More How-to Advice: The Basics of Digital Video Capture

For those not afraid of a little geek-speak, Tom’s Hardware Guide has a nice explanation of the issues you need to take into account when building a computer-based video editing system. In Part 1 they break-down and explain why digitizing video requires so much bandwidth and hard drive space, and give an overview of the major codecs (methods) for digitizing video for editing. While pretty techy, this overview makes it clear why the hype around home-video editing is misleading, and why it may not be as easy as an Apple iMac DV commercial makes it seem.