editing Articles

Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, and film media used to convey information through the processes of correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications performed with an intention of producing a correct, consistent, accurate, and complete work.
The editing process often begins with the author’s idea for the work itself, continuing as a collaboration between the author and the editor as the work is created. As such, editing is ...

Corel Video Studio Pro X4 - Video Editing Software Review

We talk about video, how to get it online, how to help people find it. But we rarely ever talk about the software for actually making, editing and putting it all together. So I got my hands on some video editing suites including the Corel ...

Is Apple Building Their Own YouTube Competitor (iVideo)?

Steve Rosenbaum, the CEO of Magnify.net and the author of Curation Nation, has an interesting editorial piece over at The Huffington Post today where he suggests an intriguing new service might be in the works at Apple: a YouTube killer. He cites several pieces of ...

Crowdsourced Video Is On The Rise: Interview With Stroome

I only found out about Stroome last week--and promptly wrote up an article about their approach to collaborative video editing and creation. Imagine my surprise when co-founder, Tom Grasty, reached out to let me know they were launching a new-and-improved version of the service this ...

Pepsi Shows Us The Wrong Way To Fake A Viral Video

One of the most popular ways for brands to reach huge audiences with online video is to create a clip that begs the question, "Was that real or fake?" When an event in a video is so amazing and so unbelievable that audiences aren't sure ...

Can Collaborative Online Video Creation Go Mainstream? Stroome Hopes So

Are you familiar with Stroome? I was introduced to the service this week, and I think they might be onto something. Stroome is a collaborative video editing service, where users can share clips or partial videos with friends and other members in order to get ...

Vimeo Finally Launches iPhone App & It's Totally Worth The Wait

Vimeo has been working on an iPhone app for a long time, determined to make it as good as possible. And from the sound of it, they've succeeded, which means the wait has been worth it. Today Vimeo has released a free iPhone app that ...

YouTube Quietly Adds Image Stabilization Tool To Help You Correct Shaky Video

YouTube made things a whole lot easier for the amateur video creator last year when they rolled out a free, bare-bones video editor (named, not surprisingly, YouTube Editor). Not all filmmakers can afford Final Cut Pro or another of the top video editing software suites, ...

Android Tablets Make Waves, But Is It Too Late To Catch iPad?

When the original iPad launched, there was a great deal of skepticism regarding it's viability--was the world ready for tablet computing? Clearly, Apple has been proven right in that matter, laughing all the way to the bank. And the reviews and early sales of iPad ...

How Microsoft Uses Video to Increase Employee Productivity

Did you know that Microsoft has their own YouTube? No, I don't mean Bing Videos. I mean Academy Mobile. Never heard of it? Me neither, until I read this piece yesterday at Ragan.com. Academy Mobile is just like YouTube--users can upload videos, rate videos, comment ...

How Effective Are Your Video Marketing & Video SEO Efforts? Measure Your Online Video Grade

Video has quickly become the most in-demand content variety on the web, which has businesses, individuals, marketers, and consultants scrambling embracing video in a major way. They're starting YouTube channels, embedding clips on blogs and corporate websites, and even sharing video links on Twitter and ...

We Already Have The World's First iPad 2 Movie

You may remember Majek Pictures--the filmmaking duo of Anna Elizabeth James and Michael Koerbel. They're the ones that made waves last June by shooting and editing a short film, "Apple of My Eye," entirely on the iPhone 4. That film has nearly a million views ...

What SEO Experts Advise for Those Penalized By Google's Farmer Update

Mark's down at SMX San Jose this week, rubbing elbows with some of the SEO industry's top authorities, and the most-discussed topic or theme is easily the recent Google algorithm update. Most of the industry has taken to calling it the "Farmer Update," a nod ...

Adobe Releases Wallaby Flash to HTML Converter Preview

The cool tool I wrote about some time back from Adobe that will allow you to take your Flash and transport it to HTML will get a preview release today. While it might not be amazingly cool, it could certainly help all those Flash programmers ...

Motorola's Honeycomb-Based Xoom: The Most Attractive Tablet Device for Video Is Available Now

One of the most anticipated devices in the emerging tablet market, the Motorola Xoom, is now available for preorder at BestBuy.com. The Xoom will be the first device to feature the new Honeycomb version of the Android operating system, which was specifically designed with tablet ...

Honeycomb Tablets Are Already Better Than iPads... for Video Marketers

Remember when the iPad was announced, and I wrote about how useless it seemed for people like us that deal with video all the time? Most readers skipped the fact that I was writing about the device from a video standpoint and just labeled me ...