Boost Your Energy On Camera with This Simple Tip
This is just a quick Short but it really is a great tips and worth using for yourself.
In the clip the creator suggests smiling intentionally for a few minute before you start videoing and from experience I know this really does work.
Another thing you can do if you find you or your on-screen talent start to lag in enthusiasm is to run around a little and just be silly!
Sing some silly songs, act crazy… anything to break the mood and get things back to a good mood.
Size Matters when it comes to Watching Videos on YouTube. Edit for the Viewer
Very often when you are editing or even shooting footage for a video you are looking at either viewfinder, a small screen on a camera, a phone screen or the monitor of a computer.
That’s just the nature of the work and not really a problem in itself.
A real problem that can become apparent later is that you audience can’t really see or at least see clearly what it is you are trying to show.
In fact just this week I had a situation where I shot a video and had framed it exactly as it appeared on my camera monitor and it all looked great.
However once I brought it into my computer… it looked really different!
So there is no absolute set of rules to stop this from happening other than an awareness that it is always a possibility.
Here are some tips.
How to Create Dynamic Captions in Filmora 14
So clearly all the really cool kids are not only using captions in their videos these days.
They are actually now using dynamic captions which are caption that are… well… dynamic!
That basically translates to them being both animated to some degree as well as being stylized as to colors and font choices.
Of course you could always do this before but only if you had absolutely nothing else going on in your sad pathetic life… cos’ that’s how much time it took!
These days we life in an A.I. world so in the video below you can see how you can use a little A.I. magic to do those dynamic captions in the blink of an eye!
3 Mistakes Beginners Make – PowerDirector
In this video from Maliek at PowerDirector University he discusses common mistakes beginners make when using PowerDirector editing software.
The video covers three main things:
- Not understanding the interface.
- Not using free resources.
- Not watching tutorials.
In the video he also provides a breakdown of the PowerDirector interface, including modules, media library, preview window, and timeline.
Possibly the most important point is the stress on the value of watching tutorials to learn the basics of editing and avoid common mistakes.
How to Trim Clips on the Timeline and Group Clips
Sometimes in PowerDirector when things are getting a little complex on the timeline it helps to be able to separate out what you are working on from that complexity.
There are a couple of ways you can do this with the most common one being using the “Trim Tool.”
Obviously you can trim clips while they are on the timeline but the Trim Tool lets you take a step back from the overall project and just work on that one thing.
Another tool or feature you can use is the ability to Group Clips which allows you to keep a series of clips within the project but at the same time apply edits to them all as a group.
You can see how it is done in the video below.
How to Screen Record – A Beginner’s Guide
A feature that most of the popular video editing software programs have been carrying for a while now is some kind of screen recording module.
Back in the day these were quite an expensive, standalone proposition but these days that’s simply not the case.
However the reality is that even if you have access to a tool, it doesn’t mean that you are automatically going to be good at using it.
Screen recording style videos are an entire subject unto themselves with their own set of rules and guidelines for success.
In the video below the guys from Movavi cover some of the important points you need to keep in mind when making this kind of video.
Achieving Clarity in Premiere Pro Mixes
So the obvious elephant in the room here is that I don’t use anything from Adobe and probably never will!
However having said that the article linked below is well worth taking a look at.
The use of Premiere Pro is kind of irrelevant to what is important in it.
The article covers various aspects of audio mixing, including dialogue enhancement, dialogue mix, music mix, and mix bus techniques.
It emphasizes the importance of separate tracks for different audio elements, using keyframes for volume adjustments and incorporating fades for smooth transitions.
It is basically a step-by-step guide for mixing, starting with isolating dialogue on separate tracks, enhancing audio.
ANIMATED SUBTITLES in Resolve 20
With the introduction of Resolve 20 there have been a few things added, a few things enhanced, some features extended and some moved to different locations.
In light of that there obviously will be a bunch of new tutorial videos coming to cover all of that so for this week let’s take a look at one from Casey Faris.
In this video he demonstrates how to create animated subtitles in DaVinci Resolve 20 first by automatically creating the subtitles then going into some customization steps.
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