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CHAPTER 9:
PRODUCING YOUR
MOVIE
The time has finally arrived for you to produce your own movie. After all your hard
work of importing media files into your Library, previewing them, manipulating
them, and applying them to the Storyboard, the production of your grand
masterpiece is imminent. This chapter will cover MPEG-1, MPEG-2, Windows
Media and AVI formatted video types.
Editing and producing MPEG and DV AVI files and clips is what makes
PowerDirector a powerhouse in video editing software applications.
Info: MPEG is an acronym short for the Moving Picture Experts Group which belongs to
the family of ISO/IEC standards (International Organization for Standardization and
International Electrotechnical Commission). It is a compression technology for digital video
and audio signals intended for consumer distribution. Please refer to "What Is MPEG?" on
page 109 for more information.
Many video editing software applications waste valuable time when decompressing
MPEG and DV AVI files into uncompressed AVI format before the editing process.
During editing, this process places unnecessary burden on your hard disk by
requiring a huge amount of disk space when working with uncompressed AVI
format. After it’s all said and done, when you are ready to produce into MPEG or
DV AVI format, valuable time is wasted again in compressing your movie!
Not so with PowerDirector’s proprietary technology, SVRT (Smart Video Rendering
Technology). If your files are originally in MPEG or DV AVI format, editing will be
in the same format and when producing, invaluable time and hard disk space is
preciously saved when only the edited video portions need to be rendered. This is
“smart video rendering”.