Learn Your Craft

[Ky Lives]

I know some channels are huge with low quality videos but I think it is really important to learn your craft. If you're making your own videos I recommend watching as many tutorials as you can on filmmaking. There's so many good free ones. Videocopilot is one but it's for After Effects which most beginners will hate because it feels like it chews up a lot of your time, but if you learn your hotkeys and shortcuts and edit in low resolution it is one of the best pieces of software available in that price range.

Tons of beginners use Final Cut. If you want to use Final Cut the old versions are better. The new Final Cut may as well be iMovie in my opinion.

You can edit in Windows Movie Maker if that works for you but getting some decent software will definitely increase your video quality and probably reduce your stress levels (after you learn to use them)

 

[SquaresOfMadness]

Yes! Spending the time to actually learn how to properly use good editing software (and keyboard shortcuts) is the best thing you can do. Adobe Premiere Pro probably added several years to my life because of the lowered stress levels.

I'd also recommend that people learn about video/audio codecs, bit rates, frame rates, aspect ratios, etc. since having a solid foundation in the technical aspects of video making seems to be overlooked by a lot of people.

 

[JohnKenShow]

I know some channels are huge with low quality videos but I think it is really important to learn your craft. If you're making your own videos I recommend watching as many tutorials as you can on filmmaking. There's so many good free ones. Videocopilot is one but it's for After Effects which most beginners will hate because it feels like it chews up a lot of your time, but if you learn your hotkeys and shortcuts and edit in low resolution it is one of the best pieces of software available in that price range.

Tons of beginners use Final Cut. If you want to use Final Cut the old versions are better. The new Final Cut may as well be iMovie in my opinion.

You can edit in Windows Movie Maker if that works for you but getting some decent software will definitely increase your video quality and probably reduce your stress levels (after you learn to use them)

Well said sir. I could not have said it better. It is always a good idea to learn more and continue to grow in ones craft. Keep moving in the right direction.

 

[Ky Lives]

Yes! Spending the time to actually learn how to properly use good editing software (and keyboard shortcuts) is the best thing you can do. Adobe Premiere Pro probably added several years to my life because of the lowered stress levels.

I'd also recommend that people learn about video/audio codecs, bit rates, frame rates, aspect ratios, etc. since having a solid foundation in the technical aspects of video making seems to be overlooked by a lot of people.

Thanks!

Those additional points are probably even more important. You could make the best video in the world and render it in sub par quality if you didn't learn about your codecs etc. I am pretty sure most of us would be rendering .h264 video / 128kbs aac for audio? And if you're using a DLSR your frame rate will range from 24-30 fps usually and almost always 16:9 ratio. Some handycams still record at 4:3. Hopefully this info helps. If these figures don't make sense go Googling for a bit or watch a "render" tutorial.