Video Editing | Basic Principles for Beginners
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Review the basic principles for video editing and which platforms are the best to use for beginners. Additional links, tutorials, tips and tricks.
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Video Editing | Basic Principles for Beginners
- 2. Choose your Platform • Deciding which platform to use can be stressful, especially if you have never worked in video editing before • There are three main programs to use for beginners and one for more advances users – OnlineVideo Platform – IMovie – Windows Movie Maker – Adobe Premiere Pro
- 3. WeVideo • Difficulty Level: Beginner • This is a (sort of) free online platform • Users are able to easily insert images and clips (or use WeVideo’s) and drag and drop them to their specified spots • You can also insert music and transitions to effectively relay your subject to the audience • Only allows 5 minutes of video time with the free version • https://www.wevideo.com/academy • This link has a lot of really great video tutorials to improve your user ability within the WeVideo platform
- 4. Bietable • Difficulty Level: Beginner • Free online platform • Allows you to choose from their animations, videos, and images.Or you can upload your own. • You can add text and choose your own color styles and themes • Upload your music or use theirs. • Extremely user friendly for beginners • Can be slow • https://biteable.com
- 5. Kizoa • Difficulty Level: Beginner-Advanced • Free online platform – Students receive free premium account with their .edu email account • Offers more than just video editing – Collage Maker – Ordering Prints • Offers photos, transitions, effects, text, animations, and music. • You can Use a template or start from scratch • A lot of editing options • https://pf.kizoa.com/i- Contact/hmenuc2.jsp?rmode=40&phpsession=&lang=en- us&country=US¶m=register&domain=www.kizoa.co m
- 6. IMovie • Difficulty Level:Advanced • Many students are often familiar with either Imovie orWindows Movie Maker (no longer available) through video projects done throughout their middle and high school careers • These platforms should already be available for free on your laptop device depending on whether you are working on a Mac orWindows system • Very similar to WeVideo but will allow you to have more control in video editing and you wont have to deal with slow internet connections • IMovieTutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vbzDXk4vKk
- 7. Adobe Premiere • Difficulty Level: Professional • This is the most complex platform as well as the most professional • This platform will allow you to freely edit and manipulate videos in the most creative way possible • If you are familiar with IMovie or Windows Movie Maker and want to challenge yourself, this may be your best platform • This is an expensive program that must be purchased through Adobe.
- 8. PRE-EDITING TIPS • Brainstorm – Pick a topic or focus – Develop that visual in your head “image” or “scene” – In order to create a strong digital narrative your images need to really tell the story – Just as you would create a flow of video clips, you need to have a good flow of imagery • Create a Storyboard – Develop a script – Create a frame by frame visual guideline – Will help keep you on track and hold that specific vision • Understand your Output – What social media platform will you post the video? – Helps to determine the length and style of video • Don’t shoot to edit – Cutting takes up a whole lot of editing time and is a huge headache – When filming keep that in mind – When using images, find images that really compliment each other through contrast and parallelism
- 9. Contrast • Different from the design principle of “contrast” • Refers to the cut between two different scenes that are complete opposites • Images – Image viewing you as a child transitions to an image of you as an adult • Videos – Going from a video of a man driving a car to a video shot of a man taking public transportation • Contrast also can be achieved through image to video transitioning
- 10. Parallelism • Connecting two seemingly unrelated scenes by cutting between them and focusing on parallel features. – Goal is to create an association between the two shots or images in the viewers mind • Example inVideo – Video cuts from a someone dialing a telephone in NewYork to a shot of another answering the phone in India. • Example in Images – Image of you cooking transitions to image of you presenting the final food.
- 11. Simultaneity • Cutting between two events occurring at the same time • Example inVideo – A cut of a kid running late for school to a cut of the teacher impatiently waiting • Example in Image – An image shot of a baseball player getting ready to bat transitions to a team anticipating a good hit
- 13. Transitions DONT’S • Use wild transitions
- 14. Transitions DONT’S • Use wild transitions – Curtains
- 15. Transitions DONT’S • Use wild transitions – Curtains – Fracture
- 16. Transitions DONT’S • Use wild transitions – Curtains – Fracture – Checkerboard
- 17. Transitions DONT’S Unless there is REASON – It’s distracting • Use multiple transitions – Looks messy and unprofessional
- 18. Transitions DO’S • Use simple transitions
- 19. Transitions DO’S • Use simple transitions – Crossfade and Dip to Black – Looks professional
- 20. Transitions DO’S • Use simple transitions – Crossfade and Dip to Black – Looks professional • Use one transition – Creates a sleek and unified video
- 21. Music • Music pulls the viewer in and allows them to feel the emotion the video is trying to convey. • Use Instrumental music – Music with words is often distracting, especially when including text or voiceovers. • Match the music to the vibe of your video – How-ToVideo – Positive and Up-beat – Serious and Professional
- 22. Using Text Appropriately • Do not use paragraphs or sentences in your video. • The brain processes visuals 60,000 times faster than it does text. • Our brains are wired to take in this visual content faster and more effectively than we are words. • Ninety percent of the information sent to our brains is visual, being trained to consume the visual content as quickly as possible
- 26. Smartphone Video Editing Apps • Adobe Premiere Clip • I-Movie • Magisto • Viddy • Movie Maker Filmmaker • Funimate
- 27. Helpful Links • FREE HD STOCKAND B-ROLL FOOTAGE – https://www.videezy.com – http://www.videvo.net – https://videos.pexels.com • FREE HD IMAGES AND STOCK PHOTOS – https://www.pexels.com – https://pixabay.com – http://www.freeimages.com • WHERETO GET MUSIC – http://freemusicarchive.org – https://www.audioblocks.com – http://www.bensound.com
- 28. More Helpful Links • UsingAdobe Premiere Clips – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjaPGhcdcF8 • ShootingVideo onYour Smartphone – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mplsuup0R74
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