From the course: Using Video to Convey Your Passion and Personality

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The essentials and preferred programs

The essentials and preferred programs

- I strongly advise that you become very good friends with a number of editors. It will make your life a lot easier. However, it's always good to learn how to do it yourself. But it takes a lot of practice. So once you've filmed everything, pull all of your footage together. Think about the music, titles and graphics that you want to create and put into this video. When editing your video, keep in mind that you audience has a short attention span. Again if you're just starting out, play with these different types of software. See what you can learn, how you can try to edit yourself. This is especially important if you're planning to post your video online. You want to keep it short and sweet and to the point because you need to hook your audience within the first few seconds to make them watch the entire video. Regardless of which software you try out, how far you get, it's always good to understand the process. But at…

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