The Basics of Video Editing
How to Produce Professional-Looking Movies
Using Relatively Cheap Hardware and Software
I started producing movies about a decade ago when I purchased my first low-budget video camera. Teaching myself, I used Microsoft Movie Maker software to create a movie using raw footage from a family holiday gathering, along with music downloaded from the internet for an audio track. It was my first experience cutting, pasting, and splitting videos clips, creating credits, using special effects, and exporting the finished product to a single file that I burned to a CD. As the years have gone by I have graduated to more expensive and sophisticated hardware and software, producing educational videos for YouTube and movies featuring my music students.
Having recently been contacted by a couple of people who wanted me to teach them how to edit and produce movies, I thought it might be a good idea to write a page on my website that gave instructions in a step-by-step format. This is my very modest attempt at describing the basic steps to follow to produce a relatively professional-quality movie.
