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Personally, post-production is the part I enjoy most. You take your media assets and assemble, edit, and polish them into the video that your audience will experience.
You will finish this part of the process when you are
satistfied with it or until it is due, whichever comes first. We are
going to call this the director's cut. In the Hollywood world, they
have for a long time circulated privately for many of the feature films
that ran in the movie theaters. The Internet world, of course, has
endless potential for various versions of videos to circulate and later
to get mixed into other videos.
Most of the videos on YouTube are edited with Windows Movie Maker. Its big advantage is that is comes free on almost all computers that have the Windows operating system, and it is available as a free download from Microsoft for everyone else. Its big disadvantage is its limited options. For example, if you want to do anything at all complicated with music and voice, you need a separate audio editor. Most people use Audacity because it is free and very powerful.
Getting started with Movie Maker
At the other end of the spectrum is Apple's Final Cut. Some of the first-run feature films that you might have seen at the Regal were edited with Final Cut, so its big advantage is its power and amazing array of options. Its big disadvantage is its high price, $999 at the Apple Store. That's for the whole suite because, like Movie Maker, Final Cut is best used with some other software, included in Final Cut Studio:
Getting started with Premiere Elements and Final Cut
In addition, you may find it helpful, depending on your project, to edit some still images before you import them into your video editor.
Your video needs to have a title and perhaps some other information at the beginning and credits at the end, sort of like book covers or the handshake at the beginning and end of a business encounter.
Opening title sequenceAt a minimum, you should display the video's title in your opening sequence. If you look at just the beginnings of YouTube videos, you will see a variety of approaches to this opening sequence. Here's a video with the title and the maker's name. The title starts over black and remains for a few seconds after the video itself begins. America, I Miss You
So an even more elaborate opening includes the names
of
the cast and production team, information that is more often in closing
credits and may be in both places. These folks had the budget for some
fancy animation. You can use video that you shot and may or may not
have used in the body of the video. openings |
Closing credits sequenceThis should tell us where you got your media
assets if you didn't make them yourself. In the case of the music,
identify the titles and musicians. The closing credits are also an
opportunity to thank the people who helped you, cast, crew, or just
inspiration. They are also a good place to put a date and a copyright
notice if you are concerned about such things. closings America's Funniest Home Videos End Credits 1993 It seems like a good idea at the time opening and closing |
short video using special effects - Billy Collins' Forgetfulness
Blender -- free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems
First Light Movies How to Make a Film - funds and inspires young people, throughout the UK, to make films reflecting the diversity of their lives. - Lora
MonkeySee's Produce Your Own How-To Video - watch all nine of the videos yourself but show us just six or seven minutes of highlights.
Blade, visual novel engine
Blender and Elephants Dream -
Torley's Guide to Making Movies (machinima in Second Life) - Tutorials and Tips and Tricks
Short Courses' On-line Library of Digital Photography - Digital Desktop Studio Photography -
Video Maker's Production
Video Maker's Post-Production -
Video Maker's Distribution
Izzy Video - the video podcast that shows you how to shoot and edit better video - show us six or seven minutes of highlights -
Computer Arts' tutorial on Making a Music Video - download the .pdf and show us some highlights -
Computer Arts' tutorial onAnimating a Logo - download the .pdf and show us some highlights
Instructable's Video Camera Mount for Bicycle and Bicycle Camera Mount for under $1 -
Howcast - how-to
videos, including videos about how to
make videos -
plug-in / add-on for
Firefox and Internet Explorer
http://www.downloadhelper.net/
http://ie-downloadhelper.com/
Web sites
http://downloadyoutubevideo.org/
http://keepvid.com/
http://saveyoutube.com/
http://zamzar.com/
Atomic Learning's MovieMaker 2 tutorials - lighting -
Microsoft's Make your first movie -
WindowsMoviemakers.net Tutorials -
pick a couple of advanced topics that look interesting to you
iMovie - from these several dozen video tutorials, pick seven or eight minutes of highlights
Creative Cow's Final Cut Pro tutorials - Gradient Wipe Transition
Creative Cow's Final Cut Pro tutorials - Correcting White Balance
Creative Cow's Final Cut Pro tutorials - Setting up a multi-cam edit
YouTube's Final Cut Pro tutorials
Ken Stone's green
screening techniques
Genius DV's Final
Cut Pro tutorials
Titles and credits:
Using
Boris 3d in final cut pro
Title
crawl with glow effect
Freeze frame effect with camera flash
WonderHow's Final Cut how-to videos - manage text - correct the exposure
Audacity video tutorials from Google Video -- show us highlights
- SchoolTube.com and their video production resources
- Fix
Picture's Resize or
Convert Images -
[ to come ]
Muvee's Autoproducer and Reveal - try the free trial -
FXhome's EffectsLab Pro - examples
Pixelan's SpiceFX for MovieMaker
Wondertouch's fx software - download the free trial.
CCMixter.org - "download, sample, cut-up, share" - “You already have permission…”.
browse the
samples, download what you want to your project folder, import the
file into Final Cut, edit as you would any other clip.
Remember to give credit to the composer!
CCMixter has a new function called "Dig" ccMixter Music Discovery
It has a section just for Instrumental
Music for Film and Video. Click on "Advanced dig"
Google search results for free sound effects
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