Top Ten Tips for Video Editing Beginners
Many of my clients, after they have digitized their videotapes (Hi8, MiniDV, VHS, VHS-C or Beta) to Mp4 files onto an external hard drive or DVD, want to edit their family memories into a DVD or web video for Youtube, Vimeo or Facebook. I provide Final Cut Pro video editing services myself, but for those interested in taking on the task themselves, I have some tips on how to edit a great family video. So I have decided to make a list of my top 10 tips for video editing beginners: 10) Have a clear vision in mind. Know the purpose and scope...
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I’ve been fortunate enough to make a living at doing what I love: working with video. So picking the top 5 video moments of my career is kind of hard! Although I enjoy almost every moment I work with video in my career, here are the top 5 highlights. 5. Traveling to Mexico to produce a promotional video about Solar Cooking 4. Traveling to New York to shoot & edit a video commemorating the bravery of firefighters on the 5th anniversary of 9/11 3. Getting to work with legendary television professionals Leon Harris, Arch Campbell,...
read moreThe "YouTube Effect" on the Internet and Video
It never ceases to amaze me when I think about what the world would be like without YouTube. As a video video editor you could say I have had a love/hate relationship with the website. In the beginning, Youtube emerged as a powerful tool that allowed us to search and find all kinds of media. The original quality of the videos however was very low. Throughout the years Youtube has made vast improvements with regard to video quality and format upload variety. Youtube is now an almost indispensable tool for me as a video...
read moreDigital Video Gift Ideas
Digital Video Gift Ideas Something people ask me all the time is: “How do I make a gift out of my old videos?” I have a simple answer: use your old videos to make a digital scrapbook! Your digital videos can be the ideal gift. After your VHS, Hi8, VHS-C, or MiniDV tapes are digitized to either the Mp4 or H.264 format, you can sort though your family videos and make notes of where the highlights are. I then can edit those highlights into a digital scrapbook using my Apple Final Cut Pro editing software. Once completed,...
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My Top Five Personal Video Moments Part of the reason I love working with family videos is because I was lucky enough to come from a family that made many of them, and therefore I had a great amount of awesome personal video memories! When I was a baby my grandfather bought a VHS camcorder and would come to our home in Washington D.C. and tape myself and my younger brother Robbie. My parents went on to use Hi-8 tapes and then a VHS-C camcorder to document our family events at in Bethesda and Rockville, Maryland as my brother and I grew...
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