8 Video Apps Categories to Explore so You Can Master Your Craft in Video Processing
Film makers and marketers alike love making videos. Thanks to the developers of video apps, those professionals can now enhance the quality of both films and marketing video clips in just a few button clicks.
People watching sports via pay-per-view and bloggers capturing scenes of festivals have something in common. To their satisfaction, they like recording and watching those videos on media players over and over again.
Pros, hobbyists, enthusiasts and viral video makers can do a lot of things with videos. The full credit is to the video apps maker.
Curious about those apps? No problem.
In this post, I will walk you through these 8 categories of video apps, which when explored and mastered, can further enhance your knowledge and skills in video processing.
The video apps categories are:
1. Capturing/Recording
These are the apps that will allow you to capture videos from webcam, IP camera, online media, video input device and computer screen direct to your hard drive. An example of this is the Debut Video Capture Software by NCH.
2. Downloading
Want to download videos from YouTube, MySpace or Google Video? Not a problem. The video downloader software can do that for you. This video app works by copying and pasting the URL of the video in the app interface, clicking the download button and bingo! You now have the video ready for watching. Easy Video Downloader is one of these apps.
3. Editing
If you want to have a professional polish of your raw videos, a video editor app is what you need. This app allows you to trim clips to size, add sound tracks, captions or narration, apply special audio effects, create transitions, and enhance the resolution. Windows Movie Maker is capable of doing those stuffs.
4. Playing
There are hundreds of free video apps under this category. You can play movies, clips, music, DVDs, video streams, podcasts and video-on-demand on media players such as VLC, QuickTime, RealPlayer, DivX and FLV.
5. Converting
Can’t watch a video in your mobile device? Probably the video format is not compatible. Convert it to the right format using video file converter. Whether it’s flv, avi, mp4, psp or wmv, there is a video app to convert that. Why not try using FVD Suite or ConvertXtoDVD?
6. Sharing Online
It’s actually desktop or screen sharing. Whenever you want to share a video during meetings with your boss and colleagues, there is a video app for that; just like the Microsoft Lync.
7. Streaming
You’re not the one to watch a live-stream. You’re the one to broadcast or stream your video. Yes. That’s possible. Explore the capability of USTREAM Producer for desktop and you’ll see what I’m saying.
8. Film Making
These apps function almost similar to video editors, except for one thing; they are intended for creating high quality films. Such video apps usually require technical training and are best suited for professional film makers. Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, Avid and Final Cut Pro are the apps that meet the standards of professional film making.
In this world where digital cameras, camcorders, webcams, CCTVs and smartphones are already part of the Internet of Things, capturing videos and processing them can already be done in an instant. And with the coming of innovative wearables like the GoPro Hero, underwater cameras like the Liquid Image 305 Hydra Series and advanced HD cameras for drones, there’s now a lot of reasons to capture every exciting moment and share it to the world.
More interestingly, there’s also a lot of ways now to make those videos stand out.
