DIY Video Editor Blog

The Hidden Transition Netflix Uses to Keep You WatchingIt is easy to think of transitions as those prepackaged effects that come with your software that you can slap in between clips and you are good to go.Problem with this is that professionals almost never use those things!The difference is that transitions are an action and not a thing.A transition is how you … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Cool Transitions and Rolling Shutter

How to Film YourselfCreating video content even with a very small team can be pretty challenging at the best of times.However if you are going it totally alone the demands can go through the roof.That's not to say you can't do it but the reality is that doing for a sustained period of time will ultimately start to break you down.If you have no other alternative … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Going Solo & Blue Screen vs. Green Screen

YouTube SEO: Is YouTube Search REALLY Dead?I always get a bit of a laugh out of the endless "SEO is dead" headlines that you see on YouTube or SEO blogs.Optimizing for the search engines to understand and evaluate your property on YouTube or anywhere for that matter will never stop.It's what they do!Anyway all silliness aside, here's a great video on the real … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – YouTube SEO & Transporter Effect

20 Video Editing Secrets from 1000 VideosA lot of people tend to search for tips or tutorials on that "big thing" or that one magic technique that is going to give a final professional polish to their videos.The truth is that if you look carefully at videos that have that professional polish there is no "one big thing" making them look that way.Those kinds of … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Video Editing Secrets & FFmpeg in Audacity

Why Your #Shorts Views Flatline when You UploadShorts on YouTube have been around for over two years now and the bottom line is that people are still trying to work out how to make them work properly.I think part of the problem is that YouTube themselves didn't really know what to do with them so guidance to creators was always a bit unclear.There are many "experts" … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – YouTube #Shorts and Text Reveals