Video Post-Production In A Box
Amazing filmlike effects (in real time) are easily achieved with this simple-to-use video editing system. Want to see that cut in black and white? Click click boom. Slow motion? Add in an extra click. Match footage to another camera? You can instantly control brightness, contrast, and hue, easily rescuing most less-than-perfect footage. Dissolves and cuts slide into place and are immediately viewable, completely adjustable, and can even be copied from place to place. Feel like reversing the motion to match another shot? This effect does have to "render", but a few seconds later, it's done.
Advanced users will appreciate the easy-to-use A/B roll capability (optional software). While not essential, it can provide the average home user with the ability to edit using two tapes shot at the same time from different angles, dissolving or cutting back and forth between the shots.
Screenplay also offers picture-in-picture, stepped motion, inverse black and white, various solarization filters, and sepia tones. It's more than sufficient for creating slick family videos and feeds the secret "But I really want to direct!" spirit hidden deep within many Home Theater aficionados.
Another plus: All video clips are available to use in several simultaneous projects. Most other editing systems don't allow this easy file-sharing. If you're customizing different videos and want to reuse some footage from another project, it's a snap to do so.
From hook-up to video capture and on to my first "meaningful" edit - something likely to stay in the final project - was less than an hour. Frankly, I've had VCRs which took me longer to set up.
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