Building Your Own Inexpensive Home Editing Suite

As a beginning video editor just learning the ropes, it may seem impractical to build up your own editing suite in your home or apartment. I agree, if you are comfortable doing your limited-scale editing on your home PC or Mac. However, if you decide to get more advanced and find yourself limited by the hardware you have, it might be time to upgrade to a home editing system that can cater to your more professional needs.

I would like to share with the reader some tips for creating a home editing suite, as I have done in my apartment, and hopefully show that, for not a lot of money and time, you can increase efficiency of your editing system.

First off, the obvious question: Mac or PC? The obvious answer: If you have a solid chunk of change you are going to put into your system and are comfortable with Final Cut Studio and other Mac software, by all means go for Mac. The new Mac desktops have super fast Intel processors in dual-core and quad-core arrangements. Splurge on the system, buy two 17’’ or 19’’ monitors, and you are set. Read the rest of this entry »

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The MindBites Insight (Episode #2- Editing Basics for Mac)

Well, last week we made a promise in our blog that we had hardly hoped to keep. We boldly pledged to bring you weekly episodes of The MindBites Insight, a fledgling program intended to teach the millions of yearning MindBiters out there in cyberland how to use the myriad of digital production tools available to the common man/woman. However altruistic and lofty this goal may have been, we never expected to be held to its implications. I mean how conceivable is it that someone would have actually read our minuscule, virtually undetectable blog post?

But someone did read it, and now our boss says we have “obligations”. Great.

So, back by popular demand, and for an indefinitely extended run, is the glorious MindBites Insight with the second episode EDITING BASICS (for Macs).

Yes, we apologize for the platform specific instruction, but there is a ton of information to discuss when dealing with either a Mac or a PC, so we decided to split the two. The next Insight episode will deal with editing on a PC. Read the rest of this entry »

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