After last week's Friday Roundup I carried on with my schedule fully expecting to gather the usual bunch of stuff for this week's Friday Roundup. Given the fact that we were heading into the whole Christmas/Holidays silly season time of year some might say that was being a tad optimistic. Others may have described it more accurately as delusional! Anyway as the week has … [Read more...] about (Not) The Friday Roundup!
DIY Video Editor Blog
This is where you will find my weekly roundup covering all the latest news, tips, tutorials and releases in the world of shooting, editing and producing video.
The Friday Roundup – Isobuster 4.3, Codec News and Sensors
IsoBuster 4.3 ReleaseQuite a few years ago I started a website devoted to the subject of DVDs.At the time I had just purchased one of the Sony standard definition DVD camcorders that recorded directly to mini DVD discs.At the time they were cutting edge and all the rage so I figured it would be awesome! How wrong I was!Anyway I soon realized I was going to have … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Isobuster 4.3, Codec News and Sensors
The Friday Roundup – Filmora Updates, Shutterstock Select and More!
NEW Filmora9 Update This week the folks at Wondershare release an update to their easy to use video editing software Filmora. This is a fairly rare occurrence with them as they tend to just keep updating and bug fixing at a somewhat quiet and constant rate without too much fanfare. This latest release takes us to version 9 of the software and I am happy to report they are … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Filmora Updates, Shutterstock Select and More!
The Friday Roundup – ISO Settings, YouTube Stories and Rendering
SHOOT the %#$ Thing! Light, Exposure, ISO, History, TipsThis is another good no-nonsense tutorial I came across this week on the subject of manual settings especially in DSLRs and camcorders.Many new and inexperienced video shooters tend to go straight into the Auto settings of their cams and stay there almost forever.Even if the average person does try to dip their … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – ISO Settings, YouTube Stories and Rendering
The Friday Roundup – Sound Effects, Story Boards and Voice Over Tips
Producing Your Own Sound Effects: Perfecting Audio The video below gives a great insight into how you can create your own sound effects and why you perhaps may want to do it. However there is another important take away you can well... take away from it. I often get questions and requests regarding the subject of "making my videos more cinematic" and often what people are … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Sound Effects, Story Boards and Voice Over Tips