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How to Create Foley Just briefly, Foley is the art of recreating sounds in a studio to be used later as part of a video or movie sound track. From Wikipedia: Foley is the reproduction of everyday sound effects that are added to films, videos, and other media in post-production to enhance audio quality. When you see a western movie and hear the horses walking across the ground, … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – D.I.Y Foley, Match Cuts and YouTube Tips

Keep Your Edits Classy - Tips For New Editors Generally speaking Casey Faris makes almost all of his content from the perspective of using DaVinci Resolve. This one is a little different in that although he demonstrates what he is talking about in Resolve the actual subject of the video is the act of editing itself. In other words what he is showing is truly universal and has … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Editing Classy, Adding Depth and Teleprompters

My Secret for Making Better Videos Well, they say the devil is in the details and although I am not quite sure who "they" are or whether it has anything to do with the devil... the details do count. A common complaint I see from amateur video makers is that they have trouble lifting their projects to the level of some they see online. They tend to think in terms of needing … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Video Editing Secret Sauce and Cinematic Tips

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 … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Daily Vlogging, Natural Light and Analytics

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 the … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – VideoStudio 2021, Act Naturally and Camera Angles