Computer Chronicles

Can you produce the next generation of "The Blair Witch Project" at home on your computer. We'll show you some of the tricks of personal computers these days that you can use to turn your ideas into real movies as well as just how to add some production value to your home videos. [Episode #1708, First broadcast: 11/9/1999] Digital Video for Dummies Multimedia author, Martin Doucette, shows us the differences between low, medium, and high-end digital video cameras. Martin uses the Canon Elura, GL1 and XL1 cameras to demonstrate "good", "better", and "best" levels of cameras consumers can choose from, and discusses the features that are important in each. Matrox G400-TV The G400-TV, is an all-in-one 3D graphics, video capture, and video editing card, providing full-resolution, full frame rate capture and playback with hardware-MJPEG compression/decompression. The advantage to installing the G400-TV into your PC is that since this is a hardware editing solution instead of just software, you are not limited by the speed of your PC processor. Apple's iMac iMovie We take a look at the iMacDV Special Edition, featuring a software called iMovie which is bundled on the DV models. iMovie software is meant for the first-time "filmmakers" to capture, edit, and create digital movies. Apple's G4 & Final Cut Pro Andrew Baum, with Apple Computer, demonstrates a beta version of Final Cut Pro 1.2 on a new Mac G4. He demonstrates the basic features of Final Cut Pro as he edits a short video piece. With the basic "drag and drop" technique, Andrew shows how easy Final Cut Pro makes editing, transitions, compositing, special effects, titling, and other ways of manipulating media. http://archive.org/details/DigitalH1999