Don’t Make Viewers Play Catch-Up
One of the great truths in making videos is that the most important part of video, is audio!
The vast majority of viewers will forgive substandard video quality but will switch off in a heartbeat when there is bad audio.
This rejection rate gets multiplied enormously when the audio we are referring to is dialogue.
Below is a great little #Short that explains exactly what is happening in the heads of your audience when your dialogue is muffled, garbled, unclear or drowned out by other audio assets in the sound track.
Turn One Camera Into a Multi-Cam Look
One of the most common suggestions for improving your videos is through the use of B-roll footage to add emphasis, context and a for range of other reasons.
That advice is actually quite solid in itself but in my experience there is a huge hole where the full information on how, why and when it should be used.
In the video below Gabriel covers (almost) everything you need to know about using B-roll but were afraid to ask.
Remove Objects, Noise & Backgrounds with AI – PowerDirector Tutorial (2026)
This is just a straightforward demonstration of the various “A.I. removal” modules currently available in CyberLink PowerDirector.
Of course there is a bunch of other A.I stuff in there but I find that these ones are the ones I tend to use on a regular basis.
The Noise removal tool is quite simple and very effective however the other two, Objects and Background need a little more TLC.
Easily the best results come from footage where there is clear separation between the subject and the background or the target object and that background.
How to use the Precut Tool in PowerDirector to Extract Good Footage
Ever since we all started using our phones for shooting videos and our video cameras started using memory cards instead of legacy media, a lack of footage has not really been a problem!
In fact if you take a look at the average family gathering these days, just about everyone walks away with a bunch of shots taken at random times of even more random events at that gathering!
I don’t know about you but usually I am the guy that ends up being assigned the task of somehow stitching it all together into some kind of coherent project.
Very often my go to program for that purpose is going to be PowerDirector because of the Precut tool mentioned in the title of the video below.
It is a great time saver for getting all that footage sorted so that the project itself can go way more smoothly.
Filmora 15.4 Update: Seedance 2.0, AI Tools & New Features Explained
In a move this week that surprised absolutely no-one… Filmora updated yet again!
From the outside it would seem that Filmora is doing nothing but adding A.I. features to the software and that’s all it now does… nothing could be further from the truth.
If you take a closer look at what is actually on offer inside Filmora these days from an A.I perspective you will notice one recurring theme.
The actual A.I. on offer is very closely designed to create short assets, enhance existing footage or audio as well as develop ideas towards a larger overall project.
For me this is very much how things should be.
After all, if you are devoted to having some kind of automation to the point where you (the human) do nothing… then what’s the point of you being there in the first place?!
Bring Your History to Life: Mixing AI Magic with Corel VideoStudio
This is a pretty cool tutorial from Gripps2211 for this week highlighting what I believe to be a sensible approach to A.I.
Right now apart from more extreme examples the available A.I. models for various video tasks are somewhat limited to short clips or specific tasks.
The marketing is suggesting (falsely promising?) that entire projects can be pulled of using A.I. but for the most part that’s not entirely true… yet!
For the average user the best use of A.I. is the sort of project he talking about here.
A.I. used to pull off certain tasks then the whole shebang pulled into any reasonably equipped video editor to be organized into a cohesive project.
3 Best Video Editing Apps For Android in 2026! (Free + Paid)
Well it must be that time of year again cos’ the boys at Primal Video are rounding up the video editing Apps for Android again!
Fair warning here, I never use smart phones for any video editing although I do use them for shooting on occasion.
At first I thought it was a “me” problem on the editing side but after having watched my wife yelling at her phone whilst trying to edit… perhaps not!
Anyhoo, if you are hell-bent on doing it, here’s a look at what’s available.
Frame Rates Explained – The Basics
There is a wealth of information floating around on the internet these days on all aspects of video shooting and editing.
In reality that all works as a bit of a double edged sword because to get the knowledge you need to absorb the data but to correctly evaluate that data… you need existing knowledge!
Something that has really worked for me over the years has been to first ignore what I need to know and focus on who would be a good source to learn that information from.
That’s why each week on the Friday Roundup there are regular sources added over and over again because I know they know what they are talking about!
As you make you way through this internet morass you will inevitably come across information that will give you pause and make you wonder if maybe you should (or should not) be doing that thing.
Of course your best defence is to have a good understanding of whatever the subject is so in the spirit of that, here’s everything you need to know about frame rates!
Fusion vs. Color Page: Which One to Choose for Masking? – DaVinci Resolve
One of the questions I get over and over regarding DaVinci Resolve is why is it so complicated!
The answer to that is quite simple really.
It was always designed and aimed at fully professional productions and as such the demands put on it have always been many and widely varied.
A good example of these differences can be seen in this #Short below from Daniel Batal.
It shows a pretty standard action of masking but depending on what the editor is actually doing, we have two totally different methods.
Key Takeaways
- Audio quality is critical in video production; viewers tolerate poor visuals but reject bad audio.
- B-roll footage enhances videos, but many creators lack guidance on its effective use.
- AI tools in PowerDirector help remove noise and objects, though effectiveness depends on footage quality.
- Filmora’s recent updates focus on AI features that enhance existing content rather than automating entire projects.
- Frame rates and editing techniques need a solid understanding for effective video production.
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