Chapter 1 Movie Editing Tools Assessment

1. Differentiate between the features of virtualdub, wax, movica and moviestorm.

Virtualdub Movica Wax Moviestorm

1. It has a GNU (GPL) 1. It has a useful GUI 1. High performance 1. It is a complete 3D

license used for video to edit movie files. video compositing and movie making s/w for
capturing and editing. 2. It is able to edit files special effects s/w. all abilities.
2. It has fast linear which virtualdub 2. It can create 2D and 2. You can create
operation over videos. cannot. 3D special effects. animations.
3. Batch processing for 3. It works 3. It had 2 modes
large no of files. on .wmv, .flv, .rm a. Standalone mode
4. Can process AVI and .mpg files. useful for home users.
files but can only read b. Plugin mode to
MPEG files. video editors, used by
5. Can handle sets of professional editors.
BMP images.

2. Explain non linear editing tool which does horizontal layering.

Mewa film is a non-linear editing tool in which video files are shown as a sequence of images layed
off horizontally. These video files can then be assembled and cut using actions such as ‘drag and
drop’ and ‘rubber band selection’.
3. Which tool should be used for .avi files?
AVI edit AVI trimmer AVI tricks video editor

1. It works with AVI files. 1. It is a tool for fast and 1. Non Linear, non destructive
2. Join and split AVI files. lossless AVI editing. AVI editor with real time
3. Extract frames. 2. It involves no encoding/ preview.
4. Send videos to printer decoding process. 2. Cutting and joining footages
5. Heavy compress and can 3. No audio/ video degradation are easy.
post it to web pages. and out of sync problems.
4. Explain two non destructive and non linear tools for video editing.

Zwei-stien video editor AVI tricks video editing

1. It is a non-linear, non-destructive video 1. It is a non-linear, non-destructive AVI video

compositing and editing system with many
advanced features.
2. It can edit 256 video, audio and still image
clips chained serially.
3. Cropping, panning and custom effects are
easy with automatic key frames.
editor with real time preview.
2. It makes cutting and joining footages easy
and has a wide range of built in adjustable
effects.
3. Besides the preview it represents the video
graphically on a timeline and a tree- structure.
These fields are active and easy to work on.