Learn How To Edit Your HD Video

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Trying to edit a HD video from camcorders like the Sony HDR-HC1 can sometimes turn into a nightmare. The fact is that a HD video contains about four times the number of pixels that a normal standard definition offers, and it is very much compressed.

It is important to bear in mind that you do need a very powerful computer that comes with a lot of memory to be able to handle the extra data and compression. Taking Pinnacle as an example, it recommends using at least 512 MB of RAM and a graphics card with 128 MB of RAM for standard resolution video. However if you re working with a 1080i HD video, this increases to a GB of RAM and a 256 MB graphics card.

There are many softwares that is available that supports the editing of HD videos. Taking teh latest versions of Pinnacle Studio and Ulead Media Studio 8 as an example, these have import function and to edit files in HDV format. Although the HD video looks great when your play it on your HDTV, presently you are not able to  store HD video on a standard DVD. You could however store HD video for playback on your PC.

Fortunately there is now a new generation of HD optical media format using HD-DVD and Blue Ray Burners disc formats which have gained much popularity among people especially the younger generation. They are relatively more expensive though and the price is not expected to decrease so soon because of the good demand.

HD-DVD players usually cost at least $500, and will be soon be available to the public. However you will need a new HD-DVD drive to write to the disc. Again the drive is expensive and so are the Blue-ray disc, and it looks like the price is not coming down in the near future.

You may like to know that there is another available option. You can purchase a DVD player from KISS, the DP-600, and use it to play back HD files, compressed to Microsoft's Windows Media 9 format. This is a temporary alternative until the price of the HD-DVD and Blue-ray disc players more or less stabilises to a more affordable amount.