National Holiday Video Editing Weekend - 7 Tips to Do it Now!

In the midst of taking down tinsel and filing away the numerous gift cards you received, we want to remind you of all the wonderful footage you shot while in the throes of holiday cheer. While it’s tempting to put off editing ’til later, you are almost certainly dooming the tapes to a life of collecting top-shelf closet dust. Why not do it this weekend?! In mere hours, you’ll have a delightful piece of family heritage in the can. Here’s some advice for editing your masterpiece.

7 Tips for Editing your Holiday Video

1. Just Do It, Now! - The best advice we can give you is the old Carpe Diem mentality. Commit to finishing your video this weekend. It’s a quick and relatively painless procedure and you’ll thank us afterwards. Otherwise, human nature dictates that it will never get done (or worse, you’ll be sending it out as a gift for the 4th of July).

2. Fire Up Your Editing Program - Don’t worry if you haven’t done any editing before. For your purposes, any basic editing program on your computer or that came with your camera should do fine. If you’ve been aching to learn that high-end editing system you copied from your cousin, hold off until the task at hand is complete. Read the rest of this entry »

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