Everything You Need to Know About HDR Video, Part 1: The Basics As a newcomer to creating your own videos or even as an intermediate user, you will often come across terminology is unfamiliar. More often than not subjects like these are presented in a way that may make you…
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Source: Deposit Photos The gap between an amateur looking YouTube video and a professional one isn’t usually about expensive gear or advanced techniques. It’s about a handful of decisions, made consistently, that add up to something that feels polished and very one of those decisions is learnable.…
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Source: Deposit Photos How to Create Talking Head Videos People Actually Watch Talking head videos are very common on social media these days but that doesn’t necessarily means any old video like that is going to succeed. Let’s face it, visually they are not exactly brimming with…
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Source: Deposit Photos This is a question I get quite a lot on this site and I see it appear over and over on user forums and other video editing discussion sites. The bottom line is that the person feels that they have spent hours editing a…
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Source: Deposit Photos How to Actually “Just Start” One of the most common things you will see in tutorial videos is the “just do it” or “just start” mantra. Of all of the handy tutorial catchphrases, those ones can be the most frustrating because if you could…
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If you have been reading this blog for any amount of time you may be aware that I moved from strictly editing videos to shooting them as well a few years back. The reason for that evolution was that my wife started her own content creation for…
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Image Source: Deposit Photos How to Use an Effect as a Transition and Combine Effects in PowerDirector My favorite line in this tutorial is that you don’t need a transition (noun) to transition (verb)! One of the problems with video editing terminology is that very often it…
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