Digital Video & Audio

Video content is a great enhancement for any presentation or website. We provide a variety of tools that allow you to convert existing video content, shoot new footage, and edit it all together. Look below for descriptions of our available video and audio software and hardware.

Additional Digital Video and Audio Resources

Note also that cameras and audio equipment can be checked out from Media Services for instructional use. The Knight and Science ITCs also have digital video stations.

Software

We provide a variety of video and audio editing tools for both the Macintosh and Windows platforms, and will gladly walk you through their use. The software applications we have available include

Adobe Premiere
Premiere has long been a standard in video editing. We have versions for the Macintosh, and Windows. Our Windows machine is augmented with a real-time Matrox video card, which allows us to do many editing tasks more quickly, without having to wait for the computer to render the transitions and special effects.
Apple Final Cut Pro
Apple's profesional video editing package has become a major challenger to Premiere over the last few years. It offers a wide range of advanced editing features including color adjustment and animation capabilities exceeding those of Premiere. It also has excellent compatibility with our Firewire camera. We have the latest version for our G4 PowerMac editing station.
Vegas Video
A slightly less complex package than Premiere for Windows, Vegas Video has a unique editing style that is focused more on the intergration of video with audio.
Apple iMovie 2
Apple has changed the video market with this little application. It ships standard with most Macs now, and provides an easy, yet powerful editing tool to a consumer audience. It is ideal for most simple video capture and editing tasks.
Apple QuickTime Pro
The full version of QuickTime allows for conversion between most formats of video, audio, and image files. It offers a wide range of compression and output options.
Apple QuickTime VR
QuickTime VR is a technology that can be used to create interactive 3D spaces that users can navigate through and look around. It uses panoramic images to create this effect.
Macromedia SoundEdit 16
One of the oldest and most widely used audio editing applications, SoundEdit has many simple audio editing capabilities. You can use it on our Macintosh system.
Peak DV Audio
Peak DV is an audio application that works in conjunction with Final Cut Pro. It offers most standard audio editing features, along with the ability to view your Final Cut Pro video footage while editing, making sychronization of sound effects significantly easier.
SoundForge
SoundForge is a powerful audio editing suite. It offers the most audio editing options of all our sound applications, and can take advantage of the real-time echo and distortion effects of our SoundBlaster Live card in our Windows editing station.
Pristine Audio
The primary function of this Windows application is to clean up audio, by removing annoying background noise or clicks and pops for sharper sound.
Discreet Cleaner
Editing video for the Web and CD-ROM can be a challenge. Video files can be extremely large and difficult to transfer at acceptable speeds even on fast networks on campus. Cleaner is designed to squeeze every possible bit of optimization out of video files, helping to achieve much better quality at smaller file sizes than video editing applications' default output. Plan ahead with this application, it can take several hours to perform optimization on a large video clip. We have both Macintosh and Windows versions.

Hardware

CET consulting has a 900 Mhz video editing PC with a real-time Matrox card featuring Premiere 6.0 and Vegas Video. This machine's features can create cross-dissolves and other transitions such as fades in real-time, thus eliminating the wait. The Matrox card has built in video and audio ins and outs for getting your footage straight to tape. Use this Windows machine to create great video for your instructional projects in less time!

We also provide a Macintosh video editing station, equipped with Apple's Final Cut Pro and iMovie2. iMovie offers a simple, consumer-level video editing solution that can run on any modern Macintosh. It provides an excellent solution for beginners and pros alike. If you need more advanced features, use Final Cut Pro. Synch up your sound with Peak DV, an audio application that allows you to edit the sound clips of your Final Cut Pro projects while viewing the video simultaneously.

Our equipment that you can use includes:

900 MHz Windows Workstation with
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
- 512 MB RAM
- 100 GB Hard drive
- Real-Time Matrox Video Card
- Creative Labs Live Drive
- 250 MB Zip Drive
- 16x Write CD Burner
933 MHz PowerMac G4 with
- Mac OS X 10.2
- 1.5 GB RAM
- 2 x 80 GB Hard drives
- 250 MB Zip Drive
- 120 MB SuperDisk Drive
- Apple SuperDrive DVD-R/CD-RW Drive
Sony Digital Video Handicam
Our miniDV camera for recording digital video is available for use in the CET consulting for video import and export. It can be checked out overnight for filming outside of the center, but please check first with Media Services before requesting our camera. They have multiple cameras, but call ahead to be certain that one will be available when you need it. We have a tutorial for using our camera.
Sony DV/Analog Converter
This equipment allows us to capture video and audio from VHS and cassette tapes, as well as to record DV-edited work back to those formats.
Sony Hi-Resolution Video Monitor
For viewing video content coming to or from the VHS deck.
Mitsubishi VHS Recorder
A standard VCR for playing and recording video to VHS tapes.
Harmon/Kardon Audio Deck
A standard audio tape player for playing and recording to audio cassette

Maintained by: Azle Malinao-Alvarez, azle@uoregon.edu
Last Modified: 10/18/2006