Robot Edits Video!
‘You unwrapped the new digital camcorder early and made a pest of yourself at holiday parties. Now you’ve got hours of raw footage that nobody would nominate for a Golden Globe.
You could toss the cassettes in a drawer and forget about them, but that would mean all your effort went for naught. You could show the tapes in their unedited glory, with appropriate intervals of fast-forwarding, but your victims are likely to squirm and make snide remarks.
You could edit the stuff into something vaguely coherent, perhaps with an upbeat musical background that might stand a chance of keeping viewers awake. But that would require learning at least the rudiments of a video editing program, the simplest of which can be baffling to the uninitiated.
A better option: Let software do the editing for you. The auto movie functions in Windows programs like Pinnacle Studio 9 and Roxio Easy Media Creator 7 aren’t bad, but the results are pretty bare-bones and leave the tedious finishing touches to you. So I tried a prerelease copy of the new 4.0 version of Muvee AutoProducer ($70), which does one thing and one thing only: Edit your footage into a music video pretty much automatically.’
Read more of this article at Forbes.com: Robot Edits Video!
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