DIY Video Editor Blog

How I would Learn Video Editing (If I had to start over)The beginning of this video makes a very important point that I think we all tend to lose track of.You see when I first started to delve into video editing it was at a time when consumer level video and the editing of those files was very, very limited.The resources available at that time were few and far … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Learning Video Editing and Video Podcasts

TikTok is Getting Banned?…maybeWell I guess the biggest political/technical/corporate/national security issue on the radar in the world of video right now is TikTok.The question is whether or not the U.S. Government will be carrying out their threatened ban on TikTok or Bytedance the company that own and run TikTok.For me personally I don't really care! I don't use … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – TikTok Ban and YouTube Channel Names

Portable SSD NAS, UPS, Card Reader, RAID… Too good to be true?If you are making videos these days on any sort of regular basis then you will be well aware of the fact that it doesn't take long before backup and storage becomes an issue.I know from my own experience shooting exclusively in 4k that a One Terabyte backup drive is certainly not what it used to be!Back … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Backups and New Nvidia Graphics Cards

Best AI Music Generator For YouTube Videos (Suno AI Music Review!)There are a number of boring repetitive tasks that come packaged under the overall job of video editing.For me personally the king of "just grinding it out" is searching for appropriate music for a video project.The reason for that is that you have to actually enter a search term or genre type or … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – A.I. Music Generators and Color Correction

Amazing Effects in Classic Films - How Did They Pull It Off?This is a semi regular feature over on the Film Riot YouTube channel that I always look forward to.The concept is they take a bunch of special effects from back in the day which were at the time absolutely state of the art.Then they deconstruct each one explaining exactly how the effects were pulled … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Practical Effects and Editing with Descript