Digital Video Editing Fundamentals

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2. Digital Video Hardware: Configuring the Workstation

Wallace Jackson¹ 

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Lompoc, California, USA

 

Now that we have taken a look at some of the digital video editing software packages, let’s take a look at some of the digital video editing hardware that you will need to acquire and assemble to put together a professional video editing workstation. The hardware components in a digital video editing workstation are extremely important, as digital video is quite “data heavy,” as it contains a series of high resolution imagery called “frames” that can span hours of content, taking the data processed into the Terabytes. This can require a gaggle of fast ...