Learn video editing

To learn video editing you need a video camera, a way to record it to your computer and a good video editing software to chop up video and make a story. In the beginning you can get away with a cheap video camera and audio that is less than perfect but your video editing software must be good if you want to make something decent.

See Basic Video Editing.

Video Editing History

Video editing is the true art of movie making. It is done when different video clips are sliced and pieced together to tell a story. They way you shoot and edit tells the story, it is a big part of how good movies are made. It isnt to hard to make a movie of a night out or doing something socially.

Editing video was once done in machines shown right

Thankfully video editing is now done on software so that your video can be manipulated with cutting and pasting or special effects.

Next time you look at some video see how long the scenes stay continuous for before any kind of change. It's only ever a few seconds.

All the stuff on TV is made up of lots of short quick clips that change every few seconds so that the viewer doesn't get bored.

When you learn to edit movies your ability to film quality scenes will improve. In a video editing software you can chop your original video up in to many pieces, trim all the bad shots and the ones of no interest, change the lighting such as brightness and contrast, change the color improving its richness, add all kinds of things to your video and then create a video that others can easily watch. Sounds like fun doesn't it.

Record your footage to the computer with your video editing software.

Having difficulty recording to your computer? See how to record video to your computer.