D.+Post-Production

__**Post- Production:**__  The quality of your post-production experience depends a lot on the preparations you made during the other two production phases. As the sign to the right reminds us, it doesn't matter how expensive or sophisticated your editing software, if you don't capture high quality audio and video to begin with, its very hard to create a high quality end product. And capturing high quality raw footage depends more on using good technique and paying attention to detail than it does to how expensive your camera is.

There are many different editing software packages available, ranging from free to expensive. A few that you might want to check out that are readily available are: There are quite a few other software programs available which are more powerful and more expensive. For a review of the some of the top rated programs go to this website: []
 * __ Editing Software Possibilities __ **
 * ** Microsoft PhotoStory - ** This free software will not work with full motion video but is a really good, easy to use program for digital storytelling using still images, voice, and music.
 * **Windows MovieMaker -** available free on PCs as part of Microsoft Office- This software is actually fairly powerful for a free tool and works with full motion video, stills, music, graphics, and transitions, One caveat. It is very important with this program to save your project often. The program can crash without warning and you could lose all your hard work up until that point.
 * **Apple I-Movie-** available free on the Mac. Like MovieMaker, this software is pretty powerful considering it is free.
 * **Pinnacle Studio-** There is a free version of this software called Video Spin. The "pay" version is pretty powerful and easy to use. This is the software we use in our media lab here at KET.

A few things to keep in mind when capturing you raw footage that will help you once you reach the editing bay:
 * __ Shooting with Editing in Mind __**
 * 1) 1. keep a notebook with you during the production to keep a log of the main segments of video and audio you capture. Jot down a brief description of these segments. These can really help you keep straight what is in each segment without having to constantly open the files to look at them.
 * 2. shoot pre and post roll. Although the term comes from the days of film and tape production, the main idea is still sound. This means to start recording about 15 seconds to a minute before your talent actually starts speaking or acting. That bit of video with your talent waiting quietly for their cue is called the pre-roll. Likewise, at the end of the video segment don't stop recording immediately after the talent stops acting. Have them sit there for the same amount of time as the pre-roll before hitting the stop button. Having these margins at the beginning and end of your segment makes editing much easier.

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