Effective video making

[andygates]

I just taped my camera to my helmet

Arch's point about big text is spot on. Huge: fill the frame if you're putting it on Youtube; this is not a widescreen movie with a hundred names on screen.

Ditto the bit about cutting out waiting-at-lights faff. It's easy enough in Movie Maker to edit out a chunk of wait time and use a fade between the two sections just like they do on proper telly.

So far I've left the sound on, decided it was crap, and muted it, replacing it with a random track from my MP3 collection.

 

[CopperBrompton]

We were always told it's like "killing your own baby". Now I have children I'd disagree

Yeah, there's typically less police involvement with video editing.

Ben

 

[glen]

Have any of you tried Virtualdub to edit your videos? It's a free video editing program. Available here
http://www.virtualdub.org/
I use it a lot to edit AVI files.