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Video editing resource

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Brian Stirling

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I'm looking to get more into video but have very little experience with video editing and am looking for a website / blog that's more or less dedicated to it. I have PowerDirector now but am kind of leaning towards a more standard high feature package like Adobe Premiere Pro. Probably the main reason for APP in addition to it being one of the main pro programs is that as a photographer I've been using Photoshop for about 13 years.


Brian
 
I would just get a subscription to Lynda.com or some other training website that has a lot of video editing training. The great thing is not only will you be able to access the video editing tutorials but also you will have access to all the other tutorials for other software.
 
I learn by doing. I suppose in the beginning I used the instructions or found a basic tutorial to learn the basics. But I think it was just intuitive to play around and figure out the basics: add content, order it, determine transitions, etc.

For everything beyond the basics, I google what I want to do and "Vegas" (my software) and google will find me videos / forum posts / blog posts regarding what I want to do. I actively decide what I want to do, or do better. So I may google "fake snow sony vegas" and usually find what I want fairly quickly. I often find what I want in the Creative Cow forums. I rarely just casually read there because I find the interface cumbersome. But google helps me find specific answers.

I think also that it helps to start with simple software (I began with MS MovieMaker) and then graduate to more advanced software once the simple one can't do what you want to do. So for me - I moved onto Sony Vegas Studio, but still not onto the Pro version. There is nothing that I've wanted to do that I couldn't.
 
i learn whatever i need from youtube.
learned what color grading is from youtube too. color grading changed my vids forever!
 
luv2liv said:
i learn whatever i need from youtube.
learned what color grading is from youtube too. color grading changed my vids forever!
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Yeah, I found a 41 part series on Premiere Pro CC 2015 from a guy calling himself "chinfat" and he's really good. Total time of the series is about 12 hours. Good enough to get me started and deep enough to cover most of the things I want to do and more.


Brian
 
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