Best Camera Settings for Video – Dynamic & Sharp Videos
About a year or so ago I started using a Sony ZV-E10 to shoot all of my video work whereas previously I had been using mainly smartphones for that purpose.
Of course that put me into a whole new world of pain because when you start using a “normal” camera for video things go downhill very fast!
The problem is that you actually have to know how to set it and your shot up correctly to use it to its full potential.
In fact this was so much the case that there were many times when I thought screw it, I’m going back to that phone!
One of the YouTube creators that I discovered in trying to work it all out that really got me on track with the Sony was Diana Gladney who runs a YouTube Channel for exactly what I needed.
Best of all she has a wonderfully relaxed presentation style, delivers information without any fluff and ultimately makes it all easy to understand.
You can check out her Youtube channel here:
This week she has crossed over to the world of the guys at Primal video with an excellent video on getting the best out of your device for crisp clear video.
Subtitles as Chapters Uploading to YouTube in PowerDirector
One significant change that has occurred for hosting your videos on YouTube over the past few years is the subject of subtitles.
Previously subtitles were a sort of “bonus feature” that some people would add for various reasons.
For some it was to help the audience, for some it was to improve the SEO score of the video.
These days subtitles are no longer an optional extra.
User data from YouTube and most other video platforms suggests that up to 70% of all video being watched is being done with the subtitles intentionally turned on.
I personally think this is probably due to mobile devices being used almost by default these days so people clearly prefer to have the audio “backed up” with a visual reference.
Most of the major video editing programs these days have at least some kind of subtitling functionality and given it takes no effort to do it, you should be doing it as well.
Here’s a neat little trick shown in PowerDirector of how you can leverage the timing code in your subtitle file (.srt file) to automatically create chapters for YouTube uploading.
How I Would Learn Video Editing If I Could Start Over (2024)
OK, in all reality this is a cleverly disguised, extended promotion for the Movavi Video Editor so let’s not fool ourselves here!
However having acknowledged that there are two reason why I have included it in this weeks post.
The first is that the product itself is one I recommend anyway because it is a very good video editing solution.
The second reason is that the tips they mention are very good and make a lots of sense!
To that end the first tip in the video is probably the most important.
In a nutshell that tip is to learn one thing at a time and learn it well before moving on.
These days even the most basic video editing software will offer a multitude of tools and choices to a new user and “half-learning” a bunch of stuff only ends in confusion and feeling overwhelmed.
360° Video Editing in Corel VideoStudio
360° video is something I have never really explored as both a capture and output format.
It’s probably just me but I just don’t get it!
To me it is still just that little too gimmicky ans a little too niche for my liking but if you are interested here’s a tutorial for creating 360° videos using Corel VideoStudio.
The Ultimate Step-by-Step Guide Of Import and Export For Basic Editing
One of the keys to really coming to grips with exactly what you can do with any video editing program is fully understanding the functions available in the interface.
What we tend to do is find a way of getting something done, then sticking with that way until the end of time!
However very often it turns out that the way we “worked it out” doesn’t really take full advantage of what the software can actually do.
In fact once we see that different way, the task in question becomes way less time consuming and makes a lot more sense.
These days most video editing software solutions offer an enormous amount of control and alternatives for completing tasks especially the more mundane ones that we want to get past quickly and get into the editing.
The reason I am mentioning this is because this week Filmora put out a user generated tutorial on Importing and Exporting assets in Filmora 14.
My initial thought was big deal, you pull stuff in and you render stuff out!
Then I noticed the video was twenty minutes long which piqued my interest.
After watching it I realized there were a few features I had totally missed and some stuff I had no idea you could do.
Motion Tracking + Planar Tracking Filmora 14 Tutorial For Beginners
I think it was a few weeks ago I mentioned that Filmora had added Planar Tracking to the features of Filmora 14.
At that time I briefly covered the difference between Motion tracking and Planar tracking but in all reality if it was me explaining it, I’m sure the results were… mixed?
Anyway here’s video from Jacky explaining and better still, demonstrating motion tracking and Planar tracking in Filmora 14.
Master DaVinci Resolve LIVE featuring Mr. Alex Tech!
OK fair warning here for this one!
This is an hour and twenty minutes long so I would highly recommend you procure a beverage of choice and perhaps some snacks before diving in!
This is a webinar hosted by Daniel Batal with as his guest, Mr. AlexTech and the subject is of course DaVinci Resolve.
If you have followed the Friday Roundups at all you will be familiar with these two guys as a couple of my steady sources of information on using Resolve.
Mr. AlexTech is my guy for audio in particular and Daniel is my guy for general beginner level tutorials.
In this webinar they cover just about everything under the sun and it is well worth taking some time out of your day to watch for lots of DaVinci Resolve goodness.
Track ANY MASK in DaVinci Resolve – Pro Techniques for Color & Fusion
Great tutorial from Casey Faris for this week in DaVinci Resolve.
In this tutorial he goes over a number of techniques and applications for using masks in conjunction with tracking.
He gives some excellent examples of how you could use it as well as a number of different ways to approach the task depending on what you want as well as the footage you are dealing with.
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