The DIY Video Editor

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The DIY Video EditorVideoThe Friday Roundup – Camera Setups for Different Situations One Small Camera Setup for Several Different Jobs One of the complications with making different types of videos is the feeling that each one needs its own collection of equipment.

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The DIY Video EditorVideoThe Friday Roundup – Cinematic Tips and Fast Lighting Setups The Cheat Code to make Any Scene look Cinematic I wanted to add a big of a longer blurb here for the video this week from Tim Runia.

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The DIY Video EditorVideoThe Friday Roundup – Smartphone Vlogging and AI Short Videos Source: Deposit Photos How to Film a Vlog on Your Smartphone (Start to Finish) One of the problems many people face when delving into the world of creating a vlog is that they see other vlogs and…

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The DIY Video EditorVideoThe Friday Roundup – Music That Fits and Looking Professional Source: Deposit Photos You’re Using Music Wrong in your Videos (here’s how to fix it) Selecting the right music to fill the background of your videos, or to add moments that enhance the emotion you…

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The DIY Video EditorVideoThe Friday Roundup – Composition Tips and Writing Scripts Source: Deposit Photos Master Smartphone Composition in 20 Minutes Every time a phone or camera manufacturer releases a new product or an updated version of an existing one, they have one goal in…

10.09

The DIY Video EditorVideoThe Friday Roundup – Movavi Video Editor 2027 and more How to Hook Viewers with a Text Intro – Movavi Ideas Well the big news for this week… amongst others, is that Movavi have released their 2027 version of their newbie friendly video editing app.

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The DIY Video EditorVideoThe Friday Roundup – Audience Retention and Engagement Tips Source: Deposit Photos This One Change Fixed Five Things In My Real Life It’s the little details that make all the difference when it comes to presenting on camera.

09.25

The DIY Video EditorVideoThe Friday Roundup – Workflow Best Practices and YouTube Tips Source: Deposit Photos How Professionals Edit Videos – Workflow Best Practices Whether you’re editing in DaVinci Resolve or any other video editing software, there is a certain sequence that should…

09.18

The DIY Video EditorVideoThe Friday Roundup – And All You Gotta Do is… Act Naturally! Source: Deposit Photos 3 Major Hacks to Talk Naturally In Front Of The Camera One of the best ways to deliver a talking head video to your audience is by using a teleprompter.

09.11

The DIY Video EditorVideoThe Friday Roundup – How to Stand Out and Instagram Edits This One Change Makes You The Easiest Thing To Look At On Screen This is a great tips video from Chris Goor again covering something a lot of people tend to miss in their videos.

09.04

The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo