5. Tutorial of a video editor
(Youtube video)