Video Editing Software

DeskShare offers video editing tools that enable the creation of videos with added effects, music, transitions, etc. Among their currently available offerings are:

- Auto Movie Creator allows for the editing of digital movies.

The Assistant Director guides you through the process. Import video from your camera, or use video and audio files stored on your PC. The vendor states that no technical knowledge is required.

To use, you drag the scenes of your movie into the order you want; and add effects, transitions, music and narration. You can use files in multiple video, image, or audio formats. You can also export the video back to any digital video camera.

A Storyboard interface facilitates that addition of a musical score, or narration, or text (for titles and credits) to a scene with drag-and-drop. Auto Movie Creator comes with over 150 visual effects and transitions. You can use the effects to correct common video problems by rotating the image, or adjusting brightness. Further, you can add a wipe or dissolve between scenes, or zooming and panning to emphasize key parts of the image.

- Video Edit Magic is a Windows video editing application. It features a drag-and-drop interface over an editing timeline; to which you can add components such as scene transitions, background music, and title effects. You can edit and combine file formats including AVI, WMV, ASF, MPEG, JPEG and more, all on the same timeline.

Video Edit Magic supports making movies in MPEG Formats. You can also create QuickTime and Digital Video AVI output formats. Movies can be made in both NTSC as well as PAL standard.

Video Edit Magic includes a volume track that is displayed as a volume graph, allowing you to change the volume of audio clips at any point from 0% to 400%. You can create fade-ins, fade-outs, dopler effects, and more.

You can also join, split, crop, trim, modify color, and merge your video files. Video Edit Magic includes more than 150 built-in transitions.

- Video Caster is a streaming media creation tool that allows you to capture, encode, and publish media files online. With it, you can record audio at different sample rates and sound qualities, and create video footage by using a Web cam or by capturing full or partial sections of screens.

The Encoder helps you convert your media files into windows streaming format so that they can be viewed online. Use the Media Publisher to publish your encoded media files to any streaming server; Video Caster will batch encode then FTP all your files to any streaming media server.

Video Caster works with Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista.