You love to cook. Maybe you're a professional chef, or maybe your a devout foodie who gets off on creating the dishes you love to eat. Either way, you can't wait to share your creations, and the creative journey you take arriving at them, online. That's truly great. And while your creativity, passion, expertise, and experience in the kitchen, will take you a fair way along your … [Read more...] about 5 Secret Ingredients of Deliciously Engaging YouTube Cooking Videos
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How to Start a Cut: The 5 “Edit Drivers”
Editing videos requires concentration on important aspects of the media. There are five main drivers, the first being Dialogue. Conversations and visualizations associated with them are critical. Next is narration, which guides a story. After that is music, which sets the tone or establishes the mood in a scene. Next, visuals help add entertaining or meaningful aspects to any … [Read more...] about How to Start a Cut: The 5 “Edit Drivers”
Dialogue Mixing Tips
While video is a medium that relies on visual content primarily, the sound is complementary to the picture and at least as equally important. This especially holds true for dialogues, where clarity of the sound is critical to understanding of the video. Processing the original sound recording is where you can improve the quality, reduce the noise and correct … [Read more...] about Dialogue Mixing Tips
What You Need to Build a Video Editing PC in 2020
Video editing PC's are very useful and fun to build for anybody in the modern world. The best way to get a video editing PC is to build it yourself. There are so many customization options and even a beginner can get started. Mac's are better but generally more expensive because they are pre-built. Building the PC will take some time but will save a lot of cost in the long run … [Read more...] about What You Need to Build a Video Editing PC in 2020
A Guide to Essential Video File Types and Codecs
Video content is the best way to generate engagement on social media, but the technical aspects of video can be challenging for some. The various file types essentially serve as containers for holding videos. The most universal of these are QuickTime (.mov) and MPEG-4 (.mp4). Codec software compresses and decompresses video. Apple ProRes is a codec that works well with .mov … [Read more...] about A Guide to Essential Video File Types and Codecs