Digital Video Scene Editing

I recently started video taping key services and dramas in order to make DVDs available of these events. I thought it would be neat to make this content available on the web as well using our streaming PHP product called Andromeda (www.turnstyle.com). Part of the process of making the video available includes cutting out the specific scenes we want to show and compressing the video to an acceptible level for viewing online.

I'm using a product called "VideoRedo" (www.drdsystems.com/VideoReDo/download.htm) to take the raw mpeg files I've shot and am using it to cut out the scenes. It's a very easy product to use and is specifically designed for this process.

I'm also using Ulead Video Studio for the compression portion of this project. Video Studio allows you to compress video in preparation to send it to a Pocket PC device. This changes the format from mpeg to wmv (viewable only on Windows based systems) but also gives you a good quality video and fairly small file size for uploading to your website.