DIY Video Editor Blog

The Friday Roundup – Buster Keaton, Fire Tornados and YouTube Translations

What We Learned from a Master I noticed this video doing the rounds this week and even though it was…

The Friday Roundup – Action Cam Videos, a Guide to Cinematography, Easing In and Out

Closed Caption Files In the post linked below from Techsmith they go into quite some detail on the subject of…

The Friday Roundup – LUTs Explained, Virtual Reality and Action Cam Videos

YouTube Goes 360 Degree VR! Boy! YouTube or should I say Google really took a huge dump on a few…

The Friday Roundup – Teleprompters, YouTube Dreams, New Gadgets and Shutter Speeds

Teleprompter (Autocue) Basics One of the most difficult parts of creating a video project that involves some kind of on-camera…

The Friday Roundup – Free Images, New iPhone Video for Bentley and Sensors

Some New Free Image Sources If you are anything like me you are probably on a constant hunt for free…

The Friday Roundup – Birdman Secrets, YouTube Red and 360 Cams

Birdman Secret Edits This is probably one of my favorite movies from the recent past for a number of reasons.…

The Friday Roundup – Focus Tips, Medium Shot Framing and a YouTube Update

Manual and Remote Focus One of the downsides to the fact that just about all video being recorded these days…

The Friday Roundup – Editing Cuts, YouTube mistakes and Video Lighting

The First Cut is the Deepest One of the points I try to make in both referring to editing tutorials…

The Friday Roundup – Horizontal Shooting and the Smartphones Are Coming

Smart Phones Getting Better at Video OK then! I guess we should all start to begin thinking in terms of…

The Friday Roundup – REALLY Learning from the Experts and Transitions

The Key to Really Learning Video I ran across this video from the Basic Filmmaker this week and initially thought…