How to Film Yourself on a Smartphone — A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners
Using your phone for shooting videos these days is hardly a rare occurrence!
For all the endless videos on YouTube talking about high end equipment it is interesting to note that some of the biggest channels are stll just using phones.
This is even more so on platforms like TikTok and Instagram.
The key to them still using their phones is that they have unlocked the full potential of phone shooting and taken it as far as it can go to a whole new level.
In the video below you can get an idea of some the things you can do to really lift your phone footage to a new level.
PowerDirector Short Form Video: Worth It or Not?
Generally speaking there is often a very brief discussion for when it comes to short form video.
The online “gurus” tend to say it is all very good or all very bad.
Now bear in mind that when I say “online gurus” I mean people who present themselves as experts but really have nothing to back that up.
I tend to listen only to people who have a proven track record of getting results and I don’t mean someone who only has an outrageously high follower count!
I mean people who have been around for a while, have weathered the storms and are still operating!
In the video below Maliek gives his take on short form video in a long discussion that is worth paying attention to.
Beginner’s Guide – PowerDirector Tutorial for Basics
CyberLink have just release a new series of tutorial videos aimed at new users and those wanting to brush up on the new interface.
The videos themselves are pretty good but in keeping with these modern times, the voice-overs are A.I. generated… so there’s that.
I can live with a little A.I. because basically the tutorials are very good.
How to Add Transition Effects in Filmora 14 – Tutorial for Beginners
This is a pretty straightforward tutorial from Jacky on adding working with transitions in Filmora 14.
Of note is that fact that the transition he uses offers control over the duration of that transition only.
It is always good practice when you are working with transitions to go into it’s settings and see what kind of control you have.
Different transitions offer differing degrees of control over how the transition works or is applied.
Bear in mind that every transition will be set to operate in a “default” manner and those defaults are generally determined by average user data on how it has been used in the past.
Just because a bunch of other people used that transition and set it a certain way doesn’t mean that’s the best setting for you or your project.\
Record and Visualize Your GPS Tracks Like a Pro
This is a fairly specialized tutorial specific to a particular type of video or at least a specific feature within a video.
You may at some point want to add a tracking sequence within you video most likely overlayed on a map of some sort to show a trip or journey you went on.
To do this accurately rather than just mocking it up as a tracking sequence in software there are a few Apps you can use to get that GPS data.
You can subsequently use that GPS data in other software or services to then create the map.
In this video you can see a couple of ways to go about the entire thing from start to finish.
Video Editing Tips to Become a Better Editor Quickly
These are a few random tips form Basic FilmMaker that are well worth taking a look at.
Kevin uses Premiere Pro as his editing software so unless you do the same, things are obviously going to look a little different.
Having said that the point of these tips has pretty much nothing to do with whatever software you are using.
Things like setting up your default transition lengths, using zoom cuts, aligning the eyes and the rest of it apply no matter what you use to do your editing.
Keep Your Footage IN FRAME – DaVinci Resolve 20
This is not a particularly “big deal” tip from Daniel Batal for this week but dang!
I wish I had seen this one before!
I often work with 4K footage in 1080p projects for clients and sometimes I use slightly mismatched resolutions in the timeline.
In doing that I often have to re-size or even re-shape some of that footage to make it all look good.
One aspect of the viewer in Resolve is that it has a black background which means sometimes I can miss the fact that I have not sized things correctly until I render.
The little setting Daniel shows in this video handles that.
The Basics of Awesome VFX in DaVinci Resolve 20 – Tracking, Animation, Masks, AI, and More
This is an end to end soup to nuts run through from Casey Faris showing how to work with special effects in DaVinci Resolve 20.
Now before anyone freaks out at the thought of going into the Fusion Page of Resolve… relax!
Casey walks through his tutorials based on the assumption that you know absolutely nothing which is good because I know absolutely nothing too!
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