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Little Digital Video Book, The
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Little Digital Video Book, The

by Michael Rubin
September 2001
Beginner
192 pages
5h 7m
English
Peachpit Press
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Chapter 5. Getting Ready to Edit

Shooting is easy. Everyone knows how to use a camera. And if you watch your video only once after you shoot it, there are few consequences for fairly bad shooting. How wonderful!

Editing, on the other hand, is the problem. Most people don't have an intuitive sense of how to edit a video and, therefore, find the idea daunting. You might think that shooting video is for amateurs, but editing it is only for professionals. This isn't true, but I can sympathize with the reasoning. Until very recently, the tools for editing were too complicated for home video enthusiasts to deal with. But organizing and editing your video can be the most satisfying part of the process. Editing tools now on the market—with (I promise) ...

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