HOW TO SAVE YOUR IN VIDEO EDITING

DON'T BE SCARED OF EDITING

 Just jump in and do your best. As long as you remember to save the original file you’ll have no problem! Even without a lot of video editing experience, anyone can create a professional-looking video if they just follow the right principles. Before long you’ll be an editing pro!

HAVE A MENTAL IMAGE

Have a mental image of how you want your finished video to look, before you shoot any video. This will help a lot in deciding what shots to take and what shots not to take. It’ll help you determine what kind of equipment you need, what kind of assistance you need and it’ll help you set your budget. By knowing exactly what you want in the end, you’ll avoid the all-too-common problem of not having one shot and having to get all the equipment out again just to take that one shot. Sometimes when that happens the whole video get scrapped because we have run out of 

LEARN THE BASICS OF SHOOTING VIDEO

No matter how good your editing is, you can’t make shoddy film look like great film. One of the “secrets” to video editing is starting with good footage to begin with. While you don’t need to take a 6-month course in cinematography, it can really help to read up on the basics of how to hold a camera, how to pan a camera, different angles yo can use and how to take different kinds of shots.

DON'T USE TOO MANY TRANSITIONS

One beginner mistake is to use too many different kind of transition especially flashy ones. Airplanes flying in and wiping out the screen, the first scene exploding into the second scene, etc. are effects that can be used occasionally. Your videos will actually look a lot more professional if you just used crossfades, fade-to-black or fade-to-whites. The simple cut is still the most used transition. Pick one and stick to it.

BREAK UP YOUR VIDEO

If you’re shooting informational videos for DVDs or online lessons, break up your videos. Anytime you switch to a new topic, fade to black and show a title shot for 3-5 seconds with the title to the next section. This helps break up the clip and prevents people from feeling like they’ve been sitting and watching the same video for 20 minutes. Instead, they can feel like they’ve been watching 4 different interesting 5 minute clips.