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How to Build an Editing PC for Remote Work (on a Budget)

There are a lot of good options for building a nice budget computer for editing. Depending on how much performance you want, there are great part guides online for every person. You will most likely want an AMD Ryzen CPU since they are the best bang for multitasking CPU on the market. AMD is also great because the Motherboards tend to be less expensive. If you need to, you can … [Read more...] about How to Build an Editing PC for Remote Work (on a Budget)

How to Create Your Own Cooking Videos at Home

Figure out what kind of cooking video you want to make. Plan out everything before hand. Make sure you have the ingredients ready. Write out some voice lines. You can use two camera angles for up close shots. Put some B roll footage when you post process just to spice up the ambience in your video. You can use some from free websites on the internet. Find some free music online … [Read more...] about How to Create Your Own Cooking Videos at Home

How to Cut Smoother Dialogue Using Room Tone & Ambience

Having clear-sounding dialogue is important, so you should make sure that your dialogue sounds good while you're editing. Poor-quality audio can take your audience right out of the story that you're trying to tell. One way to make sure you have good dialogue is to use ambient noise to smooth out your editing process. You should find a good example of room tone in your clip and … [Read more...] about How to Cut Smoother Dialogue Using Room Tone & Ambience

Audio Optimization & Design for Extreme Sports Videos

Having intense and impressive footage for your project is good, but many times it is ruined by the sound chosen to accompany it. The best rule is to make sure there is no audio of bad quality left, and to replace all natural audio with a music track when possible. Here is how to make sure that your audio is good, and what else you should avoid. You should be knowledgeable about … [Read more...] about Audio Optimization & Design for Extreme Sports Videos

A Beginner’s Guide to Shooting Coverage for a Film Project

Coverage of your characters in a movie film can be a hard challenge to tackle. Getting all the characters in one shot can be one way of doing this. The movie Bird Man famously did a one take that handled the choreography of the characters very well. For most movie producers, handling the coverage of the actors faces is going to take multiple takes. A lot of time will be spent … [Read more...] about A Beginner’s Guide to Shooting Coverage for a Film Project

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