Master Your Camera in 20 Minutes
If you have hit a bit of a wall shooting videos and are having trouble getting them to look as good as you think they should then possibly it is time to go back to basics.
Similarly if you are using a camera to shoot your videos or even a smart phone with a camera app then that all adds up to nothing unless you know exactly how to take advantage of it.
From the outset the idea of taking control of your camera may seem rather daunting because there seems to be an endless list of settings and controls you are supposed to know how to use.
In fact that’s not exactly true especially when it comes to video.
Once you understand how things actually are it soon becomes clear as to what is important and what isn’t.
The video below is a very simply presented and very clear explanation of the settings you really need to know to lift your footage up to the next level.
15 TIPs & TRICKs for Filming and Editing YouTube Videos
Here’s a bunch of tips from Kevin at Basic Filmmaker on YouTube which is a bit of a roundup of the tips he has been giving over the years.
The beauty of these is that none of them are any great moments that would cause some kind of breakthrough as far as YouTube video success goes.
What they actually are is part of a whole bunch of tiny little details that will make you look good and keep your audience engaged.
You Have To Use These PowerDirector Tools – Live Q&A
Back in the day when I first started getting into video, the chances of more than one person shooting footage at an event whether private or public was pretty slim.
These days it’s a whole different story.
By the time your average kids birthday party has wrapped up there is probably a greater length of footage available than the actual running time of the party!
If you have been lumped with the task of putting it all together into one cohesive video then that can be quite a long process.
However there is one tool in most video editing software these days that makes the process a whole lot easier.
That tool is multi-cam editing.
In the video below Maleik covers this tool and a bunch of others you can use to make you editing experience better.
This AI Avatar Replaced Me on Camera (And No One Could Tell the Difference!)
This is a run through of some of the main players in a field of A.I. video avatar creators.
These are the more cutting edge services you can try for free at the beginning but what sets them apart is how they implement the A.I aspect of it.
These services will actually create “deep fakes” of you then have those avatars actually present a video as you!
At the higher end of these services you can upload a script, have it translated into other languages then create a video of “fake” you delivering those videos in those languages!
It’s all getting a bit wild out there!
How to Add a Border in Corel VideoStudio
This is a quick tutorial by Gripps on how to add a border to an asset in VideoStudio.
Admittedly VideoStudio hasn’t been updated for a while now but it still runs fine and is perfectly OK for basic video editing tasks.
Make Your Videos Pop With These Filmora Tricks
Well I am not sure if there is too much “popping” going on here but what I do know is that this video is another in a series by Filmora re-visiting the software from a new user perspective.
Over the past two years Filmora has been pretty aggressively developed by Wondershare especially since they abandoned their foray into the world of “pro” editors.
Filmora Pro was their attempt at that and although it was quite a promising piece of video editing software, it had little chance of succeeding in that market given the status of programs like DaVinci Resolve and others.
The plus side for users has been that a lot of the features that were in Filmora Pro have now been migrated to Filmora.
That in turn has led to quite a few changes in the user interface from two years ago so Filmora have been playing a little catch up on their tutorial videos by going back over some of those changes.
In the video below they cover the user interface in depth so if you are new to Filmora or want a refresher, this is the one for you!
How Great Editors Think Like Filmmakers (Scene Breakdown)
I occasionally add something to the Friday Roundup from the guys at Film Editing Pro although most often their stuff is way beyond what the average creator at the amateur level will be doing.
When I do add something it is not generally because I think we will all go out and immediately start doing what is shown.
I add it because it shows what we all probably should be looking for as a step to that next level.
Advanced technique, workflows or ideas that we might be able to incorporate in our own projects at our own level.
Here’s How to Edit Videos 5X Faster
OK so this is one of those “over the shoulder” videos I really like to watch on learning how to edit better and edit faster.
The demonstration itself is done using an editing program that I don’t use but the important part is that the type of editor is NOT the point.
Just to be clear though, one of the main tools she uses is the transcript editing tool to cut out silences automatically.
That style of tool is available in most decent video editors these days and for talking head videos like this one it is truly great.
Bear in mind that they can be set to be a little aggressive as to how close they make the cuts based on the audio so if you find it is too sudden you can usually adjust them.
Using that tool does not mean you don’t have to re-listen to your project.
You still have to work your way through and make sure everything is OK but it does save a bunch of time.
The other two points I think are really important are the use of keyboard shortcuts and getting into the habit of saving presets.
Those two things end up saving a ton of time in the long run.
FUSION Frustrations? Solve Them Live with Casey Faris! – DaVinci Resolve
So if you have been following the Friday Roundups for any time now you would have noticed I have some “go to” people for various subjects.
On the subject of using DaVinci Resolve I have two people I look to and they are Casey Faris and Daniel Batal.
Casey is my Fusion guy and Daniel is my general knowledge for newbies guy.
Well this week they got together to do a live stream on Daniel’s channel with Casey covering Fusion and Daniel asking the newbie questions for us.
It’s a great two hours video and I am pretty certain no stone has been left unturned!
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