why do I work with speededit !

[Jean]

Hi everyone.

I wanted to share with you the joy I'm into right now.

I just opened my professional web-tv like website : www.artchannel.lu
It's an online video blog about culture and art in Luxembourg (small country in center Europe, French speaking :/ sorry)

I've been on it for the past few months and all that you can see on it was made by ....wait for it...wait for it...

Speededit ! ;)

Even if this early speededit version is kind of a beta version, it was the only tool out there that gave me the means to succeed in all aspects and being able to create a workflow compatible with the little time I have to finish a film with my budget.

Videos are shot with the JVC-GYHD cam in HD, edited in speededit 720P, all effects, color correction, logo and alpha compositing, PIP effects, sound mixing are entirely made with speededit. (sound effects & restoration in "audition")

Clips are exported in Xvid 2pass encoding at full resolution (720p) directly by speededit. great quality!
You can see the result on my website because apart from the streaming version there is the "download HD-divx" option available.

Speededit is fast, simple, smart, and when the newtek guys will squash all the bugs that are slowing me down, I know I will edit two times faster, how crazy is that ?

Well, thanks for your attention :) and I hope that you'll like what I've done with speededit.

See you.

[couryhouse]

nice work makes me wish I understood french!

[cgswami]

Neat and clean site, the workflow thingy and multiple output was ONE thing that sold me on this ;)

good site Jean :)

[imagic]

OK here we go...

Two weeks ago I took a leap of faith and ordered SpeedEdit, based on what I read (especially the manual itself) here on Newtek's website. I ordered SpeedEdit intending to edit a 30 minute orientation video for a major hotel/resort... and to do it faster than I could in Vegas 7, which I am very familiar with. Footage was in SD and HDV, plus dozens of animated stills, flowcharts, captions, etc.

So guess what... I delivered the video today, on time. Was SpeedEdit faster? What I will say is this: the efficiencies afforded me by SpeedEdit allowed me to create a better video. Brilliant. Not merely faster, SpeedEdit is like Occam's Razor for video. The good stuff stays, the bad goes, and gorgeous video is easier to make. Seriously, that's how I felt.

How many projects are finished way ahead of schedule? I don't want to charge for fewer hours of editing, rather I want to create a better product on deadline.

There were, of course, problems. I found one definite bug thaat triggered a crash when a clip is deleted, and my wife/partner-in-crime probably found 100 more bugs that she had no time to diagnose/report. Still, I'll take SpeedEdit, version 1 warts and all, over Vegas 7 anytime. Forget about (the joke that is) Premier Pro.

So, even with the learning curve, and some V1.0 instability, SpeedEdit lives up to it's name and then some the first time I used it.

Things I love: Editing spleens in SpeedEdit, Real-Time Slo-Mo effects, applying settings with the Tool Shed, Panning and Zooming in HDV footage. Creating a slide-show in the Storyboard.

I even sprung for a second seat, money I'm happy to give to NewTek. Seriously. If it matures well, SpeedEdit will become as important to me as Photoshop is now.

my website: www.imagicdigital.com

The videos currently on my site were all made with Vegas, starting at version 4. Still Photography remains my primary business.

[smmurph]

Good work Jean, thanks for posting.

Smmurph

[Jean]

Thanks guys :)

Very good work imagic. filming and editing looks really pro ! :thumbsup:

[harlan]

Very nice Jean, thanks for sharing.