Day to Night Hyperlapse Tutorial
Matthew Vandeputte has always been my go to guy when it comes to time lapse and hyperlapse tutorials.
Just in case you are new to the subject, a time lapse is a series of shots over time from a fixed point speeding up the events unfolding in front of the camera.
A hyperlapse is the same concept only over time the position of the camera within the scene is constantly changing adding a further dimension to the motion shown.
Anyhoo, hyperlapses can result in some pretty awesome footage but before you go leaping into it there are some things you need to know!
Check out the video below for the complete picture.
How to Edit YouTube Videos in 2024 with Must-Know Tips and Tricks
These are just some general tips for polishing up your videos.
Bear in mind that these days it is very easy for anyone to lift the standard of a project in video editing software.
If you are not doing it and everyone else is you soon begin to stand out for all the wrong reasons.
Complete CapCut Video Editing Tutorial (2024)
Full disclosure here: I don’t personally use CapCut for much of my video editing and in fact use it very little overall.
Sometimes my wife will complete a project in CapCut for herself and she will send it to me for a few finishing touches so in that case I use it.
Other times she will not know how to do something so I use my copy to work it out for her but beyond that it basically just sits on my computer.
Now all of this is not to say I don’t think it is a good product.
In fact for someone new to video editing I think it is an excellent choice to get you started.
The problem for me is that I have been using other programs for years now so learning a new one is a waste of my time.
In light of that the guys from Primal Video just released a full CapCut tutorial and if you are interested in the software it is well worth a look.
How To Replace A Background Using AI in CapCut
Speaking of CapCut, I just received a notice this week from the guys at CapCut regarding their background removal tool.
This is a feature they have had for a little while now but the news they shared is that the tool has been updated.
From what I can see in the software interface nothing much has changed but it appears that they have updated the A.I. engine they use to make to tool work.
The beauty of these kinds of tools is that you don’t need to have green screen footage to achieve the effect but the downside is the A.I.
By that I mean that the effectiveness of the tool relies on the A.I. engine driving it and the size of the dataset it has access.
In order to accurately identify and remove the background it has to have had a great deal of “learning time” with an even greater amount of a comparble image dataset to draw its’s conclusions.
I have just taken the updated module for a bit of a test run and yes, it is better than was and a lot more accurate.
To be fair previously it was pretty good but now it seems to be able to separate backgrounds from footage where the contrast isn’t as strong.
Worth taking a look at.
Tips on Bringing Background Music into your Project in PowerDirector
Probably one of the longest and potentially soul crushing jobs you will have to do when editing videos is choosing background music.
I am sure that we all set off on this task full off hope and good intentions but it doesn’t take long before the rot sets in!
The problem with choosing music is that you have to actually listen to it to make a choice.
Images are easy, you just scan through quickly and make a snap decision.
With music you have to actually listen to it to form an opinion.
Most video editors these days come with a library of music you can use for free and some even connect to third party services to expand the range.
In PowerDirector there are four main ways you can add music so in the video below you can see those in action.
Filmora 14: Beta Test
Well the people at Wondershare never disappoint with the relentless development of Filmora!
I just updated to 13.6.13 last week and already they are testing out Filmora 14 in Beta!
Anyway the thing I like about Wondershare as a company is that even though they are pushing very hard on upgrades to their software, they still keep a close eye on bug squashing which is a trap some others fall into.
So in the video below from Jacky you can see a few of the new features they are toying with prior to final release.
Discover The Incredible Outside Node In DaVinci Resolve 19 Color Page
Well I did not know that! Dang!
I have just been correcting some footage for some Shorts where the lighting was pretty bad due to the white balance getting messed up.
Trying to correct the image meant that getting the yellow out of the background meant the skin tones were messed up and correcting the skin tones messed up everything else.
What I was doing was isolating the skin by spending some time on getting a good key on that for correction.
Then in another node, selecting some of the background, spending more time getting an accurate key and correcting that.
Sometimes I am doing it for a third element and needless to say I may be doing Shorts but there is nothing “short” about it!
Then this video dropped in my inbox and life got a whole lot better!
Outside nodes make this so much easier, check it out!
Pro Editing Tips with Alex Acosta – Adjustment Events
This is a tutorial executed in Vegas Creative using what they call “Adjustment Events.”
In most other editing software the term used is “Adjustment Layers” or “Transform Effects.”
The idea is that whatever you call it an effect layer is added to the top of the timeline above the clip you want to affect.
Any change added to the layer is applied to whatever lies below that layer.
While it may seem that this is a roundabout way of adding an effect to a clip there is method in this madness!
Let’s say you want to zoom in on the subject at some point then later zoom back out to where you started.
Let’s also say that this action will be repeated a number of times throughout the project.
You can achieve the zoom in using the Adjustment Event (Layer) and get it doing exactly what you want.
After that instead of having to repeat the process you just copy and paste that first adjustment layer.
For people editing single shot, one camera videos this is a great way of breaking things up and adding some visual dynamics to a project.
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