Video & Photo Tech

Video editing requires a lot of focus, creativity, and most importantly, the right tools to move forward with your idea of how a final video should look like. But, sometimes, all we need are just little tweaks in our videos like cropping, trimming, or removing audio. For tweaks this small, there are several apps you can download. But instead of downloading new apps, you can access basic video editing features hidden in Windows 10’s Photos app. Here is a quick guide to the hidden video editor of Windows 10. Open a video in the default Photos app. Open the video you want to edit in the Photos app. Right-click and navigate to “Open with” and then click on Photos. Click ‘Edit & Create’ Click on the “Edit & Create” option adjacent to the “Share” option on the top right side of the screen. Select from the Drop-down menu options After clicking on it, there will be a drop-down menu with many editing options. Trim the video The “Trim” will let you an annotated environment where you can ...

  Have you ever felt like you can’t trust all the video on your newsfeed? Videos are often misrepresented or manipulated these days, with few tools on how to determine what’s real versus fake. The Washington Post’s Fact Checker team put together a guide to teach you how to be your own video investigator. Types of manipulated video and tips to spot them To start, learn about the different ways video can be manipulated. Missing context Definition: The post lacks or misstates the context in which events occurred. Or, the content of an unaltered video could be false or misleading. Tip: See if the video is being posted by multiple verified news outlets. Check the description of what happens on screen against reliable sources. Deceptive editing Definition: The video has been edited and rearranged. Tip: Watch for large gaps in time, unexplained transitions or an abrupt edit in the video. Malicious transformation Definition: Part or all of the video has been manipulated to transf...

  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 ...