Say, you’ve filmed a great clip. Everything looks perfect… until you notice that in the background, there’s a person who didn’t give permission to appear on camera. Naturally, this is something you need to hide if you want to be ethically correct and avoid legal risks. If the person is close to the edge of the frame, you can try to crop them out. But what if they are in the middle or constantly moving? Or maybe you just want to keep the composition intact? Then you have no other choice but to blur the person’s face in the video. It might seem like a complicated task. But it’s actually not.
Cropping is one of the easiest, yet most effective editing techniques that every content creator, a social media enthusiast, or someone who wants their videos to look cleaner and more polished needs to master. It can really make a world of a difference! It allows you to remove unwanted parts of the frame, focus on the main subject, fix the overall composition, and adapt one and the same video for different platforms.
Large-sized files can be a real hassle. It’s a challenge to share them via email or upload to social media. And you can run out of your storage space pretty quickly because of them. Fortunately, there’s a way to make a video file smaller without sacrificing too much quality. Actually, there are multiple ways. And you don’t have to be a video editor or tech wizard to do it!
Live Photos is a rather unique feature of an iPhone camera. Once enabled, the Camera app won’t just take a single photo – it will capture some extra frames as well as audio before and after you press the shutter button. As a result, you get a moving image that’s approximately 3 second long. It looks kind of like an animated GIF – or those magical portraits from Harry Potter movies – but with audio.
If you want to store and share your videos easily and without waiting a long time for them to upload as well as stream them without experiencing frequent buffering, then you might need to reduce a video file size. This is often achieved with the help of video compression as it allows you to make the file size much smaller while maintaining the audio and video quality as much as possible.
Lina Thorne • Updated · Posted in Video Editing
