Tips with Editing Software

OK guys. Some people have been asking me about some of my secrets about how I make my videos look like movie quality. There are two easy steps to get you on your way. These steps are super easy and they take less than 2 minutes to do. First of all, when you start you’re editing project; put your fps (frames per second) to NTSC DV 24p (720x480, 23.976 fps). The pixels at this point really doesn’t matter, and if you are wanting wide screen the just do the same format but choose the widescreen format. All that really matters at this point is the 23.976 fps. It’s the standard for all movie companies. This will help you with the look of the video, but it’s not all you need to do. You should also use color corrector and secondary color corrector. These are both important to make your images pop. If used remember, you lose the color red when you record. It dulls out and it is not as vibrant as it should be.  Red will be most needed color to be put back into the video, then green and finally blue. All these things are important, but the most important is red.  When doing this you will have to play around with what color look best suits you and your audience. 

Notice the difference. The greens are greener and the red clay comes out better. The sky is a bit more crisper. This is just images that I found on the internet. I took like 1 minute to look and fix this. You can do the same, but be sure to take your time. As you can see it is a bit over colored, but I did that to show you the effect of what could be done. 

I hope this all helps you out in your future video quests.