Editing a Video

Editing a video.

Now that I have told you how to make a video, I will now tell you how to edit it.
Many of my friends in school asked me this so I have decided to share my secret.Let me tell you that when I started I used Windows Movie Maker. It is not good enough. Actually it is bad. You can’t do much with it.

It is not a professional video editing software that I think is the best to use.One of main professional video editing softwares are :

Final Cut Pro

Sony  Vegas Pro

Corel Paint Shop Pro

Corel Video Studio X Pro.
These were the four ones that I saw. All of them had the choice of a trial period (That is what I used) . Trial period one month. Now the word Pro being there does not necessarily mean it is going to be tough. Well some of them are but some of them are easy and fast to use.

I do not have a Mac computer so I could not get a chance to give a review of Final Cut Pro.

Sony Vegas Pro is an incredibly powerful editing software but at the same time it is not user friendly. It took me 3 weeks to get the basics and to do even better I would need 4-5 weeks to do more. Unless you have already gone to a photo school or have some experience I wouldn’t recommend it. Especially when making an overlay track is so tough.

Corel Paint Shop Pro is clearly more powerful than Sony Vegas. You can change backgrounds do a lot but mark my words – “ It is time taking.”. It gives you an incredible choice of edits and is a bit easy but it’ll take you 3 weeks if you want to do a good edited version. And if you are not doing some serious stuff like making a car blowing up, you could do the same thing in Corel Visual Studio X Pro in a day.

I recommend Corel Video Studio X Pro for anyone who just started and wants to make casual videos. It has a good GUI (Graphical User Interface) and you can learn it in a day. It took me five days to do the editing and my video after editing my videolooked like something else totally.

Some tips and tricks for editing:

-Keep a background music. It gets rid of the troubling back noises.

-Be write to the point. ( You have only four minutes)

-Don’t allow the background to be loud. It diminishes your voice.

-Keep a clip of what you are going to talk about. ( Just so the judges understand.)

-Finally keep an introductory clip.

Id like to end this blog by saying I am no expert. These are just some points I learnt through one month experience. 

I have won prizes in elocution so I know how one should talk but I am not a video maker. Hope these points help. They helped me through my video.

If you want to see some seriously good video editing see the Penguinmens video. Their editing is the best in entire  Moonbots 2012 . Also don’t be shy and show  your face at least once in the entire video.

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