DIY Video Editor Blog

Zoom Silliness OK this one is my "pet peeve/time to get on my soapbox rant" article for the week. This stuff really annoys me. You see the idea that you are going to achieve this incredible degree of zoom on a consumer camera and that somehow it is awesome is nothing more than a marketing lie. It is the old idea of throwing big meaningless numbers at people knowing full well … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Silly Zoom Marketing, Video Project Tips and Recording a Mobile Device

Getting Comfy in Front of the CameraOne of the great barriers many people find in creating video content is how to get it done without doing it yourself!Why?Because most people feel totally uncomfortable appearing in front of the camera in a presentation setting and let's face it, most people aren't even up to doing voice-overs for their own projects.Of course … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Feeling Comfortable on Camera, 360 Degree Video and CyberLink Tutorials

Got #Hashtags? For a great many people getting a video shot in a reasonably acceptable manner and then achieving at least a half decent edit to end up with a watchable video is not too hard. In fact these days a lot of people can turn out quite good short videos with relative ease. It's not just that the equipment and software is better, although of course it is, its that the … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Using Hashtags, Screen Recording Tips and YouTube Analytics

Video Presentation Design If you are at all into making demonstration or tutorial type videos one of the best ways to do that is by creating a PowerPoint style presentation and then dubbing a voice track over it. Once created you can then use screen recording software like Camtasia to convert the whole thing into a video. Although that sounds simple enough there are a few ways … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Stroller Dolly’s, Presentation Tips and Background Music

Return of the Rotoscope Let's talk about rotoscope... anyone? OK, rotoscope is a technology that nearly all good video editors at the top of the consumer level editing food chain will have in some form or another. Some will have it as a separate module within the main interface of the software and some will have it as part of a filters package. So what is it? Rotoscope is a … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Gear Obsession, Rotoscoping and Success on Vimeo