Video editing is much more than editing the background or blurring unnecessary components in the camera footage. You often require managing dialogue, adding graphics, and special effects to produce the final product. As a video editor, you will be working on a variety of production tasks including commercials, music videos, corporate training videos, television soaps, […]
General Tips
A range of tutorials, tips and general information relevant to the average home video editor.
This section covers handy tools for general computer maintenance and similar resources to help you shoot and edit your videos successfully.
Some Useful Free Tools for Video Editing
Sometimes its not just about the video editing software you choose all by itself. Very often the combination of software limitations and the fact that most of us are not using a computer solely dedicated to video editing can make things a little more complicated than they need to be. These are a few of […]
Security Recommendations Video Editing Computer
The thing to understand about keeping your computer secure is that it is not just something that is “nice to do.” In a very real sense it is something that you should do because you have a responsibility to do it. It is a responsibility to yourself and more importantly, it is a responsibility to others. […]
Debugging Video Editing Software Problems
About once or twice per week minimum I have a reader contact me about video editing problems they are having which is interfering with either their ability to edit or render a project. In nearly every case when this happens I know the person is not going to solve the problem by themselves even though […]
Maintenance Tips for A Video Editing Computer
One aspect of editing videos on the average “home user” type computer set up that to this day remains of vital importance is that of maintaining the machine in it best possible operating state. In the past this was necessary because the files being handled were so large that the hard drives available were often […]