June 2025

GoKart Driveway Test 2025 is my latest video featuring a special effect called "video collage." Video collage is a special effect in DaVinci Resolve 20. It starts the effect with 2 rows and 2 columns of tiled windows cut into a background scene, which are populated with other video clips. These can be configured into as many tiles as you want. I made this next video with 4 animated tiles. Check it out...

GoKart Driveway Test 2025

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• Video Collage is a canned special effect in DaVinci Resolve, a video editing/color grading/publishing software application. I think it is a pretty cool effect, but hard to master. I researched several tutorials and discovered that there are no really good ones that demonstrate what this one does. That's because it is that complicated. So, future tutorial on how I did it is now a thought seed for another day.
  
  
• Consistent color correction begins in the camera. In this video I used the same white balance for every shot even though lighting conditions changed from shot to shot. Then in the color suite I graded one shot with the best exposure. Then I simply copied that timing setting from that shot to the next shot. And so on, and on. I saved a lot of time that way and am happy with the results.
  
  
• Don't go overboard when editing. It is easy to over edit any video. For this video I shot about 10 scenes. And 5 of them ended up on the cutting room floor. And why do we still call outtakes and discarded scenes the "cutting room floor?" Well, it is a term left over from the film era. When editing film the floor is literally where those pieces of film landed. And, it is a cool metaphor that mimics reality.

  You might think why not carefully conserve those edited out pieces of film, just in case you want edited them back in? It's because If you wanted to do that you would use a brand new piece of film instead of one that has been used already. In video, this is not a problem.

  In film, there are negative and positive film stocks. The original negative film is rarely ever edited at all. Positive film is a reproduction of the negative film. So, you would print the piece of negative film again and edit the positive film, You can make as many reproductions or prints of the negative as you need. In video, this is not a problem.

In video, the information is shot, stored and edited electronically. Meaning you are actually editing analog or digital signals, not physical material. These signals can be reproduced and re-edited if needed but, you don't have to "get a new print" and there is no benefit in discarding the footage, just remove it from your signal flow.

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BWT Videos updated it's video editing gig on fiverr.com today. I was reviewing it and thought it's time for an upgrade. I reworded several passages, changed the title and increased the prices, along with new longer video lengths and more options included. I also added the keyword "YouTube" to my title. Here's my updated fiverr gig.

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1. Keywords are king. Optimizing your online presence takes many factors. However KEYWORDS stand out. When used properly, keywords will do more for your business than any other approach. Of course that is old school these days, but done well over time brands your business with you personally. As in "Bill Gates is Microsoft", "Mark Zuckerburg is FaceBook" and "Tim Koen is BWT Videos."
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Well, I learned the other day that I should not update my fiverr gig more than once a month. While participating in a community webinar for my local fiverr chapter I found out fiverr.com doesn't like to see gigs updated too frequently. And dang it, if that ain't my plan right now. I decided to start with my title and descriptions. Then pricing then my potfolio gallery.

Then came the promo video. So, I re-edited last years promo, repurposed, added some nice special effects and put in a couple of calls to action. Here it is...

Video Mockup by Tim Koen

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• Update older videos periodically. This particular video began life about 5 years ago as a performance test of new features in Camtasia Studio. It has evolved with updates every year or so. With new features and effects being added each time. This year's new upgrade are cursor effects. Camtasia introduced some spectacular special effects including cursor click down effects.
• Grouping in Camtasia is a way to create multi-track layer stacking animations. Here's the thing; now that AI is playing a part in video creation these days. (I use a lot in this video.) it is important to organize your clips and scenes to go with the flow. If you know what I mean. For instance AI is used to create many of the animations, and generate the subtitles. It is important to organize them in such a way as to prevent conflicts that can cause the AI technology to halucinate. Which can happen in multi-layered animation productions.
• Practice, practice, practice is the only way to stay on top of your profession. This above video is an example of basement level to top floor video. As I said earlier this is an old many times re-worked video. After practicing the techniques over and over I feel confident I can handle most projects that come my way.

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HumanPal spokespersons are AI generated human-like animated spokespersons or avatars. One of the recent new ones is an avatar called Amiela Portrait 2.0, and she is equiped with next generation emotional voices. Ironically you use punctuation in your script to entice emotion, Also you have the option of adding in laughs, sighs, chuckles and gasps. Watch the video and see if agree the inflection and tonality are far superior to other text to speech engines.

In this vertical video Amelia uses a voice (Ursula) with medium lip sync movements. There is an option during the creation process where you can select low, medium or extreme lip sync movement. I like medium as it seems to be a perfect match.

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1. Glitch fixing can be used effectively to cover up other mistakes. For instance in the production process Amelia inserts a word into the script that was taken out but the AI generation didn't correct it. So, I cut out the offending word in post and covered the jump cut with a "glitch" transition.

2. Chapters are important. Fortunately Camtasia makes chaptering easy. Real easy. Simply insert a marker where you want it, then rename the marker. When publishing to YouTube check the option "chapters from markers" in the export process. This adds functionality for viewers and is a great way to add keywords to your YouTube description.

3. HumanPal 2.0 AI avatars, recently released, have mastered the AI generated animated spokesperson technology. They feature new emotional voices, better gesturing and now walking talking avatars.

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