It’s been a while since I included a tutorial on the YouTube Studio interface so here we go!
As with most things on YouTube the platform and it’s constituent parts are constantly undergoing development and the studio section is no exception.
So if you are new to distributing your videos on YouTube or even are an old hand at it, it’s always worth taking a walk the through the latest and greatest to get the most out of it.
A few weeks back now I posted a pretty comprehensive article on the subject of uploading content to various different social media platforms.
You can read the full article here: Video Editing for Different Social Media Platforms.
In that article I discuss a very important concept regarding how to shoot your videos in a way that will allow for your footage to be easily repurposed for different scenarios.
To put it briefly I always shoot 4K in widescreen or 16:9 aspect ratio.
The reason for that is so that I can later re-frame those videos at 9:16 or 1:1 or whatever resolution depending on the platform I am aiming for.
I don’t shoot 4K because I particularly want to upload the final videos at 4K, I do it so that in re-framing those 16:9 videos to other resolutions, I don’t lose quality.
Over the past few years of A.I. implementation into common video editing software this has become much easier to do.
Previously I had to step through the footage and keyframe repositioning to keep the subject in frame.
Now I use A.I. tools to do it for me and although it is not always perfect, the whole process is way faster.
Here’s a look at PowerDirector’s version of this tool in action.
Another tips video from the folks at Movavi for this week, this time taking it all a bit old school!
This one shows how to add an old Windows 95 effect to your videos, only with Movavi you don’t have to go scouring the interwebs for an appropriate image.
The effect you need is already in the effects library so if this is what you want to do you are ready to go!
So Dina and Agnes put together some pretty interesting tutorials that really show what you can do with your average consumer level video editor these days.
In this tutorial they show how to put together a very professional looking user interface graphic animation in CapCut.
Two things to watch out for here:
First, the devil is in the details! It’s all the little adjustments and touches that take what could be a basic graphic animation and make it look pro.
The second is that they run through their tutorials really, really fast!
I found the best way to to deal with it is to have the editor open at the same time as the video.
That way I can stop and start the video as I replicate their steps.
One of the first things that became obvious to me when I started producing videos at a higher rate than I had previously was that I needed to get organized!
Having a space to shoot videos is fine but if you have to set up that space over and over, it gets very tiresome very fast.
The same goes for having somewhere to do the pre and post production work like script writing as well as editing.
If you don’t have a clean functional space this too becomes very tiresome very fast.
The result is that when you start to think about the actual things you are supposed to be doing, you just feel tired before you even start.
Even then when you do get started it all just feels like work!
So to deal with that I now have a space set up specifically for shooting and I have another space where I can sit down in an distraction free environment and do my pre and post production work.
I am lucky in that I have an office that allows me those two separate spaces to work in but I understand not all of us have that luxury.
So here’s a video from Gabriel VIP showing how and why he set up his working space the way he has.
Don’t look at this as though you need to exactly copy what he had done.
To be honest I couldn’t have my space that way as sometimes I need more distance between the camera and the subject.
However his logic in how he has arranged things makes perfect sense and is well worth shamelessly stealing!
Well I guess Daniel started off with this tutorial with the intention of explaining what it says in the title.
However, although he actually does show you how to simply color balance footage from different sources, the tutorial ends up showing a whole bunch more!
This is a great tutorial for learning how to navigate your way around the Color Page in DaVinci Resolve and an top of that a whole bunch of tips and tools you can use under any circumstances,
I am becoming quite a fan of Chris Goor’s take on creating videos to build a channel or online presence.
I have been watching his videos for a while now and I really think he has a place in everyone’s content creation journey.
In this video he deals with something that really bugs me about a lot of creators which basically boils down to two concepts.
The first is asking for something before having provided anything of any value.
The second is talking down to the audience as if they are second rate because they haven’t achieved what you have.
It’s a thoughtful video and well worth watching and taking the advice onboard.
This is a continuation of an article I added to last week’s Friday Roundup on the subject of HDR video.
Although this is not really aimed at a beginner to intermediate user I think it is an important subject to cover in some way.
It is very easy to get caught up in subjects like this and start thinking that problems you may be having are because of things like this.
Other more advanced creators can quite literally “blind you with science” and lead you off into something that you really don’t need.
The best defense in cases like this is knowing exactly as to whether or not it really is for you.
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