MovieShaker is a
video editing program for
Microsoft Windows
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made by
Sony
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. The newest version of MovieShaker, released in 2002, is 3.3.3.
Compared to other video editing programs that are available, MovieShaker is strictly low-tech. However, MovieShaker is required for capturing video from Sony
MicroMV
MicroMV is a proprietary videotape format introduced in October 2001 by Sony. It is the smallest videotape format — 70% smaller than MiniDV or about the size of two US quarter coins; it is also smaller than a Digital8 or DV cassette and s ...
tapes in order to assure proper
audio/video synchronization. In this case, the normal procedure would be to use MovieShaker for video capturing and then export the captured video as an
MPEG
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file, which would then be suitable for further editing by other more sophisticated programs.
Sony states that MovieShaker requires a pre-installation of
Apple
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QuickTime
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5.0 or higher. However, an upgrade beyond Version 3.3 has yet to be released. Therefore, future compatibility with newer versions of QuickTime cannot be assured. In particular, it is possible that the MovieShaker user may begin to experience audio capture difficulty with an installation of QuickTime 7.0.
An alternative is to use MovieShaker to capture the video from Sony MicroMV tapes and save them to your hard disk as .MMV video files. These can then be converted by other utilities, such as MPEG Streamclip or mmv2mpg, a small utility to convert raw MMV files. Since MMV files use the
MPEG-2
MPEG-2 (a.k.a. H.222/H.262 as was defined by the ITU) is a standard for "the generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information". It describes a combination of lossy video compression and lossy audio data compression methods ...
format, Apple's MPEG-2 Playback Component (commercial) or Quicktime Alternative] (freeware) must also be installed for MPEG-2 support.
Pinnacle Studio
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(versions 8 through 10) and
Canopus
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ProCoder (rename the MMV extension to TS) can also open MMV files, and convert them into more convenient formats.
All Sony Vaio computers used to come pre-installed with this video editing software. This streamlines the editing process from a Sony Camera, because it uses a more direct firewire connection.
References
External links
MovieShaker Software Tutorial from Sony
Video editing software
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