Post Tools

There are hundreds of video postproduction applications on the market. They are designed to work with (or sometimes right inside) your NLE application and provide advanced features and capabilities such as titling and animation. We'll give you an overview of what you can achieve with sound editing and image-finishing tools in this chapter. DVD authoring is covered in Chapter 12.

The software marketplace is chock full of specific programs for very specific tasks. An example is Digital Anarchy's Aurora Sky, which generates astoundingly beautiful synthetic sunsets and cloud banks. But before you go shopping for such specialized tools, consider this emerging standard—“plays well with others.”

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