SoftwareBy Nathan Brown

EditingHaving captured my shots on the DSLR camera Nike 3500 they were large files with high quality finish, this meant I was in need of a software that could handle and maintain both of these details. So, I chose the semi-professional software “Sony Vegas Pro 13”, its not a simple program to use but I have previous experience with it and there are plenty of YouTube tutorials if I get stuck. Sony Vegas allows me to do anything and everything I want, whether its adding a retro overlay or reversing a clip it can be done. Whereas software like Windows Movie Maker can’t even have two audio layers making it impossible to have a voice over and music playing at the same time which is a major convention of teaser trailers.

Originally developed as an audio editor, it eventually developed into an NLE for video and audio from version 2.0. Vegas features real-time multitrack video and audio editing on unlimited tracks, resolution-independent video sequencing, complex effects and compositing tools, 24-bit/192 kHz audio support, VST and DirectX plug-in effect support, and Dolby Digital surround sound mixing.

Vegas doesn’t require anything external and will work with any microphone or recording software and doesn’t need any other software like Adobe Flash to work. However, extension can be downloaded to only improve the already extensive assortment of overlays and editing pre-sets that come with it.

Audacity is a free open source digital audio editor and recording computer software application, available for Windows, OS X, Linux and other operating systems. Audacity was started in the fall of 1999 by Dominic Mazzoni and Roger Dannenberg at Carnegie Mellon University and was released on May 28, 2000 as version 0.8. As of October 10, 2011, it was the 11th most popular download from SourceForge, with 76.5 million downloads. In addition to recording audio from multiple sources, Audacity can be used for post-processing of all types of audio, including podcasts by adding effects such as normalization, trimming, and fading in and out.

Because my teaser trailer will have a voice over (done by myself) I needed software that I could capture high quality audio with. Audacity is a free voice recording software that is easy to use, it allowed me to edit the audio by cutting and adding silence or echo to my voice over. I used a blue snowball microphone to record the audio through. The blue snowball is an industry grade microphone for an affordable price.