How to Edit and Convert Your Video Online for Free

By Annie Wallace

With so many media formats available, it is always good to have a good converter by hand. So I decided to round-up free video converters for you to bookmark and refer to when you need it.

With a huge number of available tools (most of which are paid of course) it is really not easy to find a tool that is free, reliable and effective at the same time. So to solve this problem, here are my picks of best video converting software.

So the following 2 handy cheatsheets should come quite in handy!

Convert video online:

Desktop converters:

Windows:

Linux: Avidemux – a free Linux application used for simple editing and encoding tasks.

Edit Video Online

Do you enjoy having fun with your video? Just a few cute special effects or cool background music might result in the video huge popularity. So consider learning just a few video editing basics and try them out.

Video editing tools are numerous. They can be free or paid, desk-top or online, professional or meant for absolute amateurs. In this post I decided to refrain from listing too advanced techniques or application. Being an amateur myself, I don’t want to dig deep into details. So I am listing just a few free online video editing tools to have fun while playing with your video:

PhotoBucket offers really sleek and convenient interface and also it one of the fastest. It uploads videos quickly and is rather fast to introduce any edits. You can have a lot fun with it: add text, text bubbles, images from your Photobucket albums, cut video clips, play with various colors, add music and much more:

VeoTag offers a bit different type of editing. With it you can add clickable text to your video to quickly navigate throughout the clip: add tables of contents, chapter headings, and menus, add tags, transcripts, notes, and comments. The site offers both pro and basic accounts. The idea is really good but the site is terribly slow:

Please let us know if you are aware of more free video converters that you can recommend! Let’s make an ultimate and useful list of free converters!

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Annie Wallace is a viral markerter and blogger. Check out her post “The History of Facebook” if you are interested to see what she is up to!

Developing a Corporate Video – From Script to Screen!

By Claire Jarrett

For corporate promotional video projects, scripting is crucial to success. Once you have decided what the “take away” message should be, developing a good script will be the message’s proving ground. This is where you can play with ideas, map out sequences, examine concepts, and play out “what if” scenarios.

Your script should have two parallel tracks: a sound side and an images side. The sound side is everything that is said, sound effects, and music. The images side is what the viewer is going to see on screen, at least in theory, when the video has been completed.

Once you have an initial draft of a script, show it to a few other people, people who are equipped to evaluate it from a content and presentation standpoint. Get their feedback, think it all through, and incorporate the best stuff they give you into future drafts of the script. The key word above is the word “drafts.” You will need to do multiple drafts, at least three, to know enough to move forward. Once you have something ready to show to your management, you are likely to get more suggestions and requests for changes.

Even after they’ve completely weighed in, you’ll have to run it by some lawyers. Some of these folks are likely to struggle with visualizing the finished video by reading a script. You may need to also do storyboards, or at least get some sketches made to help everyone “see” the video before you start spending any money.

Sooner or later you will get the script to a point where it can be a jumping off point for production planning. Multiple drafts are going to be needed, but you have to draw a line somewhere and get the project moving. As you move into production, you shoot parts of the production, using the script as your guide to help you keep track of your progress. However, during production, you are more than likely to discover that some of your ideas won’t work for whatever reason.

This is where you deviate from the script to whatever degree is necessary. Document all your changes on a revised script as you go, saving each new version under different file names. You may need to re-develop this project at some future date.  Do not fail to save the “approved” version of the script, if only for your own protection.

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Claire Jarrett runs Marketing By Web and recommends Clear Blue for Corporate Video.