A Look at Editing Packages
By Albert Stefani
My involvement with video editing stems from a media studies background in teaching through to working for an environmental consulting firm that produces corporate training videos. Like most in the game, I have had to constantly alter my methods of working with each new development in the technology. But right from the outset I must declare that from my own experience, digital editing far exceeds traditional analogue practices, both in terms of flexibility and output of the final product.
For this article I will present my experiences using two digital video editing (DVE) products: Adobe's Premiere (version 5.1) and Ulead's Media Studio Pro (version 5.2). In both cases, I have run the applications on Windows 98 platforms and whilst I have not come anywhere near exhausting the features of either package, I have experienced enough to make some comments about the strengths and weaknesses of each.
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