Editing Highly Compressed HD Video Files with Ease

posted by Ken Kaplan on November 20, 2008

This week I got to see filmmaker Jacob Rosenberg in video editing action during the Intel Core i7 event at San Francisco's Dogpatch Studios.

For this Bandito Brothers editor, it's all about an efficient workflow, killer HD skateboarding footage and capabilities of his Adobe CS4 matched with the new Intel Core i7 processor he's been testing out courtesy of Intel.  Seeing Rosenberg work his magic was inspiring.

I love shooting with my Sony HDV, but I often switch to SD depending on what my final video will be used for and what other video sources I may want to intertwine.  This can help save me time when editing.

More people are using tapeless High Definition cameras than ever before.  In fact, its seems everything's going HD...even the new Flip ideo camera is touting HD quality with its Flip minoHD.

There are many different HD formats out there to work with, so I was very impressed to hear Rosenberg zero in on how Adobe CS4 and the new Core i7 together really help him edit a variety of HD formats with ease. 

The Bandido Brothers crew prides itself in shooting lots of HD. In an interview with Creativity Online, CEO/CD Mike "Mouse" McCoy says: "we never go out on shoots with less than five cameras."  It certainly can help the editing process when each camera is shooting the same HD format on the same type of drive, but that's not always the case.

Here Rosenberg works with multiple HD video formats quickly in real time in in high quality play back. Fast enough to leave room for his creative juices to flow towards tweaking and matching color the speeding up and slowing down time as professional skate rats zoomed through the air above other skaters rolling earthbound.