Video Editing...

I just wanted to tell you about what I know from my editing experience and other stuff.

I started learning on my own with video editing since 2000. I made a couple of videos in the beginning with several favorite series coming from the world of Japanese animation. Unfortunately, they did not turn out the way I thought they would but it was a good first try if I do say so myself. Later on for a few years, I watched countless anime music videos or as we call it 'AMV's' and they were all really professional and stunning. I was always looking for new ways to improve my videos. I even began to understand the programs people used most of the time and apply their imagination to their video. Most music videos are mainly narrative based on the series they select. I made a mental note for editing programs that can be helpful going up the ladder.

Beginners Programs

Windows Movie Maker - This program comes along with Windows and happens to be the first video editing programs I had fun making movies with. Nowadays, for people who like making much better videos, this happens to be the most hated programs because it freezes a lot and lacks editing tools but great for starters.

iMovie - This program comes along with the Mac and it also happens to be another beginners editing programs as well. I only tried this once when I was at City College for a semester and I think I found a even more hated program other than Maker. I couldn't move the clips easily and it was annoying working with the audio. Never again will I work with this program again.

Intermediate Programs

Adobe Premiere(any version) - A program I'm working with right now and I'm pretty great at it. Not to mention a whole lot better to manage certain tools and clips and really great at organization. I made a majority of my fanmade videos using this program after I had my internship at BMCC. I even made a video that I submitted to anime conventions last year and won a total of five awards, four for best drama category and one best in show. Here's my video that someone recorded at a anime convention called "Anime Boston" held in Boston. It won for Best Drama and from what I heard a close winner for best in show. When I first uploaded this video I had up to close to 20,000 views a lot of comments.

Title of the Video: Escaping But Not Far
Anime Series: Death Note
Song: "Bird and the Worm"
Artist: The Used
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cKdUFY2gK0

Sony Vegas Pro - A program that I heard a majority of editors use but they swear to and that it creates videos on a whole new level. Its a program I'm currently testing and I really like how it turns out in small clips I exported. The best part of Vegas is that I can FINALLY upload a high quality videos up on YouTube or even better...HD!! As for an example of a video made from this program here's one from a studio named A2000A and the editor is Koopiskation. I hope someday that I can make a video like this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujU9q3Equ60

Advanced Programs

Avid Express Pro/Mojo - A program I used on my last year in BMCC. Its also the program I edited a majority of my documentaries on as well. When I first looked at it, I couldn't believe all the many options you can pick from but I know that I really need only a few to complete my videos. My favorite effects I really love to use while editing certain videos were pan and scan and using masks of any size. Along with the program, the keyboard had the same tools as what you can see on the program. The only thing that I find kind of annoying is the constant firewiring and use of the video deck. It gets worse at the end of the semester when the entire video lab is crowded and have every station occupied, but that's how it is anyway.

Final Cut Pro - Just as Sony Vegas, a majority of editors also swear by it. I only saw a glimpse of it just last semester and I was surprised that it looked almost exactly like Avid. So now that I've seen it, I would know how to edit videos using the tools I've worked with before.

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I know this random post is long but I wanted to say it anyway and to also have a connection with what you wanted to see a video of my editing. One more thing, I couldn't find my film reel with my work but I was extremely lucky to find the montage video I was talking about.

EDIT: I almost forgot to tell you about that website I was talking about before. Its a website that I use sometimes when I feel like downloading something from a streaming site that doesn't give any option for downloading the video. Here it is...

http://www.mediaconverter.org/

The instructions are self-explaintory and it can apply to any streaming site you go to.