Top Technical Things That Confuse Vidders (fan video editors)

There are a lot of links to other tutorials on that page. The tutorials I link to will work on both Mac and PC, in software like iMovie, Final Cut, Sony Vegas, Corel VideoStudio, Adobe Premiere.

Video and tutorial page cover issues like interlacing (those weird horizontal lines that go through a video), bad quality and how to get it better, aspect ratio (of course! LOL), how to get rid of the black letterbox bars at the top and bottom of your video, audio that is choppy or breaks up in parts, software crashing, not accepting AVI files, or having a black screen, the difference between PAL and NTSC, etc.

Don't feel bad if you didn't know some of this stuff, how can you know if no one tells you?

I don't know why I felt the need to make this tutorial at this particular time, but I just felt the impulse! LOL.

CORRECTIONS: I know I spelled some words wrong! GAH! I'm not going to re-edit the whole video for that! Sorry!

Clips from Robin Hood and Spooks, with Richard Armitage. Video editing in Final Cut Pro 7.

[Saffronkelvin]

Thanks, Elvira!
You're tutorials are always so helpful!
SK;-)

[immadeofatoms]

I've made a few of these errors. I know better now! Thanks E!

[AisicsRule]

Whoo hoo! Definitely rules that every vidder must know. Big <3 's for the fifth one! :D Go Lagarith!! I love it so much!

[tisreina]

Another fantastic tutorial, thanks! Maybe someday my techno challenged brain will make sense of it all! lol. ;)

[bradersboop]

On one of the videos on my channel the thumbnail looks fine, and the preview in the editing section is fine, but when you play the video, it is squashed from the top and bottom and I get these black bars. does anyone know the solution? I have been surfing trying to find an answer with no avail, lots of people say use code but for some reason even that inst working!