Now, don’t get me wrong…I am not kicking AVS to the curb. Unlike AVS, the Premiere eases use of timecode-based editing. It was then that I discovered Adobe Premiere Elements and purchased a license for it. I also realized that, as spiffy as AVS might be for straight editing, I needed something that would make life very easy for working with timecodes.
It was only then that I realized that this is a serious challenge to many levels of video editor, especially a novice one like myself! On December 19th, our choir presented a Christmas Cantata entitled “One of Us.” I set up cameras in different spots and recorded the presentation and fully intended on retrieving the sound recorded from the soundboard and using it for the sound source while mixing video from the various visual captures.
As part of this initially-frustrating project, I determined to write a program to simplify the process of extracting and lining up clips to preserve the synchronization of a soundtrack with the movements in the video. This new project has certainly pushed me into a new realm of video editing because I have to consider the importance of maintaining perfect (or near-perfect) synchronization between lip movements and a separate soundtrack. The use of timecodes is absolutely critical in a project that I recently embarked upon. I subsequently also invested in Adobe’s Premiere Elements 9 principally because it makes use of timecodes easier. I started using a pretty nice entry-level editing suite called AVS which I blogged about in “AVS Video Editor – A really good starting point!” earlier this month. I am a relative newcomer to the world of video so editing is somewhat challenging.
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