Video & Photo Tech

  Creating a lovely short film at home could be a great thing to send to those family members you're missing this year, who would no doubt love to feel connected with the good times they're missing out on. And the great thing is that with awesome cameras and even great editing software built right into your phone, it's never been easier to shoot a delightful video to share with loved ones, whether you've got the brand-new iPhone 12 Pro Max  ($1,099 at Amazon)  or an older-generation  Android phone . Here, then, are my top tips you should keep in mind when making your own video at home this year. Consider what you want your video to be  Before you start, you should give a bit of thought to what you want your video to include. It could just be a full film of everything that happened over the holiday period, but consider making it a bit more specific. Perhaps a video all about the preparation -- and eventual eating -- of the big meal, or maybe it's the kids opening the

  If you're a video editor, you understand that you can only be as good as the tools with you. A lot of the time, we do a lot of work and end up struggling because of subpar tools at our disposal.  In this piece, we'll take a look at some of the top video editing software options and how they can help you to save time and improve your output. Adobe Premiere Pro  When you ask video editing professionals what software they use, there's a significant chance they'll say Adobe Premiere Pro. From working on movies to making YouTube videos to designing commercials, this software is game on all fronts.  Most people tend to focus on both this software and Final Cut Pro - we'll get to that in a minute. The most glaring difference between Adobe Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro is that the latter is only available on MacOS. If you're a creative and you work on Windows, you will need this.  Adobe Premiere Pro is a part o thew Adobe Creative Cloud. This means that the service i

  It seems that they have been implemented since the very premiere of Instagram, but the truth is that the Stories or Stories arrived 4 years ago, in the summer of 2016, and are used daily by more than 500 million users. Unlike a normal post, they allow you to upload an image, photo or video with an ‘expiration date’ that will be deleted by the system in a few minutes or a day. You can even do it privately by choosing which users you want to see. In fact, today we are going to show how you can upload a long video to Instagram and split it into several Stories. The Instagram interface lets you film a video from the Stories continuously and breaks it into chunks of 15 seconds maximum. But to upload a long video that you have made with the mobile camera, or that you have downloaded in the gallery or downloads, you must use these apps whether you have Android or iPhone: Story Cutter for Android One of the best known and most used, is an app that allows you to cut any video you have on your

  As an independent artist, you need to be able to do a little bit of everything, and while it might not be reasonable to expect every musician to also be a master cinematographer, user-friendly video editing apps can help in doing a lot of the heavy lifting for you. Independent musicians are expected to wear many hats. Mastering every one can be a difficult task, but with all the user-friendly tech tools available today, video editing doesn’t have to be. Once you check out these amazing mobile editing apps, you’ll be wondering how you ever lived without them. Let’s dive in… Best Mobile Video Editing Apps for Musicians InShot For getting the perfect dimensions for your video,  InShot  is the way to go. Frequent Instagram users are all too aware of the various dimensions required in different parts of the app. For example, Instagram Stories are 9:16. However, if you want a video to fit your feed, you may want to size it down to a square aspect ratio. Usually, that’s not an easy task. Th