Software post-editing can achieve powerful special effects and can process the material at any time. Let's take Pinnacle Studio series products as an example to introduce the production method of special effects. First, video material Capturing video is an important step in digital video production, and it is also the premise of editing and making video films. Connect the camera and acquisition card with IEEE 1394 cable. Turn on the camera and set it to play mode. Run "Studio DV", and the editing interface will open after the software is opened. Click the "Capture" button to open the capture interface, which consists of three parts. The photo album in the upper left corner shows the thumbnails of the captured video files. The player in the upper right corner is the video playing window, through which we can see the content and progress of the video we collected in real time, and the time of collection and the number of lost frames are also marked; The camera remote controller in the lower left corner is used to remotely control the camera connected to the computer; The lower right corner is the function area, where all the operations of the acquisition function are located. Before capturing the video capture interface of Pinnacle Studio, you can select the capture mode in the lower right corner ribbon. Among them, DV full-image capture is a high-quality capture, which has the advantages of good image quality and takes up a lot of hard disk space. Full quality capture of MPEG can realize real-time transcoding of MPEG format. It transcodes the video at the same time, and it is already in MPEG format after collection. 2. Click the "Edit" button for the video clip to open the editing interface. There are three display modes in the editing area: storyboard mode, timeline mode and directory mode. Among them, the timeline mode is very professional and can edit frames accurately. It consists of main video track, main audio track, subtitle track, sound track and background music track. To edit, just select the scene we need from the album, hold down the left mouse button, drag it to the main video track, and release the mouse.