Today is the video age. If you want to step into this threshold, you still need to master a lot of skills. So what basic skills do you need to master in video editing? Next, let's take a look today.
First of all, let's learn about the basic process of video editing
1. Conceiving the split mirror
After the shooting theme is established, it is the design and grasp of the picture. Here, you don't need very superb narrative ability and screen design, but you only need the video producer to have certain expectations and designs for the picture effect before shooting, so that you won't be too flustered in the next shooting, and it is also convenient to design the material collection scheme.
2. Material collection
Material collection is divided into two parts, one is self-made and the other is ready-made material. ? If shooting by yourself, it is required to prepare shooting equipment (including camera, mobile phone, lighting, microphone, etc.), shooting related props, venue selection and models. ? Ready-made materials are generally obtained through the internet, and sometimes screen recording software or other related software may be used to support them.
3. Video editing and special effects
There are many video editing softwares, both simple and complex, and many vlog owners can edit wonderful videos only with their mobile phones. However, the production of long videos like bilibili basically needs to be completed by using nonlinear editing software on the pc side. The most commonly used is premier mentioned by many respondents. Premier of Adobe series is a very professional video editing software with very powerful functions, which can be used on both win and mac platforms. And it's not difficult to get started. The basic idea is to put the shot material into the material library, and then into the time axis, and select the cut-in point and cut-out point on the time axis, and finally connect them into a complete video.
4. Sound design
If you need to dub later, you need some sound collection equipment. Many live broadcasters will choose the microphone of headphones or buy another microphone. In addition, the choice of music is as important as editing. Both premier and final cut can edit and edit sound briefly, but complex sound processing, sound-repairing special effects, mixing and so on need special audio editing software. ?
5. Subtitles
Pr can meet the production needs of most subtitles, and the subtitle function of pr can be completed whether it is the video title or the ending subtitle or the subtitles in the feature film.
6. Export and upload
When exporting, you need to know some knowledge about video and audio formats. There are many export formats for pr, so choose the corresponding format according to the playing platform and playing equipment. In addition, you need to know some transcoding software for compression and format conversion when uploading. Common transcoding tools include "format factory" and so on.
The first introduction of editing software: pr
Second, what basic skills do you need to master in video editing?
1. Aesthetic ability
Aesthetics is the biggest gap skill between ordinary people and art professionals. This skill is not innate, but can be trained in the later stage. Without basic aesthetics, it is impossible to learn video and ps well. The promotion of aesthetics cannot be achieved overnight, but it is a relatively long-term process.
(1) Analyze, think, summarize laws and establish a system
Although everyone is different in aesthetics, there are traces to follow. For example, for a photo, if the subject is placed at the golden section, it will not be too bad. Aesthetics is a feeling, and we should always think about it and sum it up. Why use this color? Would it be better to use other colors? Long-term summary improves aesthetic ability.
(2) Learn to collect, organize and judge ugliness
In the process of learning aesthetics, you can often collect some pictures or consciously collect some videos, such as various promotional videos, and also learn to judge ugliness. Beauty may not be obvious at a glance, but ugliness is easy to see.
(3) contact imitation
Aesthetics We can start with imitation, just like calligraphy copying, first imitate, then form our own style, and deliberately move closer to the direction of beauty.
2. The ability of the pull-tab to find inspiration
The so-called pull-tab is to find some excellent films, such as CCTV propaganda films, documentaries, food films, etc., and analyze the scenery, movement, lighting, scene, composition, etc. of each picture through repeated watching, and after a lot of analysis, the book can be read for a hundred times.
In fact, pull-tab is also a quick way to improve aesthetics, and at the same time, pull-tab can also improve editing thinking ability. For example, I have been editing for seven or eight years, and now I still pull-tab frequently. It is suggested that editors don't know how to start, so they should pull some films first. For editing, the basic inspiration comes.
3, editing related skills
This skill of editing is the most basic and simplest, that is, using the editing software skillfully, we can use the software to make the desired effect.
common skills of video editing
(1) continuous action editing
continuous action editing is almost straight cutting. The first shot in a series of consecutive pictures shows a person doing some kind of action, and then the second shot continues this action, but the view is different. There is no time to break, and the movements are coherent and complete.
(2) picture editing
If you feel that the film is not bright enough or dark enough, try to avoid the absolute method of overall brightening or dimming, and you can solve it by increasing the area and proportion of bright parts.
(3) Rhythm editing
The lens used in the rhythm editing point is generally a lens without character language. Based on the rhythm clue of the development of event content, it flexibly handles the length and editing of the lens according to the emotion, atmosphere and picture modeling characteristics expressed by the content.
(4) Position editing
Under the guidance of editing, the audience's eyes are fixed around the screen. Eyes move up and down, left and right around the picture. The most basic example of picture position editing is the traditional two-person dialogue scene.
(5) Scenery editing
Different shots convey different information and specific intentions. Different scenes often show different horizons, spatial ranges, visual rhythms and rhythms.
(6) Staggered editing
Sound editing can also be continued in a staggered way, that is, the sound and character images are not switched at the same time, but cut out in a staggered way. That is, the sound cut by the character in the last shot is dragged to the picture of the character in the next shot. Makes people feel smooth, vivid and not rigid.
4. Copywriting
Copywriting is often the soul of a video. Copywriting is needed for dubbing or subtitle, so basic copywriting skills are required.
when writing video copy, we can divide the video content into three parts: front, middle and back. The prophase and anaphase can be simplified appropriately because they undertake the introduction and finishing work of the content, and should not be too much; In the middle part of the video, that is, the main content part, you need more.
Personal experience: I also learned video editing from scratch. I can only say that it's easy to watch, but it's still not easy to learn. I have to like it myself and be able to cut it well. After all, sometimes even a shot needs to be operated frame by frame. As for the basic skills of editing, everyone starts from scratch, so I don't have to bear the burden, so I can learn it slowly.