Custom Thumbnails, Annotations, and Cards OH MY! YouTube Tips & Tricks Part 2

Custom Thumbnails, Annotations, and Cards OH MY! YouTube Tips & Tricks Part 2

In celebration of my YouTube channel rolling over 1000 subscribers, I have devoted blog posts and videos to how to get your GoPro videos (or any kind of video) found and watched on YouTube. This is part two! And we’re talking custom thumbnails, plus annotations (huh?) and YouTube cards (double huh?).

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3 Mistakes That Make Your Videos Look SUPER Cheesy

Oh boy. Now, I’m not one to criticize your personal home movies or rad GoPro videos. So, why start now? Well, because I want people to enjoy watching your videos. Your family, friends, random strangers on the internet (example: me) – videos are fun to watch, and usually the moments worth capturing in video are…

3 Mistakes I Used to Make when I first Started Editing Home Movies
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3 Mistakes I Used to Make when I first Started Editing Home Movies

I want to tell you what I was doing wrong when I first started editing home vidoes and why it was taking me forever. FOR. EVER. First of all, I was getting bogged down in the details of the software, instead of just using the basic editing techniques that all editing platforms have. I was trying to…

Premiere Elements 13 – First Look at Adobe Premiere Elements
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Premiere Elements 13 – First Look at Adobe Premiere Elements

In last week’s post, we had a little talk about GoPro Studio and just one of its limitations. For editing family videos and home movies, you will probably want a piece of software that is a little more robust, without going full pro. Take a look at Adobe Premiere Elements 13 with me, as I…

Should I start a YouTube channel for my kids to create their own videos?

Should I start a YouTube channel for my kids to create their own videos?

This is something I’ve been contemplating a lot lately. My oldest daughter, who is eight years old, sees me creating videos for my own blog and youtube channel, and she started to show interest in what I’m doing. So I kind of poked around to see what she would think about being in a video on…

How To Get Videos From Your iPhone (or ANY phone!) Onto Your Computer - THE EASY WAY
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How To Get Videos From Your iPhone (or ANY phone!) Onto Your Computer – THE EASY WAY

This is one of my favorite tricks. For some reason, it seems super high tech to non-techy people but you guys: IT. IS. SUPER. SIMPLE. Ladies and Gentlemen, Dropbox is your friend. I promise. Dropbox is free (totally), and it’s easy to install on your Mac or PC and your phone. It’s SUPER easy way to…

Shooting Videos (and Photos) on your iPhone: Horizontal vs Vertical
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Quick Tip: Shooting on your iPhone [You're Doing it Wrong]

When I’m out and about, I observe people doing it wrong. And I have to to refrain from tapping them on the shoulder and correcting them… the struggle is real. This is one of those things that you either get it or you don’t. It’s not a new concept… not by a long shot. Bloggers…

Free Software for Editing Home Movies - GoProMom

Free Software for Editing Videos and Home Movies

Is there FREE video editing software out there? You bet. And yes, you can create digital home movies with any of them! Here’s a little run down of some of the free software available to you to edit home movies. See vidpromom.com/software where I list a whole bunch of  video editing software available to people like…

Making Home Movies is A Lot Easier Than You Think

Making Home Movies is A Lot Easier Than You Think

It sounds complicated, overwhelming, time-consuming, and expensive… but it doesn’t have to be. Let me show you JUST how easy it is… click here to watch the video on youtube. All video editing really is, is taking your clips, and putting them together into an editing program. Take out all the bad parts, all the…