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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."
2. Never miss an opportunity to promote yourself with other keywords in your blog posts, social media or website ads. Even if it seems grandios this approach trains the internet to recognise you as an influencer.
3. Find your service on fiverr.com The Ad here will demonstrate what the freelance profession has to offer.

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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HumanPal Episode 4 Revisited features new special effects introduced in Camtasia 2025 My favorite video editor. And oh boy, are they ever way cool. New cursor effects turn boring screen captures into a fun experience. In the past the cursor looked like a small annoying hard to follow thing of neccessity. Now it is a dynamic attention grabbing, fun, easy to follow star of the show. Check out this HumanPal video to see what I mean...

HumanPal Episode 4 Revisited

Cursor effects can be applied to the pointer, left clicks and right clicks. I wanted to explain all of them but that would be a lot to digest all in one blog. So I made this nifty slider below. You can see many of those effects used in the video above. Meanwhile check out the slider images to grasp what I am referring to.

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1. Kinetic Cursor Camtasia 2025 introduces kinetic motion to cursor movement. The pointer tail lags behind the tip when moved, illustrating movement in a forward direction. Combine this with cursor smoothing and all your cursor movements look ideal with no misses or overshoots or shakey mouse, when locating the next click. I this cursor special effect.
2. Burst 1,2,3,4 are new click effects design to show expanding rays of color at the moment the mouse is clicked. There are 4 different options to choose from. Combine this effect with click sound and every click is emphasized visually and audily.
3. Torn Edge is a new border visual effect. You can see it in the video above. In this video the background screen capture clips have the "Torn Edge" effect applied.
4. Properties Panel displays all the different attributes you can adjust. Camtasia 2025 has an abundance of control over all the visual, cursor and audio effects. Combine this with 10 years of experience at video editing and I can make all your videos dazzle with brilliance. Find out how I can make your video...

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I was recalling an incident I had at a company years ago. Long story short is the first thing I did was read the companies mission statement and signed their NDA (non-disclosure agreement). You should know what the company policies are when you work with them. I then proceeded to map out a strategy to fulfill an RFQ (request for quote) to design a new conveyor system for a tier 1 customer.

I explained how I started by deep diving their engineering database to see what information was already there, that would be applicible to the new project. And a VP (vice president) of the company blew up.

This guy got really angry at me for doing a tried and proven engineering method. He thought engineers should NOT be allowed to scutinize knowledge of past engineering. That it would up-end his authority to control the project. How dumb is that?

Anyways, after explaining why he was wrong and how his attitude could ruin the companies trust, he got even madder and said I didn't know what I was talking about. In the end he got fired and I got the RFQ. Which later turned into several follow on projects from the same tier 1 company.

I explained that the mission statement along with the NDA encourages trust between customers and compaines. And they foster internal trust and idea sharing among the staff and especially the engineers. Without that trust customers and staff, especially the engineers, would flee the company like rats from a sinking ship.

So, I researched modern NDA's and mission statements and added them to my own business. Here is the mission statement I came up with.

I also updated my Policies page as well. You can see that here...

Can you believe it took almost a month to create this next AI animated avatar video? It did. I wanted to try out Paul Ponna's new TalkingPhotos app. An AI avatar generator with some pretty cool features. Have a look at this next video to see what I did...

AI Animated Avatars Pros & Cons

All in all I would say real positive things about this app. But need more experience with it to think of using it for a customers video, just yet. There are many more pros than cons for this app so I am going to give it a thumbs up with the caveat that you might not always get what you hoped for. On a brighter side the avatar generation is amazing and can only get better. Check it out for yourself here...

Natalie an AI generated avatar presents Dynamic Captions Promo. Learn how to add dynamic captions to your next video.

Natailie was created using an AI Avatar generating app. With it I can upload a photo and/or specify attributes with a prompt. In Natalie's case I did both. With this technology we can now make avatars from a photo. Are you looking to make an avatar of yourself? Upload a photo.

However, there are restrictions to making an avatar from a photo. First you an't spoof any known celebrity, politician or person without thier explicit permission. Second you have to follow the terms of service. Which state that NO hate, religious, political, sexist, mean or crude language can be used.

I did mention these avatars come with text to speech conversion with lip sync. We can even do singing and dancing avatars. Simply write a script or upload a song or voice over file.

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