Post Production

Budget Video Editing and Gaming Laptop

Acer Nitro 5 AN515-45-R92M Gaming Laptop, AMD Ryzen 7 5800H (8-Core) | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU |15.6" FHD 144Hz IPS Display | 16GB DDR4 | 512GB NVMe SSD | WiFi 6 | RGB Backlit Keyboard The Nitro 5 is a great budget gaming laptop which would also be great...

Adobe Rush Cross Platform Video Editing Software

Adobe Rush is cross platform including phones, Mac and PC desktops. Like any good editing program Rush allows multiple video layers. It supports a wide variety of file types and cameras. Adobe Rush can make titles and animated titles. Rush includes all the important...

Cut On Motion

Cut On Motion

To cut on motion means that the subject in Shot #1 is in motion at the out point of the edit and another subject in Shot #2 is in motion at its in point, so that both subjects are in motion at the edit point. Cutting on motion can cover a multitude of editing problems...

Ten Commandments of Video Editing

1. Thou shalt not screw up thy client's job. 2. Thou shalt saveth thy project every ten minutes. 3. Thou shalt backup all sources, masters, and EDLs in more than one place so that thy precious video might be saved from eternal loss. 4. Honor thy Almighty Vectorscope...

Microsoft’s New Video Editing App

Microsoft’s New Video Editing App

Windows Movie Maker returns. Not really, but Microsoft did acquire an editing program called Clipchamp and they now include it with Windows 11. Clipchamp has a timeline just like Adobe Premier and all the others. This is a browser-based app. It can do trimming,...

Desaturated Gray Movies

Why do so many movies look like they were filmed in gray without any colors? Over the last 20 or 30 years, films and TV have been presented in a gray desaturated palate. This dull filter covers every scene and movie no matter what the story. This look is created by...

ISOBuster Recovery Works

ISOBuster is data recovery software for Windows that has been around for a long time, but it is regularly updated and users love it. I was recently transferring some client-made DVDs to MPG4 when I discovered a number of the disks could not be read by any machine. I...

Transcoding Footage And Proxy Editing

It is common to find 4K and other high end video formats on phones, drones and video cameras. These files are very large and include so much information that they put a real on an editing computer and slow it down. So we work with proxies, or proxy files which are...

Video Editing Prep

Video is now 82% of all internet traffic. There are 50 million people in this creator economy. You can see their work on YouTube, Twitch and TikTok. Video clearly has the power to influence, inspire, and teach. Whether the raw elements are created with DSLR cameras,...

Create Smooth Slow Motion In Post

The best way to create high quality slow motion is by shooting the subject at a high frame rate. But if your camera cannot do that, there are some free tools that allow you to create smooth slow motion in post. And this is much higher quality than many video editing...