AoD_Talons wrote:So what the goal is is to make videos for our business site. the 2 cameras we have used /are using are some type cannon not sure the exact model just know its not a handicam model. and go pro or other type of small go pro like camera. wanted to make videos (final product) as professional looking as possible for youtube and our website. haven't uploaded videos to the website yet so i dont know if its the same as just re uploading a youtube formated video or something different.
So really, it doesn't matter which version you need to get. Just get the newest version. Don't bother with Studio, yet. Free is fine.
The cameras you have are probably fine, too. If your cameras output some really weird format, you'll want Shutter Encoder which is really just a convenient front-end for ffmpeg, which can turn any media format into any other media format.
What you *will* need to do is this - you will need to hit Youtube and learn about techniques for shooting and lighting to get the best out of the kit you have, and how to put together a coherent video. If you work through the BMD training material like stuff like the vegan cafe, and the T-shirt shop clips, that'll put you in a good place for seeing how the shots interact.
The one-minute "make my editing not look silly" tricks are - try to match eyelines between shots so you don't take your viewer's eye off the subjects, try to cut between two very different shots (like don't go from a closeup to a little bit wider, go really wide), and cut on movement - don't show me standing up then cut to me walking, cut as I'm halfway out of my seat. Oh, and don't use transitions, except maybe lap dissolves, unless you really really mean it. If you're going for a "special effects" transition make it a big lairy rainbow star wipe or something, with an ironic little eyeroll, you cheese monster.
The one-minute "make my shooting not look silly tricks are - get all the "safe" stuff first before you get creative, point the camera at the person you're shooting with the lens at their eye height and sit beside it with your eyes at lens height, so they're talking to you and the viewer is sitting beside you, and don't "cross the line" - if something is moving left to right across the shot, it should be moving left to right in the next shot unless it genuinely has turned around and is coming back this way again. Oh, and stay off the zoom. Keep your shots fairly static and "boring". If you're going to zoom, pick something to "pivot" on and try to pan to keep it the same distance from the edge of the screen as you zoom in, because if you just zoom straight into the middle it feels like you've grabbed me by the back of the head and shoved me forwards into the scene. Zoom in, focus, zoom out, keep the focus on manual. Or, through it on Auto Lock and hope for the best!
You know what? Whatever you've shot will probably edit up into something just fine.
Tue Mar 14, 2023 4:48 pm
