Late-night dry run:How to learn video editing?

Q: How to really learn video editing?

It's about to be my freshman year, although I've enrolled in business administration but I've loved video editing since junior high school, and I feel like I'm getting a sense of fulfillment from the videos I've been holding by constantly adding music, effects, and text, and constantly putting them together, and I think it makes me feel a sense of fulfillment, and I think if my enthusiasm for it hasn't diminished after graduation, I'm going to get into the industry after not much more than eight or nine. I plan to utilize my free time in college to study this, I would like to ask, what do I need to study? I'd like to ask what I need to learn, and what I need to prepare for.

A: Very envious of the subject, envious of you before you go to college already like "video editing", I'm even more envious of your time is full of all kinds of resources and opportunities, because I was in junior high school that time in addition to watching other people make amazing Flash animation, I do not know anything.

--the envy of the scum is over, now step into the main topic--

a, in this day and age, tutorials, materials, templates, cases can be at your fingertips:

1, "tutorials" can help you to understand the basics of video production, post-production editing, for example, a variety of tracks, a variety of layers, a variety of compositions, a variety of tracks, a variety of layers, a variety of compositions, a variety of compositions, a variety of composites. A variety of tracks, a variety of layers, a variety of composites, a variety of key frames, a variety of relationships, the use of various software with each other, until you are able to integrate, at your fingertips.

2, and a video editor will have their own "library", the material can be pictures, can be video, can be music can also be text script.

So your computer configuration should be good enough, especially the hard disk has to be big enough. One of the first gameplay videos I rendered was less than 3 minutes long, and it took me all night! And you can't do anything while you're rendering, you even have to risk powering down and dying and rebooting.

3, "templates" need not be said, now a random search for anything, you can download some different templates to study, research others to do this template when the use of what methods, and then to study it, learn it, master it. As long as you learn the method, then DIY a template of your own will be very easy.

4, learn to study and analyze the "case" is a basic skill, for example, you look at a commercial, game footage, movie credits, etc., you can go to speculate on how it is done, with what software, with what means, and hypothetically imagine that you can imitate to do a similar one.

The most classic example of this is the "Wulin Outlaws" credits:

There are a lot of production methods on the Internet about this credits as well as the project files, and it's very simple to do it, so I'm not going to go into detail.

Second, on the use of what software, I recommend more learning and more use, not only to learn and to be used diligently, if not diligently used will be increasingly rusty, serious will make you lose the software and video editing ability to create and use.

I'm not specialized in this, only a little Vegas + AE + PS, 3D part will also be a little bit, I personally think to do some ordinary video is completely enough, at least my early years of game video, whether it is audio and video editing or special effects, are enough. And I have the following recommendations on the software part:

1, more learning and more use of practice makes perfect, more reference to more research and more attempts, do not understand can be on the Internet to ask the master;

2, although the software in particular, but I do not personally recommend the use of similar to the Acoustic Studio such as home fools software, this kind of software will make you lazy, not easy for you to progress. Even if you want to engage in the wedding industry in the future, can not be overly dependent on Acoustic Shadow and a variety of templates;

3, video editing involves a wide range of industries, different industries on the video requirements are different. For example, there is a clear difference between games and microfilm. Therefore, it is recommended that the subject should have some knowledge about the type of video, such as the creation process of game video, microfilm filming and editing process, the production process of MV, the production process of video animation, the production process of wedding filming and production process, the production process of corporate videos.

Time has changed, today's video editing software has gone from the traditional high threshold in the past to the full range of civilian-grade mobile, brought to use, feature-rich, such as Meow Movie Factory can meet the PC and mobile video editing use, it can meet the daily audio and video editing of the Vlogger and B station UP masters, but also to meet the needs of the gamers and the science and technology media to record the screen, and also through the special effect The built-in templates in the center create promos and exciting videos that are comparable to professional post-production, and if you often make ghost videos or game stomping videos, then Meow Shadow Factory's rhythmic stomping can also help you save a lot of time.

Taking the PC side (Windows) of Meowfilm as an example:

In order to adapt to the different video ratios of different playback terminals

It has a more convenient and intuitive editing window than the common video editing software in the market

Special effects, transitions, subtitles, spectra, timeline, no matter whether it's for the beginning and end of the film or the frame-by-frame editing, you can cope with it easily

If you don't know how to do special effects, you can do it easily.

If you don't know how to do special effects, then the rich and free library of special effects clips will be a boon to you

It should be noted that Meowfactory is a homegrown software, and the software's localized design and highly efficient productivity solutions are very suitable for the use of the Chinese, and I even think that the average user can uninstall Pr when they have installed Meowfactory.

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It can solve your problems in software usage and video editing.

Three, mentioned above, some of the software and small suggestions, this part of the focus on the video editing process need to pay attention to the place:

1, video production is not a "title + content + credits" so simple, a good idea (script) and excellent and innovative editing method is very colorful for the video itself.

For example, the Mango Channel's "Metamorphosis" may be a slow black-and-white replay of a few shots, accompanied by a section of "Piano Music at Night" or "river flows in you", which will instantly make these fragmented fragments of the past seem extraordinarily warm and touching.

And this, it is the video editing of an interpretation, an expression of the video editor is also a "director", we can use the software to edit to the music, so that the original boring and bland video has become very moving heart, so that people have to be for your excellent editing and the original material and the original screenplay of the deep understanding of the point of a compliment.

2. When I first taught myself how to edit video, I would be a fool to work on the credits and transitions, which is actually quite silly, especially if you have some effects or editing techniques that are very stiff, and it will look like your editing is a failure, in other words, very unprofessional.

I'm a self-taught video producer, and my understanding of it is: 'subtlety' + 'creativity' + 'sincerity'.

"Subtlety": I wanted to post a Vegas screenshot of a gameplay video I made a while back, but I forgot to frame the hard disk. Why am I taking subtlety out of the equation? Because I'm a very impatient person, and when I first made the video, I couldn't wait to render it and upload it to youtube earlier, but when my audience pointed out to me, I was nothing but ashamed. I remember the mistake was a subtitle error.

After that, I continued to make mistakes, but one at a time, I would get better at it.

I remember one time was when our game team was doing a game promo video (which was released in both PCG and Youku Gaming), and at that time, the deputy webmaster and I were dividing up the work, I was in charge of the scripting and editing of the video, and he was in charge of the filming. It was our first time working together, and we had to utilize 3 game servers and mobilize over 50 people, most of whom were inexperienced in acting.

But it was a huge success, from the creative angle of the script to the consistency of the editing and the soundtrack, which was more than anyone could have imagined. Of course what we're most proud of is that our firsthand release directly beat out our competitor, who was the first to use 720p HD, and who had more stable servers and a more technically attuned cast, only, they lost out on creativity and subtlety.

Our video had a high degree of integrity from the pre-production, to the recording process, and to the post-production, when we utilized our management staff to proofread the video and communicate their opinions. You should know that we compressed more than 400M video files to be in the QQ relay station rounds of transmission and proofreading, the workload is actually very large, and the upload speed of 50KB per second.

By the way, that competitor is now doing post in Mango station, 87 years of glasses brother, will you be reading this text I? Haha

In fact, if you need to work in the cloud with your coworkers, then try an audio/video production efficiency tool: minute-by-minute frames.

It's core features are online annotated video and audio; unlimited space and speed super cloud disk; audio and video material management; and collaborative review by the production team. With "frame-by-frame annotation" and "online preview of 4K video", beginners can quickly learn the editing skills and thinking of excellent editors, and master the core competency of editing - "editing tempo".

Whether you're doing private work or just doing your day-to-day job, collaborative editing is a very important part of your work, and the traditional editing process is very complicated and cumbersome, consuming a lot of time and repeated communication, costing a lot of money and being extremely inefficient. The Split-Second Frame helps me to solve this pain point.

In addition, it has a powerful material management function, in addition to the folder can be sorted by name, size, time, etc., but also through the drag-and-drop way to easily realize the project within the file version management, and even can be exported to the standard format of the list of changes in a key.

After all this, I just want to say the importance of 'subtlety', even a keyframe, even a subtitle position, even a font choice, even a soundtrack choice, can reflect the level of your editing. Because your audience doesn't understand your behind-the-scenes hard work, and only cares about the excitement you present, remember to please your audience with subtlety, and be true to yourself.

"Creativity": The creativity I mentioned above was actually a reference to the way American dramas were handled in 2008, and at that time almost no one in the game video production circle used this approach. It's kind of a bold innovation, such as the progressive treatment of the credits and sound effects, and the overall sense of immersion and rhythm of the video is handled in a very reasonable and compact way, which makes people feel great after watching it.

And the Youku comments that followed were mixed, with some saying what the hell did you do, and others saying it was cool.

Creativity is a double-edged sword, we can't please everyone's tastes, as long as we express what we want to express within a reasonable range, I think it's enough. But one must not be too paranoid or too pleasing to others, this needs to be weighed.

Additionally, I would like to send a message: if you have IQ, it's called creativity, if you don't, it's called randomness.

"Sincerity": In my personal work, I always think that sincerity is very important, even if you have a very short time, you have to bring enough sincerity, you can't do it hastily, and you can't just drag it out and not deal with the special effects because you are in a hurry.

The audience is not stupid, your video is what level in fact the general public can see.

For example:

A: your video effects with too much, some of the noise, the main and secondary unclear.

B: What the hell are you doing, someone else is drifting and driving and you're dubbing me with the courage of Jasmine Leung, what the hell?

C: bottom go subtitles with big bold, this is no longer a problem of intelligence, is the problem of aesthetic ah pro, choose a good font can shit people?

D: Can the transitions not be so perfunctory? It's not as good as a fool's acoustic movie!

E: you this video adjusted what color ah, a moment of warm a moment of cold, a moment of light a moment of dark, this editor is color blind or color weak?

F: Your video paragraph articulation is also too fast, faster than my heart rate is faster, anti-human?

G: What the hell is this? There's an extra "." in the subtitles.

G: I have OCD, you know?

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And I think the real sincerity is whether you're editing a video from someone else's point of view.

Your sincerity can be fully reflected in the video, and serious and sensitive people can easily feel it. And this sincerity is not only responsible for the audience, but also responsible for yourself.

---Conclusion---:

I sincerely wish you can go on the road of video editing better, because I know there are too many young people very very talented, they dare to think and dare to do, and now the school and their own conditions are very good, very conducive to go to the implementation and realization of your dream.

I've also seen a lot of videos made by 15~18 year olds that are very good, very professional, more professional than some media school majors, and their professionalism in dealing with material and footage can only take your breath away. For example, the 3D action segmentation of game characters, as well as the selection of nodes for action and soundtrack, the smoothness and completeness of the video, etc.

And I know a few students in a media school in Beijing, looking at the university is almost finished, the result is to cut a film even the basic "color" are not, not to mention the "ability to review the film" and "editing ability". And as far as my examples go, these are considered upper-middle level students in the class.

A 17-year-old from Wuhan, Hubei, whom I met in 2009, has had his video work featured on a German game's official website, with hundreds of thousands of daily visits and tens of thousands of downloads, and even more satisfying play counts on Youku and YT. And he taught himself AE and Vegas just outside of class time, and if he didn't report his age, an ad agency guy at the time teased, "I thought it was done by a peer."

Oh yes, this kid from Wuhan, later did a few videos about DOTA, back then in the super play and WODOTA is very popular oh, the click rate is very hot, but then he is very low-key, the name I do not mention, he now just graduated from college.

So the subject and friends similar to the subject, work hard, I believe that your dream is not just to enter the TV station, advertising agencies or film and media companies so simple, and one day you will be successful in your career will thank you now desperately trying to work hard.

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If this answer is helpful to the questioner or someone similar to the questioner, I am very happy~

If there is still something that I don't quite understand, I'm willing to do my best to solve your confusion.

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