Garry Edwards
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I'm a still photographer, and a specialised one at that, with a very narrow field of expertise.
However, I stupidly volunteered to create a series of "how to" videos for my youngest son, who is going to create a YouTube video on heavy machinery repairs. Because of physical distance, he's doing all or most of the filming himself and I'm doing the editing.
The backstory here is that he's bought quite a few old agricultural machines, following the death of a friend. His family sold them for scrap and he bought them from the scrappy, with the intention of rescuing them.
So far, he's got some great footage with his iphone, remarkable quality, and he also now has some extra cameras, a gimbal and sound.
I'm a beginner at editing. Before I retired we made a series of videos, but I delegated the editing to someone younger and cleverer than I, and was only involved with making sure that the content was right.. The editing doesn't seem to be as difficult as I expected. I started off using Premier Pro, not the easiest interface but learnable, but when I tried to render and export it constantly failed. Sometimes it came up with a vague error message, sometimes it just crashed and closed the programme. According to YouTube vidoes, that's a common problem with multiple possible causes, so I gave up, after first checking that I had the latest graphics card driver installed, life is just too short to waste on frustration.
I moved over to Photoshop, which of course is a programme that I know fairly well. It doesn't have as many bells and whistles but it does seem to have everything that I need.
Any comments or suggestions from people who know more than I do (that's everyone) would be appreciated.
However, I stupidly volunteered to create a series of "how to" videos for my youngest son, who is going to create a YouTube video on heavy machinery repairs. Because of physical distance, he's doing all or most of the filming himself and I'm doing the editing.
The backstory here is that he's bought quite a few old agricultural machines, following the death of a friend. His family sold them for scrap and he bought them from the scrappy, with the intention of rescuing them.
So far, he's got some great footage with his iphone, remarkable quality, and he also now has some extra cameras, a gimbal and sound.
I'm a beginner at editing. Before I retired we made a series of videos, but I delegated the editing to someone younger and cleverer than I, and was only involved with making sure that the content was right.. The editing doesn't seem to be as difficult as I expected. I started off using Premier Pro, not the easiest interface but learnable, but when I tried to render and export it constantly failed. Sometimes it came up with a vague error message, sometimes it just crashed and closed the programme. According to YouTube vidoes, that's a common problem with multiple possible causes, so I gave up, after first checking that I had the latest graphics card driver installed, life is just too short to waste on frustration.
I moved over to Photoshop, which of course is a programme that I know fairly well. It doesn't have as many bells and whistles but it does seem to have everything that I need.
Any comments or suggestions from people who know more than I do (that's everyone) would be appreciated.