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Linear Video Editing Software for Mac?
Vilorman asks: "Everyone knows that there is tons of linear video editing hardware out for Windows and Mac. There is even quite a bit of stand alone linear editing software for Windows. There are all of these Firewire DV input/output boxes on the market but where is the software for them? We've got Final Cut Pro HD and DVD Studio for the Mac but that's all non-linear. Where's the linear stuff? I want to be able to take live video into my Mac and superimpose text over video or images over video and then send it right back out using the standard Firewire video I/O box that I already have; but I want to do it live on the fly, not in post-production where I have to ingest an hours worth of video and then print it back to tape. I know it can be done but where is the software for making it happen?"
I think your confused on what linear vs. non-linear editing is.
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What your asking for is on-the-fly editing.
Well it's not Mac and it's not using Firewire, but it is digital.
Compix Media produces boards and computers that allow real time keying (with alpha) of graphics or text. The software is pretty easy to use and allows crawls, scrolls, and regular animation of pages. The higher end versions use SDI (Serial Digital Interface) for video i/o, while the cheaper versions use s-video and composite video (BNC) connectors.
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A Chyron character generator is probably the best way to superimpose text in real time.
Snag an amiga video toaster / flyer or try open video toaster.
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The best Mac live-video-switching-with-effects product I've heard of is VDMX.
You want this although you're probably not willing to pay for it.
I'm not sure if VideoScript will generate NTSC output to DV. Probably not, but if so, it's a cheap alternative.If you're ultra-low budget, dig into the QuickTime docs. It's not tremendously hard to write a C app that pulls a live DV stream and adds some QT text or effect tracks.
You're looking to genloc stuff, not editing!!
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.....though, you would have to record the video to disk. Vara Software offers this pretty neat application for OS X called WireCast. Giving it a brief once over, it appears that you can do exactly what you are asking and perhaps some extra eye-candy for your users. Check it out and see what you think.
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With on-the-fly genlocked effects. Two completely different things.
Linear editing is post-production editing, without the ability to randomly access a shot. In other words, you must hand cue up each shot then do an assemble edit. Non-linear editing is where the machine is smart enough to find your edit point from an edit list. Both terms come from tape editing, which is pretty much obsolete.
"Eve of Destruction", it's not just for old hippies anymore...
... I believe, is what you're looking for.
http://www.digitalstage.net/en/
From the website:
" This software gives you a major function that mixes the 2 visuals into 1 visual for your live visual performance. You can add visual effetcs and texts as you need. Also, you can easily organize the video files and send the video source diretcly from your computer."
BTW this has nothing to do with linear editing (which is what iMovie does, and is basically a fancy way of editing by hooking two VCRs together and using the pause button) and nonlinear editing (Final Cut's "batch" system, which is far superior.)
Avid provide a good solution but it's not free software...
It do all the real time stuff and more...
I ordered the demo cd for my bro (who is filmmaker) and it seems to be a pretty good software.
You will need probably some extra hardware and the price for avid xpress pro is ~1700$
what you requested, real time text overlay, would be especially easy.
if you're into effects and whatnot as well maybe try out Auvi as an addition to Jitter. good luck!
What you're looking for is variously called "video mixer," "live switcher," and "video switcher."
These are hardware devices, although it can be done in software. At the bottom-end they start around $500-$1000 and work on up to however much yo' mamma's house is worth, and much more.
B+H Photo is one place to start looking.
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What is this linear editing you speak of?
If what you want is on the fly keying of text, and switching to do dissolves, cuts, inserts, basic composites, etc. then look for an analog keyer/switcher and a character generator to interface with the keyer.
It makes no sense to want these things in a post-production environment over a digital non-linear editing system with a software based titler (like Livetype)... unless your interest is exclusively in live broadcasts.
The reason is quite simple.. whereas the keyer/switcher provides immediate response, the NLE provides unmatched flexibility, scalability and allows you to plan, storyboard, execute and correct your edits. Trying to do live keying/switching for what will ultimately be a taped program or go to DVD doesn't make much sense, IMO.
Why? Because whatever time you gain in immediacy, you lose in accuracy of your timing. Then you have to go back and correct, over and over again... and it's not easy unless you're a keying/switching expert... and even then, if you've mastered a keying/switching system, most NLEs do so much realtime rendering these days that you should be equally capable of quickly adapting to and using such systems.
If you aren't proficient in using NLEs for keying, switching and compositing, then you are presumably a hobbyist... or an editor without marketable skills. The time you spend trying to sharpen your live keying/switching abilities, you could be mastering the NLEs that are cheaper, actually easier to use, more agile and (if you're semi-pro or professional) will keep you employed.
Furthermore, it still takes an enormous amount of time to output to tape when doing linear editing. You forget that you still have to manually scrub, and dub in realtime... In non-linear editing systems, you won't be waiting for the VTR to physically reach each clip you're searching/scrubbing in your raw footage any time after the initial full-res capture. In linear systems, you'll have to deal with this every single time you scrub and execute an edit.
Every time you redo an edit in a linear system, you have to redub the entire edit, all the keying, switching and compositing in that edit playing back all sources in real-time in order to re-record the cahnges... rather than making a few corrections and re-rendering in a fraction of the time.
Add it all up, and a proficient NLE editor can do a Non-linear edit in a fraction of the time... and Non-linear edits are non-destructive.
Lastly, you can speed up the process even more by doing off-line non-linear editing. By using off-line, low-res thumbnails, or the default off-line inserts from batch logging (e.g. in Final Cut Pro), you are working all your edits, transitions, composites, keys, titles, etc. first in either low-res or with totally off-line clips.
Once all your edit decisions are finished, the computer only needs to batch capture the clips you've logged ONCE rather than repeatedly switching tapes, scrubbing and playing back through the loads of raw footage, to execute every single edit (especially nightmarish if you're going to break up and frequently insert pieces of or entire clips repeatedly in various places throughout the video). Screw up an edit on an NLE, and all you have to do is nudge your captured clip... rather than re-record.
It takes most people a few minutes to figure out how to maximize their work productivity from the benefit of logging and batch capturing in an NLE. The time you spend striping, indexing tapes and logging, and capturing, will be well-invested... instead of spending ten tim
You can use a Matrox RTMac PCI card, and output it to whatever you want. But as has been mentioned elsewhere, you are really looking for something else, you just don't know it.
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I suggest that you look into Live Channel Pro from Channel Storm: http://www.channelstorm.com/.
best stuff i've seen for this type of work is either with max/jitter or my favortie, max/nato
good luck
Doesn't apple's motion fill this niche? It allows you to add text and graphics to real time video IIRC- it's not free, but it's great obviously apple friendly software.
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Linear video editing works only in hardware:
2+ decks and a bunch of cables (and a lot of patience).
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PS Oh, I have no idea but with Tiger and CoreVideo coming soon-ish it should be fun
There are cute little hacks that allow you to display fun things like caller id and weather on your tivo. Why not hack up the scripts (tcl, I think) to display whatever it is you are looking for. Then you can just broadcast/record from the tivo's video out ports.
Disclaimer: I've never done this.
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It was really amazing.
From a geeky point of view, it was exceptionally cool - in a nutshell: you create a scene which contains your video (or cam) in a place in 3D space. Then you create another scene and maybe have the video or cam somewhere else. Then when you're broadcasting, you just click between the two scenes and the video flys between positions. Hard to describe, but really cool to actually see in action. They were showing 3 cameras plugged in and scenes with 3 cameras in different places on screen and all three would fly around when you clicked between those scenes.
They showed other types of transitions, but that one with stuff flying around was what really caught my eye-candy eye.
Of course, in real life, you'd probably just broadcast a camera with a title, but hey, that's not what appeals to the geek in me.
Back on topic: I suppose it would do what the original poster wanted, but i've not used it yet; just saw me some demo!
you want Vj software. Others have suggested VDMX, but also have a look at www.vjcentral.com. They have reviews of a ton of
other VJ tools. Most of them can superimpose text or any arbitary clip over a live feed.
I do this kind of thing all the time at my VJ gigs performing live with a Tibook.
We use one of those Amiga 2000. It worked perfect for us in our VBP class.
Keep your eye on EvoCam and their web cam tool. It can do quite a bit of on the fly rendering and can do Alpha channels.Graphics and text are easy to configure If you are creating output for the web, this can't be beat http://www.evological.com/evocam.html
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tools_tips/broadcas ting.html
http://www.megaseg.com/
MegaSeg
MegaSeg is a live audio and video automation system created to mix your QuickTime or MP3 media in a manner similar to radio and TV stations. Set custom cue-in and end times for media, perform a segue between the media preventing "dead air."
http://www.channelstorm.com/
Live Channel
Live Channel transforms the Mac into a production and broadcasting TV studio. You can process video and audio in real-time and produce live programs and broadcast them on any network. Includes support for multiple live video and audio sources, recorded clips, still images, graphics and text.
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You should be able to do what you want with various VJ soft.
This guy did a cool survey recently, it's not only mac but it's rather complete and clear:
http://www.octapod.org/jeanpoole/archives/000821.
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What about Media 100i ?
http://www.media100.com/Media100i.asp
have a look at max msp jitter, it is realtime if you want... dont know if thats what you are looking for.
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This practice was developed because the equipment used for the online was incredible expensive, while the equipment for offline editing was relatively cheap. You don't want to do your creative decision making on a $2 Million machine (with corresponding high rental rates) when you can accomplish the same on $10,000 - 20,000 system, and spit out an EDL.
When the Avid first came along, it went against this model, as it was more expensive then linear offline systems. However, it made editors much more productive (and it was still cheaper than the online systems of the day), so it did represent a total cost savings.
I know what you meant by "rough edit" stage, but it's really not the correct phrase. I can't think of a better one, other than "the offline". Maybe just the creative part of the editing process.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
Are there any programs, prefereably for free, that will allow you to overlay live video on previously recorded video?
Essentially I'm recording an actors movement on one side of the screen. I'll then capture that video on to the computer. I would then like to playback that captured video with a live video overlay. I'll then have the actor move accordingly as to not block his previous self.
I'm not looking for real time green screening or anything like that...just playing two videos on top of each other, one realtime the other previously captured. I'll do all the fancy compositing in after effects after I get good footage.
Just get a chroma/blue-screen analog device, and use powerpoint on a mac with two monitors.
One monitor to show the powerpoint application, the other to show the slide output. Now make the background pure blue, and insert text. Split the output from the slide-show screen so you have a composite output, and a vga output. Take the composite output into an analog chroma-key device, and you're set.
Live video processing (and output), keying, delays, text gen, variable resolutions. Somewhat similar to Jitter, but much easier to learn, and a good bit less expensive.