Video Editing Software made easy…ish
How to Edit Daily Vlogs
You may not be going quite as crazy as trying to deliver a daily blog… or maybe you are!
Anyway the value in the video below is not so much about that but the process of having to turn out content on a regular basis.
Doing that can get very tedious very fast!
The key to it is reducing the majority of the actions necessary down to a repeatable…
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The Womble MPEG Video Wizard DVD version is strictly an MPEG editor with DVD authoring and full Dolby (AC-3) encoder support.
It was originally developed in the early days of MPEG2 editing hitting the mainstream especially when video camcorders were moving away from dv.avi files and into the new MPEG2 format.
At that time editing MPEG2 files or any of the newer highly…
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What’s New in VideoStudio 2021
Just released this week was the annual full upgrade to Corel VideoStudio Pro 2021.
As is usually the case I will be updating my review of the program in the coming weeks.
On the face of it this version is not a huge leap forward as far as new features go but to be honest these days I kind of dread those ones!
I much prefer the ones where…
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Before we get into all the rules and regulations of video composition there is an important point to keep in mind here.
Most of the rules of composition for video are exactly the same as those for still image photography.
The reason for this is that video is just a progressive sequence of still images being displayed at a speed that mimics real life and creates the illusion…
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5 Video Mistakes & How to Fix Them in Post
When you live in a world of “point and shoot” and are trapped most of the time in the auto settings of your camera, there are some errors you will regularly see.
Things like white balance, exposure problems, audio disasters… the list goes on!
Anyway, even though it is terrible practice to work with the idea that you can…
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Camera shots are defined and named by the degree of closeness there is in the shot to the subject of that shot, the degree to which the subject “fills” the shot or the angle from which the shot is taken.
It can also be defined by the movement of the camera as the shot is being taken.
Rather than getting too crazy technical here let’s just confine ourselves to the three…
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So first of all this week my apologies for missing last week’s Friday Roundup.
Every year here in Taiwan where I live we of course have the Lunar New Year celebrations.
The actual date of those celebrations changes from year to year because it is all aligned with the Moon and not my usual calendar!
This year I was totally caught out and missed posting time…
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There is a style (if you can call it that) of shooting video that closely resembles a three year old watering the garden with a hose.
I don’t know if this “style” has a name or not but if you can imagine a three year old watering the garden with a hose… I think you would get the picture!
One could argue that at the end of the exercise all (or most) parts of the garden …
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The ability to edit what you shoot and have it come out making sense requires you to think about how your shots will be combined together before you take them.
That doesn’t mean that every single edit needs to be meticulously planned in advance, but it does require that you have a sense of what shots you’ll need later when you sit down at the computer.
In the spirit of…
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5 Tips to Edit Videos Faster and Easier
Some good tips here on a sensible workflow for more efficient editing.
Of course there are many variations on the theme of editing workflows but there is one thing that will really get you going faster.
Do all the time consuming steps first, then get into the editing.
By that I mean the organization steps and finding assets you…
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