DIY Video Editor Blog

 So this week in the Friday Roundup you will notice a couple of things that are different from the normal. First up it is a pretty short post! The reason is that the world is currently locked into the insanity of the whole Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Cyber-Monday thingy. Theoretically the main point of all of this I think is supposed to be the Thanksgiving part of it. Sadly … [Read more...] about The (Black) Friday Roundup – “It’s Enough Already” Edition

Professionals are not "Careful" Over the past few weeks I have seem to have been stumbling across a lot of videos showing how to use masks and motion tracking in videos. Most fully loaded video editing software these days has at least some kind of rudimentary ability to execute these tasks. Like many editing features we have at our finger tips the one main limit on all of … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Working it Like a Pro, Sin City and More

How To Structure Your Videos For More Watch Time Although the video below was intended specifically for YouTube creators I think it has a lot to offer the average person in terms of how you and I create our own projects. I think one of the first concepts that tends to go out the window when you are immersed in an editing project is that of the viewer's perspective. Too often I … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Common Mistakes, YouTube Tips and Motion Paths

Yay! Freebies! Once a year the guys at Shutterstock (royalty free stock images, footage etc.) in conjunction with PremiumBeat (think music for videos), do a week long giveaway promotion. Generally it is a mixed bag of video and audio assets including lens flares, textures and elements, sound effects and on and on. They have basically wrapped up the "giveaway week" for his year … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Shot Lists, Free Stuff and Audio Effects

It's Not Me, It's You This week I added a new post to the website covering the subject of debugging software problems when it comes to video editing. The main reason I did that was to finally put down somewhere a copy of the steps I generally take when people contact me for help with whatever trouble they are having. I think the most surprising thing for most new users of … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Sound Design, Chroma Key and Comedy