First Edit Ever.

BROSEIDON

BROSEIDON

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Don't hate, I got a gopro, only made one edit before that was meant to be a joke. Just trying to learn the ways. I'm ready to be critiqued hard and chances are I won't know what you're talking about so explanations would be greatly appreciated and karma will be awarded. I'm using final cut pro btw.

Thanks!

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Alright work on steady filming though. Makes me want to longboard and whatever happened at 1:00 ish was sweet.
 
just from looking at it quickly, it would help if you didn't point the camera straight into the sun. it makes the footage look really washed out, because the camera can't "see" such big differences in light. I will try to finish some of my hw and then actually go in detail for you
 
Don't shoot in 960p mode, do hold the camera steadier.

The reason 960p is bad is because the aspect ratio of the video isn't 16:9, that's why the sides of the video on youtube are black. If you didn't shoot in 960p, then make sure when you render you're rendering to a 16:9 aspect ratio.
 
that defeats the purpose of 960 tho. It is fine to use 960 if you know why you are using it. The main reason you use 960 isn't the resolution, its the added vertical height. This makes it desirable for filming in helmet cam style, I know they often use motocross as an example on the site
 
My friend told me to shoot in that, parts of it (when the kid in the blue was sliding) were in 1080p and I like that a lot more, especially because there isn't the black on the sides.

Thanks joey!
 
once again, you can just stretch and scale. this only really works well if it's pov footage (so that you can't really tell it's stretched), and then scale it only a little so you don't lose a whole lot of vertical view.
 
It defeats the purpose because that is the incorrect way of doing it. The whole point of 960 is that it gives you space to adjust it in post, not crop it blindly during transcoding.

You import it into your NLE at its native dimensions (960). Make it fill the frame, and adjust it vertically to your liking. As long as your sequence is in 16:9, and the clip fills the frame horizontally, it will automatically cut off the excess space.
 
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