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Ah Thanksgiving, tis the season to shoot the family, videos that is. In this video I shot my own family. Men, women and children all shot in the face with my Black Magic PCC 4k. A fine camera with a lot of firepower. Just kidding of course the family is fine. Check out the video to see if they survived Killer Turkey Dinner...

How To Quickly Grab Stills In DaVinci Resolve

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Some videos are nothing more than a series of still shots that are animated and time stretched. In other words a bunch of individual frames edited together. Sounds simple right? Not so fast gunslinger. First you have to export the frames out of the footage as still frames. How you gonna do that, in DaVinci Resolve 20, Quick Draw Mcgraw? With a custom made keyboard shortcut, pardner.

1. Open up the "Keyboard Customization" panel under the "DaVinci Resolve" menu, and in the search box type in "export." Then open the dropdown menu with a list of options.
2. Locate "Current Frame as Still" option, then...
3. Select the keyboard shortcut textbox and type in a shortcut that isn't already used. In this example I chose "Shift + P" Hold down the shift key and tap the "P."
4. Click "Save." Now you have a shortcut to quickly capture stills from video frames. Now when you position your playhead over a frame on the "Cut", "Edit" or "Color" page you can capture a still by holding down the "Shift" key and clicking the "P" key.

Koen Family Turkey Dinner video employed this technique to grab stills from over 55 minutes of footage to generate a synopsis type video of much shorter duration. Almost anything is possible with exceptional editing capabilities. Make your video stand out from the competition...

Clean Small Parts is the latest installment in Reedjet Rebuild series. This video features 4k, widescreen and time lapse cinematography. Check it out...

Clean Small Parts

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Is 4k resolution right for your next video? Depends on your desired result. Advantages of 4k over say (1920x1080)FHD are increased resolution and sharper pictures with more dynamic range but also has much, much larger file sizes.

• Persistence of vision: is how the eye works, It takes about a tenth of a second for the brain to even percieve motion. And another tenth of a second to react. At around 16 frames per second the brain begins to see gaps in motion. This phenomina is called flicker. Motion becomes smoothed out with higher frames per second.
• Time lapse: allows you to change the number a frames recorded per second. If you record motion at a lower frames per second (fps) and then play it back at a higher fps motion appears to go faster but it looks choppy and overspeed. Which can be used to compress time in a video.
• 4k vs. UHD: this video is an experiment I wanted to do. At the expense of using up all my disc space recording at the higher 4k, 4.2:1 DCI (widescreen) resolution as opposed the the normal UHD (3840x2160) like most video that I shoot. I went with a frame rate of 3fps and playback at 30fps.
• 3fps vs 30fps:this video is sped up by a factor of 10. That means if the video is 57 seconds, then I actually spent 57 minutes cleaning parts. An amount of time that would fill up my portable ssd recording drive. So, time lapse works for this video and saved a lot of disc space.

Shooting time lapse is ideal to record events that take a long time. Like cleanning small parts in a Parilla Reedjet motor. I knew this footage would be boring as all get out, but would look great (At least to me). what do you think...

Oh, the magic of AI. In this video I used an AI tool to speed up the editing process. A best website tool called "Ripple Delete Silence" in Davinci Resolve 20.2. This tool analyzes the content and cuts out any silent portions automatically.

That's cool! Instead of doing time lapse and fast editing and other time consuming tricks now I can edit a show and tell in minutes.

So, if your intent is to shorten your clips to only those portions with voice you're going to love this tool. It does make the result a little choppy. But choppy is way better than boring. Check out this video...

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Ripple Delete Silence in Davinci Resolve 20 removes silent portions of a video clip with the use of AI. The tool analyzes the clip and cuts out any silent portions. It does capture surrounding background sounds as you will see in the above video. Control of the edit points boils down to threshhold, pre-head, post-tail and minimum to strip.

1. Threshhold: defines the loudness of the sound to keep
2. Pre-head: sets how many frames ahead of the portion to keep.
3. Post-Tail: sets number of frames to keep after the sound.
4. Minumum to Strip: set the number of required frames to delete.

Editing after ripple to delete silence allows you to add fusion effects, transitions and other elements. A good idea is to use markers to help keep your timeline organized.

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I have been using SBI for nearly 20 years and promote it whole-heartedly. Theorectically, SBI is the best deal ever. For a low annual fee you should be able to achieve financial independance. But, you have to work at it. SBI is not a get rich quick scheme. It is a collection of online business tools that need to be used to be effective. Check it out...

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The amount of support, instruction and knowledge available is very impressive. The step-by-step Action Guide walks you through the process in a well thought out tutorial. Along with numerous tips, tricks and techniques needed to succeed. To learn more click the link below...

Office Tools For Online Business

Hello, Tim here. As you know I am an affiliate marketer on fiverr.com. So well, now you can get Microsoft 365 (MS365) through BWT Videos on the fiverr platform. Is it worth it to add MS365 to your collection of Best Website Tools?

I think so. Creating content has become so much easier with the AI assistance of CoPilot with all the favorite office programs. Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook and CoPilot all in a nice bundle. Microsoft365.

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Microsoft 365 Apps & Services

1. Word
2. Excel
3. PowerPoint
4. Outlook (personal email address)
5. OneNote (word processor)
6. OneDrive for Business (1Tb cloud storage)
7. Copilot (advanced AI chatbot)
8. Microsoft Teams (chat, meetings, video)
9. SharePoint Online (team sites, intranet)
10. Planner (task management)
11. Forms (surveys & quizzes)
12. Sway (interactive reports)
13. Bookings (online scheduling)
14. Yammer (enterprise social network)

Animated Spokesperson Videos Explained is a promotional video I made for my fiverr.com gig. It features Charles an AI generated, animated avatar. Charles explaines the spokesperson video service BWT Videos offers on fiverr.com. Check it out...

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• AI Avatars boost engagement. Animated spokespersons like Charles here can add personality and clarity to your message. Effective for all kinds of video, explaners, tutorials, product demos and service demonstrations.
• Write a good script. Since avatars rely solely upon their voice overs it is critical to have a well crafted script. A clear and compelling script ensures your message is conveyed effectively.
• We used DaVinci Resolve 20 to edit this video. Advantages of this editing platform include: voice isolation, color grading and chromakeying. We also used a new plugin called MagicSubtitles to create the dynamic insync voice activated subtitles.

BWT Videos offers animated spokesperson video service on fiverr.com. If you want to boost engagement, effectively convey your message and streamline the process you should read amore on the next page....

BWT-TOC a new Javascript Menu is an inpage table of contents (ToC). What it does is scan the page for any H2 and H3 headlines. Organizes those headlines into a list of clickable links. The initial view is of a button that says "? On his Page." (upper right corner). When clicked or tapped on a dropdown menu appears. The links take you to that section. Give it a try---->

Do you know why people call fixing broken computers, debugging? Because the first computer of any significance shorted out. When the engineers went to fix it they found a spider had crossed 2 wires in a circuit, shorting them out. They coined the term "debugging."

So, they debugged the machine and the term got hijacked by future programmers. Now, programmers call fixing their mistakes "debugging."

As if the term, debugging, let's programmers off the hook for fat fingering the keyboard or botching a critical piece of code or basically screwing the pooch. I have even heard the term used to cover for outright incompetance.

I worked with this one guy who claimed the code didn't work but he "would have it soon, just needed a little more time debugging." "How long will that take" I asked. "2 weeks minumum" he replied. So, I asked "how long have you been debugging?" And he said "6 months." I said "I would be happy to assist if you like." "No thanks" he said "I can handle it." I told him "you have 2 days to get it done, or I was going to step in."

Well, 2 days later I did step in. And, long story short that programmer turned out to be incompetant. He had fooled a dozen previous engineers into believing he knew what the problems were and how to solve them.

In the end I found a crossed wire that was giving a false reading. The programmer spent 6 months trying to rewrite perfectly good code and failed to debug the machine. He had ruled out a wiring issue all together, when that was the problem all along. All he had to do was look for spiders, I mean debug the machine.

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Did you try the ? On This Page button? I spent about 6 hours debugging this code. It is a ToC, acts like a dropdown menu and is generated from content in the page. When I add to the page it will update automatically. Which is about 4 to 10 times a month. Now, click the button--->

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