DIY Video Editor Blog

I would hope it is pretty obvious that this site is not really aimed at professional video editors or for those who are looking for commercial video marketing strategies. However to totally discount the commercial aspect of producing video would be to ignore a whole owrld of tips and techniques that can cross over into many other areas of interest. Let's face it. As soon as you … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Video Marketing and Building a Home Video Studio

Not a lot of particularly interesting news from around the traps this week so I thought I would cover a particular editing technique in a little more detail. One of the most (over?) used types of cuts employed by amateur editors these days is the jump cut. Although when I say that there are a lot of people who think they are using jump cuts when in fact they are not. So what is … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – It’s All About the Jump Cuts

Getting it Right on YouTube Well it seems that through no effort of my own this weeks appears to be all about YouTube! One aspect of uploading video to YouTube that is most often overlooked is that of optimizing the text fields around that video for maximum effect. Because this activity falls under the title of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) many people simply ignore it or do … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Its All About the YouTube

Video InterviewsMy guess is that most people that visit this site are much like me in the both the way they shoot and edit video and also the type of projects they are creating.By this I don't mean they are churning out rubbish on a daily basis but that I think most people are shooting family or social events in some form or another and are not engaged in the actual … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Shooting an Interview and Media Suite 12

OK lots to cover this week! First up there is some stuff on Color Grading as opposed to Color Correction and all the way at the bottom I found few very good videos explaining the three point system for lighting video... enjoy! Color Grading Probably the biggest news this year in the consumer video editing software market has been the introduction of color grading. This has … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Color Grading, Polarizing and Three Point Lighting