Post Production

The Canopus DV Station

By Doug Graham The DV Station by Canopus is a turnkey DV editing system, based on a portable PC from Mitac and the Canopus DV Raptor capture and editing card. It comes fully equipped with a good selection of both hardware and software, and is literally ready to edit...

Bit Rate Calculator

by Steven Hacker 600 divided by the number of minutes. Then subtract 1.6 if you are using PCM audio or .2 if you are using AC3 audio. For example- if your video is 75 minutes: 600/75-1.6= 6.4 or 6400 kbits/sec (PCM audio) 600/75-.2= 7.8 or 7800 kbits/sec (AC3 audio)...