It's been quite a while since I've posted... I started a draft of a basic Sony Vegas Pro tutorial but haven't been working on it. To be honest, I often forget that I even have this blog. :P But I like teaching people about video editing and I like talking about my own experiences with it and how I do things, so hopefully I'll be able to remember more often.
In the meantime, I've been writing down a ton of "symptoms" that I think a lot of YTPers experience - I know I do - in one of my notebooks during church, just out of boredom. Today I got the idea to post what I have so far on here, so I shall do just that.
You know you're a YouTube Pooper when...
-You can't watch anything without thinking of everything you can do to it
-People often give you strange looks because you think of new spoof ideas in public and laugh to yourself
-You amuse yourself at otherwise boring social events by thinking of ways to edit other people's conversations, and you wish you had recordings of them
-You think of so many spoof ideas that you don't even remember, let alone get around to making, all of them
-You quote YTPs, even the heavily edited ones with impossible vocal sounds
-You download random things from the Internet because you just know they'll be good YTP material, even if you don't know exactly what you'll use them for yet
-You have a million unfinished projects and are always starting new ones
-Video material takes up most of your computer space and you've been meaning to clean it out for a while
-Random spoofs and sounds from YTPs pop into your head at random times and sometimes result in you bursting out laughing for no apparent reason
-You record quotes and sounds off TV to use in YTPs (well, I could do this when we had DirecTV, but now we have Vios which you can't watch on a computer *grrrr*)
-You were upset when the Nickelodeon shows were removed from Netflix because they have so much YTP material
-Downloaders, converters and recording software are your best friends
-You've tried to imagine what it would be like if real life were like a YTP
-You have a growing collection of GIFs, sound effects and random music that you never delete in case you ever want to use it again
-You consider YTP an art form
-You question the sense of humor of people who don't laugh at YTPs
-You hate copyright and have sworn to fight it until your dying day
-Your Videos folder is a hopeless mess
-You've seen too many YTPs of politicians to take any of them seriously
-You'll never watch Spongebob, Blue's Clues, etc. the same way again
-You refer to original content as "unpooped"
-You know who Michael Rosen is
-You're familiar with converters, different file types, vocoders, etc. and your relatives think you're a computer genius
-You want to reverse, G-major, and vocode absolutely everything
-You are thrilled when your favorite YTPers subscribe to you (but you try to hide your excitement online so you won't look lame)
-You YTP videos of people you know and show them
-You refer to all funny video editing as "pooping"
-Most of the computer-related stuff you say to people goes right over their heads
-You know and appreciate the hard work and dedication that goes into a quality YTP
-Advanced software like Sony Vegas Pro makes you feel omnipotent (especially when you learn how to use it... haha)
That about sums it up. If I think of more, I'll post them in a new entry.
Sunday, January 26, 2014
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Tutorial for beginners
Here I will show the basics of video editing for anyone who's just getting started.
What you'll need:
Windows Movie Maker
The video(s) you want to edit, and any pictures or music you want to add
YouTube Downloader, if you don't have any material
First, open up Windows Movie Maker, which should have come with your computer. If not, you can download it here. I recommend version 6.0 because the quality of the finished product is better, but if it's incompatible with your operating system you can get 2.1.
Once you have Movie Maker up, import your video(s) into it by clicking the Import button on the left and finding the files you want to use. It's a good idea store them all in your Videos folder. It will look like this (here you can see material I'm using, lol):
If there's an error, check to see if the file is an .mp4, .flv or QuickTime movie. Windows Movie Maker doesn't accept those formats, so you'll need to use YouTube Downloader to convert them. I recommend the .avi format if you have Windows 7, otherwise the video might not publish.
Once you have your media imported, drag what you want to use into the timeline (which you can change to a storyboard, but I find timeline much easier). Once it's in there you can edit it many different ways.
If you just want to use a few small clips of the media, you can split or trim it. The split button is on the far right of the preview window. Using the preview window, find the place you want to cut (you can go frame-by-frame by clicking on the buttons beside the play/pause button) and the click the split button.
You now have more clips to work with.
Trimming is different from splitting. To trim, you take hold of the beginning or end of the clip and drag it. Any part you drag past is removed - but if you shorten the clip by trimming, you can re-extend it to get the material back. You can't extend clips after splitting them, although you can press Ctrl+Z to undo the split (and anything else you do).
There are a variety of effects you can add to your clips as well. Right-click on the clip you want to edit and click Effects, choose what you want to do to it and click Add. You can add up to six effects to each clip.
You can add music or other audio by simply dragging an audio file to the audio track below the video track.
If you want to completely dub over the video clip with the audio, expand the video track by clicking the plus sign to the left of the track, then right-click on the tiny audio track that appears, and click Mute.
You can put captions on your video by clicking "Titles and Credits" to the left, under Edit. Select the type you want to do and write your caption, then click Add Title. You can also change the color, font, size and animation of the text. It will go in the small track under the audio.
Once your video is finished, click This Computer under Publish, or Publish under Finish Video (I think) if you have Windows Movie Maker 2.6. This will turn your project into a video file that you can upload to websites like YouTube and Facebook.
The first time I made a video - a slideshow of screencaps from The Aristocats, which is still up on YouTube - I didn't know I had to publish it first, and I tried to upload the WMM project file to YouTube instead. XD As you can imagine, it didn't work, but I figured out that I needed to publish it.
All in all, video editing is easy once you know how to work with your software and videos. I'm not sure if I've covered everything in this tutorial, but it's just a basic one and I'm sure anyone who reads it will figure it out. :)
What you'll need:
Windows Movie Maker
The video(s) you want to edit, and any pictures or music you want to add
YouTube Downloader, if you don't have any material
First, open up Windows Movie Maker, which should have come with your computer. If not, you can download it here. I recommend version 6.0 because the quality of the finished product is better, but if it's incompatible with your operating system you can get 2.1.
Once you have Movie Maker up, import your video(s) into it by clicking the Import button on the left and finding the files you want to use. It's a good idea store them all in your Videos folder. It will look like this (here you can see material I'm using, lol):
If there's an error, check to see if the file is an .mp4, .flv or QuickTime movie. Windows Movie Maker doesn't accept those formats, so you'll need to use YouTube Downloader to convert them. I recommend the .avi format if you have Windows 7, otherwise the video might not publish.
Once you have your media imported, drag what you want to use into the timeline (which you can change to a storyboard, but I find timeline much easier). Once it's in there you can edit it many different ways.
If you just want to use a few small clips of the media, you can split or trim it. The split button is on the far right of the preview window. Using the preview window, find the place you want to cut (you can go frame-by-frame by clicking on the buttons beside the play/pause button) and the click the split button.
You now have more clips to work with.
Trimming is different from splitting. To trim, you take hold of the beginning or end of the clip and drag it. Any part you drag past is removed - but if you shorten the clip by trimming, you can re-extend it to get the material back. You can't extend clips after splitting them, although you can press Ctrl+Z to undo the split (and anything else you do).
There are a variety of effects you can add to your clips as well. Right-click on the clip you want to edit and click Effects, choose what you want to do to it and click Add. You can add up to six effects to each clip.
You can add music or other audio by simply dragging an audio file to the audio track below the video track.
If you want to completely dub over the video clip with the audio, expand the video track by clicking the plus sign to the left of the track, then right-click on the tiny audio track that appears, and click Mute.
You can put captions on your video by clicking "Titles and Credits" to the left, under Edit. Select the type you want to do and write your caption, then click Add Title. You can also change the color, font, size and animation of the text. It will go in the small track under the audio.
Once your video is finished, click This Computer under Publish, or Publish under Finish Video (I think) if you have Windows Movie Maker 2.6. This will turn your project into a video file that you can upload to websites like YouTube and Facebook.
The first time I made a video - a slideshow of screencaps from The Aristocats, which is still up on YouTube - I didn't know I had to publish it first, and I tried to upload the WMM project file to YouTube instead. XD As you can imagine, it didn't work, but I figured out that I needed to publish it.
All in all, video editing is easy once you know how to work with your software and videos. I'm not sure if I've covered everything in this tutorial, but it's just a basic one and I'm sure anyone who reads it will figure it out. :)
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