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How to Grow on YouTube in 2024 – For Real This Time!There are a lot of tips and tricks on how to get your videos seen on YouTube, possibly go viral and build a channel.The reality is that most of those tips and tricks you see promoted by various people do come into play and can have an effect.However the point that is often ignored or missed is that not all of them … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – YouTube Growth Tips & Software Debugging

Adobe Winning Hearts as Only They Can!Back in 2013 Adobe switched most of its products such as Premiere Pro and After Effects etc. over to a subscription based model.Of course they are perfectly within their rights to move forward on a pricing model as they see fit.However the "dirty" part of that move was that they did not announce this to anyone prior to the … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Adobe at it Again and Some Editing Tips

Audacity AI Tools (Free AI Plugins - OpenVINO)To be honest I can't remember whether I posted this one before or not but due to a recent audio problem I had I thought I'd post it anyway.A few months back(?) Intel released a free set of A.I. audio plugins compatible with Audacity the free digital audio workstation.There are four tools included which are:I don't … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Audacity A.I. and CapCut Tutorial

Audacity's Secret Tool - Spectral Editing MagicOne piece of software that I have used consistently over the years and highly recommend is Audacity.It is a totally free digital audio workstation with pro level tools.Even better than that is that it was taken over by a company called Muse back in 2021 and despite all the user's initial whining, they have really … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Audacity Spectral Editing and Advanced FX

This New Video Editing Style Changes the YouTube GameA trend that a few people have picked up on over the past year or so on YouTube is a style of editing that seems to go against the grain.Up until recently the predominant editing style on social platforms consisted of very, very tight editing of dialogue leaving absolutely no gaps between words.On top of that … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – YouTube Styles and Match Cuts