Technology and Innovation

Windows-based Apps
There are many different editing software titles for cutting HD, but all of them recommend using either a proprietary intermediate codec or a plug-in, like the one from CineForm, for editing HD.
Sony Vegas
One of the more popular Windows editing programs, Vegas provides a streamlined way of editing all flavors of HD and other video formats. Cutting in native HDV isn’t a problem, though many editors prefer using an intermediate codec.
Use CineForm’s HD1 to edit more smoothly, and output back to tape in native HDV. If you have an older system, you can use a proxy editor, like the one from VASST called Gearshift, which is similar to Lumiere HD.

Apple and Windows
Avid
Avid released its latest version of Xpress for Apple and Windows editors, which allows the use of cutting in native HDV, and mixing other videol formats, like Final Cut Pro. Avid has an excellent! intermediate codec, which allows for smooth editing and playback.
Adobe
In January, Adobe announced that its Premiere Pro software would be returning to Apple compul ers with Intel chips, after a four-year hiatus.
Though Premiere Pro can support native m2t editing, it’s highly recommended you capture us-l ing the CineForm intermediate codec (which Cind] form calls a Compressed Digital Intermediate), available for Windows and then cut in uncompressed HD. Ensure you have enough disk space,] as one hour of HD can be anywhere from 40 to 6 gigabytes vs. 13GB for one hour of HDV footage.
The Matrox RT.X2 is an input/output card that provides real-time HDV, HD, and standard definitioi (SD) video capture, but also uses an intermediate col dec to help keeps things running smoothly. It corns] with a copy of Adobe Premiere Pro for Windows.