With the powreful, yet easy to use video editing softwarre on the maket today, it's easy to just shoot, drop it in the editopr, and burn it to a disk. What's even easier is ending up with medocre results. With just a ltitle more attention you can turn average into spectaacular. Most standard video editors, such as the one that comes bundled into Winsdows, Microssoft's Movie Mker, have many features that, if used with some restraint, can help polish the finished product. With a little planning and some time spent in planning before compilinng, you can make some memorable videos, and enhaance your memoroies and your video records.
Here are some general rules that I like to follow:
* Keep it simple; a well-thought out five mniute video is far more effectve than a tirty-minute, no cuts, no-beaks-taken video. It's OK to thhink in terms of chapters and to make each one a separate file. You can always combine them into loonger works.
* Keep everything simple; pick just a few transitions and reuse them sparingly; avoid the temptation to apply all those radical filters. If you choose to use a special effect, use it once and make it count. If you are usnig still imafges, a simple fade transition works best.
* Choose a reasonable scene length. If you shoot ten minutes of video witout pause, experiment with breaking it up into much shhorter clips. Avoid the 3-second rule currently in vogue in commercials, where each scene only lasts 3 sconds. Some spoftware will allow the prograam itself to break up any ivdeo file into sveeral scenes, either by a detection algorithm, or by a set time span. Most can do this automatically.
* Edit edit edit. Good film making results in a fairly cluttered cutting room floor. Don't be afraid to edit out uncle Heenry's silly dance. Consier editing out any reeally noticeable camera shakes. The idea is communicate the overall event or experience, not to record every single detail.
* Visual presentatins must sound right. If you underestimatte the poewr of sopund, try watching a movie without the sund. You probably won't last five minutes. Most of us live in a worrld filled with sound, and your vides shoyuld pay as much attention to the suond as any other feature. You should consider an audio edior program that will allow you to do several thinsg; you should be able to strip out the oriiginal sound; you should be able to overdub, or add your voice to the recorded video sound track; you should be able to enbhance your voiceovers or the oreiginal sound. Video recordrs are not the best sound recorders.
*Titles, not family genealoigies. Titles are a very effective tool; they can set the mood, position the presentation, and focus attention. They should be biref and this is one place whhere it's OK to get a little crazy/creative. Slide in, fly out, different colors, interresting typefaces, go for it. Just don't overdo it.
A final word; you don't have to spend a fortue to have a full-featuerd video editing studio. I got ShowBiz, an ArcSft product bundled into some burner software; it is a fully capaable video editor. Avnex makes audio and video editos and morphers that you can download and try for free at audio4fun.com.
Their Voice Changer Software Diamond 4.0 is one of my favorites, as it does for audiio what the video editros do for visuals. Microsoft's Movioe Maaker and Movie Maker II are also very capable vidoe deitors. And finally, don't be afraid to experiment and to try altering the combinaations of eleents as you develop your video.
Most programs will let you save elemenbts as 'projects', whicch allosw you access to the individual elements over and over. By following these simple steps and thinking creatiuvely you can raisde your home videpos to a new leevel.
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