The 73 Awesome Tips to Edit Videos

By Rodrigo Benini

The demand for online video continues to grow dramatically.
As a result of this demand, agencies, brands, marketers, videographers and small businesses around the world are looking for ways to create more engaging videos, capable of playing a wide variety of viewers.
This book will help you edit your videos in a professional manner.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: May 4, 2014
• ISBN: 9781312164376

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The 73 Awesome Tips to Edit Videos

The 73 Awesome Tips to Edit Videos!

The demand for online video continues to grow dramatically . According to Comscore , during the month of October, in the U.S. alone , 189 million people watched 49.1 videos billions online content , while the number of videos online advertising totaled 24.5 billion .

As a result of this demand , agencies , brands , marketers , videographers and small businesses around the world are looking for ways to create more engaging videos , capable of playing a wide variety of viewers .

One of the most basic tips ( and cited more often ) to create videos that engage the viewer emotionally is : tell a compelling story . In an era where video content vying for shrinking viewer's attention , seduced by the last application or game on your smartphone , this is good advice . But tell a compelling story quickly is an even better advice.

Anyone starting with video editing is faced with a large number of tools at their disposal to help in the creation of stories , and the integration of music and audio is among one of the most important things to achieve this .

These amazing tips can help you to edit your videos in a professional manner .

Happy reading !

1- Adding narration to a video

Where possible the first tip is to write the text to be spoken, then burn it and then take it to the editing program. Thus, it is much easier to adjust the pictures that has to do the narration in real time (watching the images). Although in some cases the narration in real time is what really want to make, in many others it may be easier to edit with previously recorded content.

2- Adjust brightness / contrast details in the image x

Overexposed or underexposed images, for being too bright / dark lack of details, which are usually formed by halftones. If the moment of capture the automatic exposure adjustment was used, this usually does not occur to the picture as a whole, but to parts of it. Moreover, with manual adjustments, can occur throughout the image has been completely clear or completely dark. When this occurs, you can adjust the brightness / contrast of the same, through existing in most editing programs controls. This operation usually reveals details in the images almost hidden due to overexposure or underexposure. However, the lighter or darker the image or stretch it, the harder it is to recover the details therein by manipulating the brightness / contrast. That's because these adjustments try to expand the gap between light / dark pixels in the image, so in an attempt to recover lost details of the definition. However, if the image is too light or too dark then there is practically no difference which can be enlarged. Thus, you can not retrieve it during the editing process. The trick is to avoid these extremes of exposure as during capture on camera, knowing that it will be virtually impossible recovery in post-production.

3- Color adjustment, effects

During the