Postproduction is the next stage of your production and it here that you select the material that is going to be included in your completed program. Material can come from a variety of sources:

• Camera - provides sound and vision
• Digital files - still pictures, text, voice over, music, sound effects and animation

Postproduction allows you to combine and control all these elements over time.

The main reasons why video production was so slow to be swept up into the all encompassing world of computing was that the computers were not fast enough to deal with the massive data rates demanded by reasonable quality video and the hard drives were not big enough to hold the huge raw media files that desktop video production generated. Only computers manufactured in the last 12 to 15 months are fast enough to accommodated video being fed into them via a firewire connection.

File size:

• Video consumes 3.6 mb/sec on your hard drive
• Or 13 gb per hour of footage
• EDTeC recommends using an external hard drive to store your projects and raw media.
• This allows you to move your projects between computers as the project is independent of the workstation. For example a project originator could use EDTeC’s computers to produce their project but retain their project on their own portable hard drive. This is a very flexible way to work and relieves you of the burden of having to pay for the production asset!

Explore digital editing:

Adobe’s Premiere Expert Centre (http://studio.adobe.com/expertcenter/premiere/main.html)
is an extremely well designed and useful editing resource. Bookmark this one as you will keep on coming back. There are particularly useful PDFs on Digital Video and Streaming Media.