Chapter 2. Capturing and Processing Video

After you’ve shot the video footage you want to use online or for your business, the next step is saving the video on your desktop computer. In this chapter, you’ll learn the dos and don’ts of video capture. At the end of the chapter, you’ll perform fundamental video effects on your footage in Adobe After Effects.

Capturing Video

Unless the video footage you’ve acquired was shot on an analog tape format such as VHS, Hi8, or high-resolution Betacam SP, the process of digitizing the video footage into an editable file on your desktop is simple and straightforward. Digitizing is a general term used to describe the process of converting media content into binary files. If you have DV or HDV content on a miniDV ...

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