Editing

We can edit your film or video to specification and output to DVD or video tape. We use an Avid Technology D-1 resolution non-linear editing system—an important consideration because of its reliability and efficiency. If you work with computers, you know how easy work can get lost or jumbled up. We don’t have those problems with the Avid.

The most cost effective way to edit film or video—be it your old home movies, a month long trip to Africa, or several years worth of holiday home videos—also gives you the most control. We digitize your footage and make a VHS copy with a time clock inserted into the picture. Watch this copy and write down the clock numbers where the final version of your movies will start and stop, so only the footage you want gets included. You can also tell us where to insert titles and if you want the picture to fade, cut or dissolve. You can be a regular Steven Spielberg from the comfort of your own living room. This method makes it possible to edit through hours of footage very affordably. You can even do a fine cut after seeing the first edited version, if you’d like.

We can also edit your footage from general instructions like “cut right before Aunt Tillie drops the cake on Uncle Pat,” but this is a more time consuming/expensive way to go, and not as precise.

Another method is to have us take your footage and create a story through the editing process. The finished product is very cool! Rather than merely paring down the length, we are juxtaposing and creating an aesthetic arrangement, a gestalt, if you will. The clients we have done this for are exceptionally happy with the results, but it is by far the most expensive because we have to become familiar with all your footage and build our story from the ground up. Depending on the amount of footage, it’ll cost at least five or ten times more than you going through and selecting the footage yourself as in the first method above—but then again, you don’t have to do any of the work!