Resources

Editing Software

For PC Users

• Sony Vegas Movie Studio 9 starts at $54.95. It’s the fun, easy way to create and share your own movies. With Vegas Movie Studio home video editing software you can create captivating videos that beg to be watched again and again. Digital video editing tools add professional pizzazz with transitions, titles, and special effects including green screen. Quickly format movies for online use.

• MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 15 tarts at $49.99 Your start in the world of video editing, Movie Edit Pro 15 helps you enrich your video recordings quickly and easily to produce breathtaking movies. Simply add fitting music, professional fades, and select effects to your videos. The comfortable interface, advanced automations, and handy assistants guarantee perfect results at lightning speed! You’ll be well on your way to professional looking videos for the web.

For Macs Users

• iMovie Free. As part of the iLife feature on all new Macs, iMovie brings you movies that aren’t a production to make. Maybe you want to throw together a few video clips. Maybe you have more time and want to fine-tune every edit. Or maybe you just want to flip through clips the way you flip through album covers in iTunes. iMovie lets you do it all — then share it all. It offers drag-and-drop editing — a fun and easy way to make movies, even if you’ve never edited a single frame. And the best part? It’s free with your Mac!

• Final Cut Express 4 $199 ($99 upgrade). Edit like a pro. Start by capturing DV, HDV and AVCHD footage or import your movie from iMovie ’08 — and discover the advanced moviemaking power at your disposal in the new, Open Format Timeline. Ready for still more? Add dynamic titles and graphics using LiveType. Final Cut Express 4 delivers all the tools you need to make great movies.

Hosting and Uploading Videos

Hosting – if you don’t want to do it through your web server

• Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is an online service provided by Amazon.com, that allows web designers to store large amounts of data online. S3 is free to join, and is a pay-as-you-go sevice, meaning you only ever pay for any of the hosting and bandwidth costs that you use, making it very attractive for start-up companies looking to minimize costs. On top of this, the fully scalable, fast and reliable service provided by Amazon, makes it highly attractive to web designers all over the world.

Uploading

• eZs3 is a service which allows you to fully manage your own Amazon S3 account, including uploading and downloading files and folders, and creating players and wrappers that you can easily use to embed media files on your website.

• DVKitchen

Equipment

• B&H is world renowned as the place to be for all your video and pro audio  needs. Their commitment to sales quality and customer satisfaction is second to none. 

• Radio Shack microphones