Creating Movies

Movie Files | Creating Movies

Creating Movies

If you have access to an analogue video camera, a digital video camera, or a digital still camera (some models can shoot 15-30 seconds of video), you can use it to create your own movie files. In the case of the analogue video camera, you will need a way to convert the video footage into a digital format that your computer can handle.
The documentation for the software used with a digital video camera should provide the details of how to create movies. The original movie clips will probably be stored in a proprietary format, in which case it will be necessary to have software that converts the format to the common ones used on the web (AVI, MPEG, and Quicktime).
Apart from the software bundled with digital cameras, there are other programs that let you manipulate video files. One popular digital movie editing program is iMovie, which is now included with new Macintosh hardware. In the following section we'll take a brief look at how this program works.


			Movie Files \| Creating Movies
		Creating Movies If you have access to an analogue video camera, a digital video camera, or a digital still camera (some models can shoot 15-30 seconds of video), you can use it to create your own movie files. In the case of the analogue video camera, you will need a way to convert the video footage into a digital format that your computer can handle. The documentation for the software used with a digital video camera should provide the details of how to create movies. The original movie clips will probably be stored in a proprietary format, in which case it will be necessary to have software that converts the format to the common ones used on the web (AVI, MPEG, and Quicktime). Apart from the software bundled with digital cameras, there are other programs that let you manipulate video files. One popular digital movie editing program is iMovie, which is now included with new Macintosh hardware. In the following section we'll take a brief look at how this program works.