How to Edit Travel Videos with VideoPad

How to Edit Travel Videos with VideoPad

You have just returned home from one of the greatest adventures of your life. Your bags are unpacked, your passport is put away and your head is filled with unforgettable vacation memories. You are probably starting to think about all of those videos you took and are now wondering what you are going to do with them all. Making travel videos is a great way to preserve and share your travel memories. With an easy-to-use video editor like VideoPad you can create stunning travel video content that you will want to watch over and over again.

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Trim Your Clips Down to the Good Stuff

The cold hard truth is that nobody is going to want to watch an hour long clip of your boat ride or surf lesson, and once you get home neither will you. One of the first things you should do with your travel footage is go through and trim your clips down to the good stuff. If you are combining clips to make a travel video, 2-3 minutes is best for Facebook and YouTube. Anything longer and you will lose people's attention. Individual clips can usually be cut down to 5-15 seconds of action. A video with many different clips is always more engaging to watch than a video with a few extremely long clips.

Trim Down Your Clips and Video

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Crop Out Unwanted Objects

So there you were, filming the perfect shot of that vacant beach, when a loan swimmer pops up out of nowhere and ruins it! Well, don't sweat it! VideoPad allows you to crop your videos so that you can keep what you want in frame and cut out all of the distractions.

Crop Out Unwanted Objects

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Add Titles and Captions

Adding titles and captions to your travel videos is a great way to make sure that you and your viewers get the extra info that may not be obvious just by looking at the scenery. It's a good idea to start a travel video with a title of the location and perhaps the date. Captions can also be used for displaying translations when someone is speaking a different language or when someone is speaking too quietly for your camera's microphone.

Add Titles and Captions to Your Travel Videos

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Add Some Music

Music is an essential component to any travel video or travel movie. Music tells your viewers how to feel when they are watching your video. Nothing sets the mood for a travel video quite like a song that reminds you of your trip. Try to find a song that is actually from the place you visited or perhaps one that is sung in the language of that country. VideoPad allows you to import music from many different sources and then adjust and edit the track as you please.

Add Music to Your Travel Video

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Use Transitions

Transitions are a great way to make your travel video feel more fluid and natural. Without transitions, the quick changes between clips will feel abrupt and jarring. VideoPad has many great transitions so that your clips flow together smoothly. Using transitions will help make your travel video look more professional and be overall more pleasant to watch.

Apply Transitions

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Share Your Videos

Now that you are finished editing your travel video, it's time to share it with the world. One of the best features of VideoPad for a vacation movie editor is that you can upload videos directly from the software to YouTube. This means you can skip filling out descriptions on YouTube and instead quickly fill them out in VidePad and post! Share your memories with the world and inspire others with your stunning world travel videos. Start a travel blog and post more travel videos as you create them and find others who share your passion.

Share Your Travel Video

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How to make a YouTube video like a pro in 5 easy steps

Things you need

• Media for your video - This could be anything from a video recording, webcam recording, stock video, just some video that you shot on your phone or camcorder, photos, slides, collages, animation clips or a mix of any of the stated options.

• A Video Editor - An intuitive, easy to use video editing software (Download VideoPad, an award winning video editor, which now has an exciting new feature - 360 editing)

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Now let's get started

Step 1

Import your media into a Video Editing Software. If the media is already a video, you can upload it to YouTube as is, but it's always a good practice to clean up the video to make it sharp, crisp and web friendly before upload. Also, to make it more visually appealing by adding stunning video transitions and effects.

VideoPad - Add Media

Step 2

Once you import your footage, the next step is to make it more exciting by editing the various media pieces together so it plays like a movie.

You may want to do one or more of the following

• Adjust the resolution - For an HD video 1280*720 is a good resolution to work with whereas for places where you want to load the video quickly you may want to opt for a lower resolution.
• Edit Clip Speed - Get rid of unnecessary frames, play the video slower where more detail and emphasis is required.
• Add Transitions and Effects - Apply transitions when switching from frame to frame, add effects for a professional touch.
• Content Frames - If you plan to divide your video into different sections then adding content frames is a good idea, it lets the viewer know what the next part of the video is all about.
• Add background score, audio recording, music, commentary or narration to your video.
• Overlay text for captions and movie credits

You can find tutorials for adding media, effects, changing clip speeds, adding a logo or watermark, and adding text to your video here : https://www.nchsoftware.com/videopad/tutorial.html?ref=blog

Step 3

Take a final look at the To-be YouTube video and enhance it - fine tune colours and visual effects, slow down, speed up or reverse video clip playback, reduce camera shakes. Make sure you get the same experience as you get while watching a movie.

Step 4

Export your video to YouTube, some video editors let you export the video directly to YouTube if you have connected the account already.

VideoPad - Export Video

Otherwise you can just save the video in the best suited format - a format which is accepted by Youtube and one which is lossless.

Step 5

Log into your YouTube account and upload the video. Optimise the video for YouTube and the web by adding notations, annotations and captions. You can also add a transcript which appears below the YouTube video as well.

Now you are all set to show the world your movie making skills - Go ahead and share it with the world using FB, Instagram or share the YouTube link on other sites.

Wasn't that EASY ... :)

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