hardware_software

Hardware/Software
For digital video productions, you will need a digital video recorder, with all of its peripherals including a fully charged battery and back-up battery. You will need the videotape, or tapes, necessary for filming. You will also need a microphone and possibly headphones for yourself to be able to hear the information that is going into your video production.
Your computer system will need a capture device, a fast hard drive, and be finely tuned in order to manage the video editing. Systems for managing digital video consist of an input or capture device, lots of storage and an output device, such as a VCR, which could then be captured for displaying on the TV or the Web.

Suggested minimum requirements
PC

PenIII, PenIV
Ram 256

MAC
G3-G4

External drive

Firewire

400

800

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7200rpm

IBM Desktop

USB 2.0

System resources as 80% or above

Shut down everything but video software

Close all unnecessary TSR's

No Screensaver running

No Desktop patterns/themes

Clean up files on harddrive
Defrag harddrive

Ports, Plugs and All That plus Guidelines for MAC and PC
http://www.computerlearning.org/articles/DVTech.htm

Software
Digital video software that you might want to have on hand, depending on your computer system, can include such products as:

MGI VideoWave
http://www.mgisoft.com
VideoWave Manual

MovieWorks
http://www.movieworks.com/

Adobe Premiere Tutorials
http://www.digitaleditor.com/tutorials/
http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/main.html
A nice variety of online lessons to help you make the most of Adobe Premiere.

iMovie Tutorials
http://www.apple.com/imovie/gettingstarted/
Apple lessons that detail how easy it is to take off with using digital video at home and school.

Lights Camera Action
http://www.sel.sony.com/clubvaio/tutorial/barker2/index.html
Contains a link to tutorials from Sony related to the Club VAIO, ideas for making "video masterpieces."

Final Cut
http://www.apple.com/finalcutpro/techspecs/compeffects.html%20final%20cut