Walter White
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I'm sort of dabbling in the video editing world and don't know much about it, and I have a feeling some people on this site do. I guess I appreciate any advice or help on questions I have if you could. I'm thinking about doing some comedy sketches in the future and putting them on youtube, mostly just for fun. I just got hit with how amazing editing is and the endless possibilities. Anyway, this is where I'm at right now:
I have sort of a funny clip from a video game and I had something specific with it in mind editing wise. So I imported the clip from my ps4 which is a .mp4 format. I have windows vista and it wouldn't play in windows movie maker (crappy version). So I figured out I needed to convert it to a different format, which I did. So the clip played fine. And I did all the editing I wanted to do and it looks fine straight off my laptop.
But the problem is windows movie maker sucks and sometimes it blanks out half the clip for no reason. Sometimes it works normal when you play it, sometimes it blacks out half of it. So hoping that wouldn't be a problem, I tried to upload it to youtube but no go. The black out part still stayed on the clip. And to top it off, the parts of it that did work looked horrible on youtube, nothing like how it looks on my computer. The screen was small and shaky and just horrible quality. I'm wondering now if I need to reconvert it to .mp4 for youtube if that will help and make the quality better?
I don't know, I'm new at this and clearly don't know what I'm doing. And don't have the best tools to work with. But any help or advice would be great.
I have sort of a funny clip from a video game and I had something specific with it in mind editing wise. So I imported the clip from my ps4 which is a .mp4 format. I have windows vista and it wouldn't play in windows movie maker (crappy version). So I figured out I needed to convert it to a different format, which I did. So the clip played fine. And I did all the editing I wanted to do and it looks fine straight off my laptop.
But the problem is windows movie maker sucks and sometimes it blanks out half the clip for no reason. Sometimes it works normal when you play it, sometimes it blacks out half of it. So hoping that wouldn't be a problem, I tried to upload it to youtube but no go. The black out part still stayed on the clip. And to top it off, the parts of it that did work looked horrible on youtube, nothing like how it looks on my computer. The screen was small and shaky and just horrible quality. I'm wondering now if I need to reconvert it to .mp4 for youtube if that will help and make the quality better?
I don't know, I'm new at this and clearly don't know what I'm doing. And don't have the best tools to work with. But any help or advice would be great.