learn the meaning of the word “edit”. Then learn how to actually do it. Because
[ul]
[li]If you can operate a video camera and a computer, you can edit your video. [/li]
[li]If you really want to be helpful, you will edit your video.[/li]
[li]If you want people to actually watch it, you must edit your video. [/li]
[li]If you care about having people watch any other videos you make, editing your video is the single most important thing you can do. [/ul][/li]Do not mistake my meaning - I am not encouraging you to combine your secret desire to direct Rhianna videos with your desire to teach people how to use, make or create something- editing serves very different functions in these two applications. In your educational video, editing means the very simplest thing: trim away the boring, repetitive, unnecessary and unhelpful seconds and minutes which not only do not need to be included in order to effectively communicate the information, but including them actively detracts from the effectiveness of the communication. The more of such stuff you include, the less effective your communication becomes.
Once you learn about and employ basic editing techniques successfully, we can go on to discuss other distracting, irritating and unhelpful issues, such as the many ways you destroy the usefulness of your video with incredibly bad sound:
[ul]
[li]loud wind [/li][li]loud scraping and cable dragging[/li][li]way-too-soft narration[/li][li]substituting verbal narration with title cards and horrible loud music or horrible treacly music or some other kind of horrible music that’s just horrible[/li][/ul]
But we’ll cover all that next time on Thanks, We Appreciate the Effort, But You Suck.