Can I help anyone with video editing?

[Garry Edwards]

Long story. I'm still at the beginner stage but I've now involved myself in video editing. One of my sons, a specialist agricultural mechanic, has started making a YouTube video channel on his work with a series of "how to" videos, starting with the rescue and complete restoration of a heavy track loader that he bought from a scrapyard.

But it's now stalled, because he can only do this when he has time away from his daily (paid) work, and I'm sat here twiddling my thumbs, waiting for more material

Add into the mix the fact that I've now been diagnosed with a heart condition, which means that I'm now pretty much confined to sitting around at home, at least until the consultant tells me otherwise

So, if anyone wants any help with editing, I'm pleased to help. But not music videos, because that's beyond me, but pretty much anything else should be possible. Don't expect miracles from me because my experience is limited, but I'm not totally incapable, have a very high-spec computer setup and run Premier Pro. I'm also competent with both Photoshop and Audacity.

 

[TimHughes]

@Garry Edwards I hope you can get the heart condition treated soon! I do have a video that's a bit stuck due to the sudden passing of my brother, but it's a music one. If anything else comes up I'll let you know. Best wishes, Tim

 

[gramps]

I've now been diagnosed with a heart condition

Sorry to hear that Garry but you will be pleased to know that there is (an active) life beyond the armchair.

 

[Garry Edwards]

@Garry Edwards I hope you can get the heart condition treated soon! I do have a video that's a bit stuck due to the sudden passing of my brother, but it's a music one. If anything else comes up I'll let you know. Best wishes, Tim

Thanks Tim. I read about your brother and I'm very sorry to hear it. I normally spend a lot of time on our farm, doing general labouring work, working the fields with tractors etc,, towing trailers around and so on. But I haven't got much common sense and know that I won't be able to restrict myself to driving jobs, watching other people do the heavy work, so I need to stay away until things get sorted out.

Sorry to hear that Garry but you will be pleased to know that there is (an active) life beyond the armchair.

Yes, I just need to learn how to live a different lifestyle. A mild heart attack isn't going to stop me, but I do need to listen to expert advice and make changes.

 

[realspeed]

I actually find that editing my videos is part of the enjoyment of taking a video in the first placed. Not just putting video clips together that is the easy bit, it is adding the "extras" like headings- fadingin/out and adding a royality free sound track etc even split screen- turning into old time movie style
example focus lens clicks spoilt it really but that is part of the learning curve. I will never use a DSLR camera again for videos

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yto9he6qMs

 

[Garry Edwards]

I actually find that editing my videos is part of the enjoyment of taking a video in the first placed. Not just putting video clips together that is the easy bit, it is adding the "extras" like headings- fadingin/out and adding a royality free sound track etc even split screen- turning into old time movie style
example focus lens clicks spoilt it really but that is part of the learning curve. I will never use a DSLR camera again for videos

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yto9he6qMs

Well, we're all different. For me, it's lighting first, camera positions (multiple cameras) and angles second, followed by the various other technical aspects, and finally editing, I learned at lot when I lit TV commercials, a typical 30-second one would take about 12 days with a large team, all of whom were experts in their specialised fields - with the exception perhaps of the creative director and his various assistants and the other hangers-on from the ad agency who were having an "awayday" at the client's expense. But I never got to see the editing side, the closest I ever got to that was watching the live editing in the Blue Peter studio, which was brilliant, with a team of eight all working together as one.

But, I'm enjoying editing my son's videos. He isn't the greatest presenter - long gaps in dialogue, when he remembers it at all, and very boring sequences that need to be fully
shown, such as removing a bolt that's been rusted in place for over 20 years without damaging it, and that's when being able to create 4 different camera positions from one can hold the viewer's attention and make it look like a professional production, not a tradesman working on his own with (initially anyway) just a single iphone on a tripod.

The intention is to monetise his channel, and as most of his competition consists of redneck Americans shouting "Yeeehahh" every time they fix something by hitting it with a sledgehammer, it should work.

But, back to the topic, I have the time and resources needed and like to keep busy, so if anyone wants any editing help. . .

 

[realspeed]

I now video with a 4k camcorder Panasonic HC-X1500 and the higher formats such as MOV do require editing suites such as Wondershare Filamor11 or Movavi to edit with then have to be converted to MP4 to go onto youtube which may reduce file format even further. Seeing aMOV format video on a 4k monitor is something else.
Doing a split screen took some working out. one half in IR the other as the camcorder wold see normally

View: https://youtu.be/_1AWnBcoUQE

 

[Pound Coin]

Hi, for restoration videos, I love Project Binky, not sure if you are familiar with them (putting a Celica 4x4 drive chain in an old mini ) but their production is quite engaging.

 

[Garry Edwards]

Hi, for restoration videos, I love Project Binky, not sure if you are familiar with them (putting a Celica 4x4 drive chain in an old mini ) but their production is quite engaging.

Very familiar, very good tradesmen and interesting subject, and their video skills have improved immeasurably over time. They must be coining it in, and good luck to them.

My son's videos are going to be more specialised, but more practicable, i.e. they're about rescuing (a series of) old machines rather than up-speccing them. Just as a silly example, when a machine has a max speed of 4.8 miles per hour you don't need to upgrade the brakes . . .