DIY Video Editor Blog

Shooting in Portrait ModeThere comes a time in everyone's life (well mine actually) that you have to decide whether you are going to descend into being a grumpy old fart stuck in your ways and resisting change or just relax and go with the flow.Personally I'd much prefer to take the grumpy old fart path but unfortunately logic is getting in the way so I guess I am going … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Vertical Videos, Better Titles and 360 Editing

Wedding Video Tips As an introduction to the video below on tips for wedding videos let me just explain myself a little here.The whole purpose of these weekly roundups is for me to scan through the morass of information presented every week on the subject of shooting videos, editing videos and distributing them.This is all done with the amateur or enthusiastic amateur … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Wedding Videos, VFX Basics and Camera Movement

SFX Secrets: The Graphic Match Cut Very often when you are wandering about the internet trying to find information on editing and how to cut things together you come across the term "match cut." It is implied that this is a cut between two shots where the components of both shots although quite different, are in many ways the same. Imagine a guy in the desert looking up at … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Match Cuts, Sound Effects and Hyperlapse

Transition Tutorial - CyberLink PowerDirector 15 One of the best ways to save a bunch of time when you are editing is to have certain defaults set up so all you have to do is point and click so that action occurs. This is especially true for transitions. Rather than having to repeatedly go into the transitions area in your effects library and go through to find the same one … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Motion Tracking, Transitions and Audio Tips

6 TRICKS to shoot Cellphone Videos Probably nothing new here as far as smart phone video tricks go but really, most of it bears repeating. One of my pet hates when it comes to footage captured on the fly by amateurs is the application of the "watering the garden" technique for shooting. I am sure you have seen it and I am almost as sure you have probably done it! You know, … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Color Grading, Smartphone Tips and YouTube