Edit Faster: A Trick Every New YouTuber Should Know
If you are recording videos where you or the person in the video is talking to the camera or just talking in general, there is a problem you will hit when you get to the editing.
That problem is that you will have a bunch of “takes” where you or the speaker got it wrong or the clip itself just wasn’t quite right.
That’s perfectly normal but when you get all those clips into editing software, it can take hours to sort through it all to end up with only the good stuff.
An alternative to this is to stop the recording when it gets messed up, delete that take then re-start but frankly that just messes up the speaker’s flow even more.
Nine times out of ten the fact that a take has been screwed up is pretty obvious although sometimes you may not be totally sure.
The answer to this is to record continuously and as you go, mark either the good or “potentially” good takes differently than the ones you know are garbage.
In the video below you can see a demonstration of this using a loud sound or clap to mark bad takes.
I personally do it the other way around by marking the good one but either way the result is the same and you will save a bunch of time.
In Camera Transitions: Why I Stopped
This next video is not some kind of tutorial on in-camera transitions or whether they are desirable or not.
Essentially it is a discussion on what creates “style” when it comes to making videos and perhaps lays out a path to you discovering your own style.
One thing I do know is that every video maker operating at a professional level has followed the same path.
It starts with a desire to engage in the activity followed by a learning stage where the basics get covered.
After that there is the consumption of an enormous amount of existing content by others that is accompanied by more learning to “see how they did it.”
This usually marks a period of making videos that are pretty much copies of other people’s work either in their entirety or at least partially.
The final step through sheer repetition, learning and application, the emergence of a style.
Use Motion Tracking for Effects, Overlays & More – PowerDirector Tutorial
This is a recently created tutorial from the folks at CyberLink on how to access and use the Motion Tracking tool.
There are a bunch of things you can use this feature for with most being covered in the video.
Track and Blur Moving Objects The Right Way – PowerDirector
Following on from the video above here’s pretty much the same thing from PowerDirector University only in this one using the blurring feature to hide something.
The reason this is handy to know is that once you have created a motion path (the tracking) you can apply all sorts of effects to it as well as have other assets behave differently by following that path.
6 Free Video Editors in 2025
This is a rundown of the current state of play for when it comes to free video editing software in 2025.
If you are looking for an editing solution but don’t want to pay for it right now then one of these should get you started.
Obviously the freebies do have some limitations but if your needs are modest (or your budget!) then one of these could serve you well.
5 Cinematic Editing Tricks Every Creator Should Know – Filmora
The first steps in creating any kind of video is to get your video editing software under control.
This applies to any brand of software and should be the first target you are working towards.
Once you have it reasonably under control and feel fairly comfortable getting things done or at least comfortable about how to work out how to get things done, the next steps should be towards creativity.
I know the term “cinematic” gets bandied about too often so let’s just ignore that!
The steps I am talking about and what’s shown in the video below are the techniques that take a “well executed” video up to the level of “engaging.”
YouTube July 2025 Monetization Updates and Examples of Demonetized Channels
YouTube recently updated their content guidelines singling out particular content or channels for demonetization.
As is usually the case when this sort of thing happens, there have been quite a few videos being posted about the inevitable end of western civilization as we know it and we are all going to hell.
Just as usually, none of that is actually true!
In the video below Jacky goes through some of the changes and if you really step back and take a deep breath you will see that nothing particularly dramatic has actually occurred!
Anyway rather than me go on about it check out the video below for a reasonable response to what has changed.
DaVinci Resolve 20 Quick Tips – 3 New Audio Plugins
With the release of DaVinci Resolve 20 there were a few updates that flew under the radar and some of them were in the Fairlight Page dealing with audio.
Those updates were in the form of effects plugins and from the outside didn’t really appear to be adding much to the mix.
For example Fairlight has a great EQ control so why would there be a need for a dedicated EQ Effects plugin on top of that?
In the video below you can see these new plugins in action and why you may want to use them.
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