How (and why) to Rotate Video OK bear with me cos’ I am going somewhere with this! Let’s face it, rotating a video in just about any modern video editing app could hardly be described as rocket surgery these days so no, I am not that desperate for content this week. The reason I have included a
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The Friday Roundup – Choosing Music, the Glitch Effect and Voiceovers
How to Find Music for Videos One question that I see coming up on a lot of the forums and user groups is the question of choosing the right music for the right video. Too often you will see videos that rely heavily on audio to maintain interest using music that seems in no way connected to the
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The Friday Roundup – Composition, Vegas Discounts and Lens Filters
Earlier this week I sent out an email to everyone on my subscriber list (unusual I know!) alerting them to a couple of good deals going at the moment being offered by Magix. So I thought I would kick off this week by repeating that information in case anyone wanted to take advantage of those
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The Friday Roundup – Vegas Movie Studio Updates and Other Editing Stuff
VEGAS Movie Studio 15 Released So hot on the heels of last week’s announcement from Corel on the update of VideoStudio X10 to VideoStudio 2018 we have one from Magix as well. They have just released their latest version of Vegas Movie Studio 15 which is the second update since Magix acquired the
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The Friday Roundup – Chinese New Year Backlog Edition
Aaand we are back! So last week I set out with all good intentions to issue the usual Friday Roundup. Unfortunately this was all in the face of the impending Chinese New Year break that occurs here in Taiwan where I am located. Probably up until last Tuesday I was looking to be pretty much on
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The Friday Roundup – Cinematic Lighting, Jumps Cuts and Camera Hacks
Cinematic Lighting Techniques One of the current catchphrases that seems to be circling around at the moment is ‘cinematic.’ There has been a lot of talk about adjusting frame rates to shoot more ‘cinematic.,’ applying cinematic LUTs or color adjustments and on and on. Unfortunately this kind of
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The Friday Roundup – Night Shooting, Audio and Split Toning
5 Tips For Filming at Night Given the fact that most people shooting video at the consumer level of the market are going to be doing so on the basis of auto settings in their devices, shooting at night immediately becomes a bit of a problem. There are a bunch of factors working against you in
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The Friday Roundup – Color Matching Cameras, YouTube Updates and Gimbals
Matching Shots in Resolve 14 Camera Matching Tutorial Late last year a few of the usual suspects in the world of consumer level video editing began introducing ‘shot match’ modules into their respective editors. The driving force behind this was that more and more people were putting together
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The Friday Roundup – Editing Work Flows, Hyperlapse and YouTube Tips
Prepare for Hyperlapse! Another post this week on taking your timelapse footage up a notch and turning it into hyperlapse! Ooh! Hyperslapse, it sounds so exciting! Anyway simply put, a hyperlapse is just a time lapse sequence but instead of keeping the camera in a fixed position for the entire
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The Friday Roundup – Storytelling, B-roll and Cinematic Tips
How To Get The Best B-ROLL One of the great advantages we have in living in the digital age of video is that we don;t have to worry too much about the quantity of footage we take. Battery life is always improving and storage media is pretty cheap these days compared to the past. Previously we
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