Video Editing Services
Our Video Editing Services includes
• Re-arrange & assemble scenes
• Remove unwanted shots
• Take out audio
• Add music of your choice
• Insert transitions & effects
What is included in your package
• Customized DVD
• DVD case
• Full color cover
• Full color labels
• Professionally made menus
• Art proofs sent to you via Email
• DVD movie reviewable online
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Video Editing - History
The first truly non-linear editor, the CMX 600 [1], was made in the early 1970s by the CMX Corporation (a joint venture between CBS and Memorex). It recorded & played back black-and-white video recorded in analog in "skip-field" mode on modified disk pack drives the size of washing machines (which were more commonly used with storing data on mainframe computers of the time). The 600 had a console with 2 monitors built in, with the editor making cuts and edit decisions using a light pen to select options suprerimposed as text over the preview video on the right monitor (the left monitor was used to display the edited video). A Digital PDP-11 computer served as a controller for the whole system. Because the video edited on the 600 was in black and white and in low-resolution "skip-field" mode, the 600 was suitable only for offline editing.
Various approximations of non linear were built in the 80's using computers coordinating multiple laser discs, or banks of VCRs. Computer processing advanced sufficiently by the late 80's to enable true digital imagery, and has progressed today to provide this capability in software on personal computers. (more)
Video Editing
Non-linear editing for film and television postproduction, a modern editing method, involves being able to access a frame in a video clip with the same ease as any other. This method was inherent in the cut and glue world of film editing from the beginning but, in world of analogue film, editing was a destructive process. It was also linear. Non linear, non-destructive methods began to appear with the first digital images. (more)
History of DVDs
During the early 1990s there were two high density optical storage standards in development; one was the MultiMedia Compact Disc (MMCD), backed by Philips and Sony, and the other was the Super Density Disc (SD), supported by Toshiba, Time-Warner, Matsushita Electric, Hitachi, Mitsubishi Electric, Pioneer, Thomson, and JVC. IBM's president, Lou Gerstner, acting as a matchmaker, led an effort to unite the two camps behind a single standard, anticipating a repeat of the costly format war between VHS and Betamax in the 1980s.
Philips and Sony abandoned their MMCD format and agreed upon Toshiba's SD format with two modifications that are both related to the servo tracking technology. The first one was the adoption of a pit geometry that allows "push-pull" tracking, a proprietary Philips/Sony technology. The second modification was the adoption of Philips' EFMPlus. EFMPlus, created by Kees Immink, who also designed EFM, is 6% less efficient than Toshiba's SD code, which resulted in a capacity of 4.7 Gbyte instead of SD's original 5 Gbyte. The great advantage of EFMPlus is its great resilience against disc damage such as scratches and fingerprints. The result was the DVD specification Version 1.0, announced of 1995, and finalized in September 1996.(more)
Types of DVDs
Confused about DVDs? Here are is simple explaination of each disc.The disc medium can be:
DVD-ROM (read only, manufactured by a press)
DVD-R/RW (R = Recordable once, RW = ReWritable)
DVD-RAM (random access rewritable)
DVD+R/RW (R = Recordable once, RW = ReWritable)
DVD-R DL ("dual layer")
DVD+R DL ("double layer")
Two DVDs with different bottom sides.
The disc may have one or two sides, and one or two layers of data per side; the number of sides and layers determines the disc capacity.
DVD-5: single sided, single layer, 4.7 gigabytes (GB), or 4.38 gibibytes (GiB)
DVD-9: single sided, double layer, 8.5 GB (7.92 GiB)
DVD-10: double sided, single layer on both sides, 9.4 GB (8.75 GiB)
DVD-14: double sided, double layer on one side, single layer on other, 13.3 GB (12.3 GiB)
DVD-18: double sided, double layer on both sides, 17.1 GB (15.9 GiB)More
Christmas Gift - video editing
Thinking of a gift for your relatives? Friends? Why not let Azure Production put together a video for your family this season and share your vacation videos, parties and events with everyone. Update the rest of your relatives with your current life! (
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DVDs
DVDs are made from a 0.6 mm thick disc of polycarbonate plastic coated with a much thinner (reflective) aluminium layer. Two such discs are glued together to form a 1.2 mm double-sided disc. The substrates are half as thick as a CD to make it possible to use a lens with a higher numerical aperture and therefore use smaller pits and narrower tracks.
A single-layer DVD can store 4.7 Gbyte, which is around seven times as much a standard CD-ROM. By employing a red laser at 650 nm (was 780 nm) wavelength and a numerical aperture of 0.6 (was 0.45), the read-out resolution is increased by a factor 1.65. This holds for two dimensions, so that the actual physical data density increases by a factor of 3.5. DVD uses a more efficient coding method in the physical layer. CD's error correction, CIRC, is replaced by a powerful Reed-Solomon product code, RS-PC; Eight-to-Fourteen Modulation (EFM) is replaced by a more efficient version, EFMPlus, which has the same characteristics as classic EFM. The CD subcode is removed. As a result, the DVD format is 47 percent more efficient with respect to CD-ROM, which uses a "third" error correction layer.read more
Panasonic PV-GS65 Camcorder Review
Panasonic’s new PV-GS65 breaks the under $600 barrier, making it the lowest-priced 3 CCD Panasonic camcorder ever. It is equipped with the same imagers found on last year’s PV-GS120, but has some upgrades from last year’s model, including a new menu system, better navigational control, and a more stream-lined body that is easy operate with one hand. Panasonic has taken off the “Leica” lens to reduce the price. Like last year's batch, Panasonic’s new PV-GS65 3 CCD camcorder produces great video quality at an affordable price. (More)
