A Hybrid Hybrid Approach

Making videos does take time. Im not going to lie to you. But there are ways to make it go faster and shave off time if you utilize the right software. And it doesn’t even look like you cut corners- it actually can make it look even More Custom!

How is that possible? Well I use Photodex’s Pro Show web to put many clips together and add the pretty transitions and flow. The extra special touches I love are the ways it takes a square or vertical video and fills in the sides of the video frame with blurred-out-but-matching moving areas that look SO good! It would take a ridiculous amount of time to do that by hand!

So, today I made a short 30 sec. video to represent me as a Lumix Luminary for Panasonic, and I’m actually going to make one for each of us– all 12 Luminaries! How best to save time, than to use ProShowWeb to do the heavy lifting for me and put all the pieces together?

So I pulled my videos and stills into Pro Show Web and created a show without music. Then I downloaded it as an HD version and opened it in Photoshop. One of the reasons  I did that was I need two sound tracks. One of my voice over and one of the music. That can’t be done in PSW, but is easily done in Photoshop. I created a blank doc in 1080. I added my voice track and music and trimmed to 30 sec and saved it. Then I just pulled in the PSW video on top of that! In the end I shortened a few clips and added a few stills on top, but overall it saved me a ton of time and made the cool backgrounds for the verticals and beautiful edges!

The final version is exported out of Photoshop and posted on YouTube and in our presentation…. now to do this 11 more times! Thanks, Photodex, for making life easier!

SuzetteSays: “Let the technology of today HELP you! There are so many great tools out there we just don’t use because we get stuck in our old ways.”

Suzette’s Video https://youtu.be/6iTdmF4juHU

Bob Coates’ video https://youtu.be/P2REA_yylTU

Giulio Sciorio’s video https://youtu.be/_fFw0eHhnqw