Photoshop & Video

[KmH]

Some things I have learned since I started editing video using Photoshop:

• Edit & then render each clip individually before putting clips together into a single video.
• Make sure you have lots of scratch disc space.
• There are several ways to add text.
• Finding 'good' free audio soundtrack material is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

In the following video I put most of the text on a 6x2 50% transparent white background that I also added a gradient to.
It was easy to change, and save the text each time I needed to as a JPEG image that was then transformed (using a key frame) and placed in a second Video group as appropriate .

 

[VincentPaul]

Nice. Have you tried Adobe Premiere? If you're good with photoshop already Premiere would be easy to understand and allow you to do so much more with video. Just a thought, but nice video nonetheless.

 

[CherylL]

I like how you shot the video from the back car. We lived in Denver in the 80's and behind our house was the Coor's spur line. Good thing the train only ran during the daytime hours.

Yes! Looking for music is a needle in a haystack. Some sites you can search by genre to tempo. A few music site suggestions:

Moby gratis - free for personal use
mobygratis
Kevin MacLeod - free for personal use
Free Music Archive: Kevin MacLeod
Audiosocket - $2 for personal use
Audiosocket | Music Licensing Solutions For All Media
Jamendo - $4 or $5 for personal use
Jamendo Music | Free music downloads

Each license varies for attribution.