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    From Utopian Galt@21:4/108 to All on Fri Jun 2 11:09:25 2023
    How would I do on screen graphics for my videos? I am thinking of creating a bi-weekly video podcast since I work full time and i dont have time to do this weekly. Anyone know of any good tools?


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  • From Adept@21:2/108 to Utopian Galt on Fri Jun 2 18:22:37 2023
    How would I do on screen graphics for my videos? I am thinking of
    creating a bi-weekly video podcast since I work full time and i dont
    have time to do this weekly. Anyone know of any good tools?

    I haven't done anything more interesting than splicing videos and adding things that say, "part 2" or whatever on the screen, but it's DaVinci Resolve.

    I also played around with things like having a stabilized video from something I took while walking.

    I'm not sure what other people use, etc., but at least for fairly basic purposes it's free and pretty capable.

    I think other people might use OBS Studio somehow, but I've really only used that for recording calls on Microsoft Teams, at work.

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  • From Blue White@21:4/134 to Utopian Galt on Sat Jun 3 09:41:53 2023
    Utopian Galt wrote to All <=-

    How would I do on screen graphics for my videos? I am thinking of
    creating a bi-weekly video podcast since I work full time and i dont
    have time to do this weekly. Anyone know of any good tools?

    That depends on what type of "graphics" you are shooting for. If you are simply looking to create title screens or text that show on a video (like a watermark, for example), you can create the screens using a tool like The
    GIMP and then place them into your video.

    There are plenty of how-to videos and sites out there that helped me figure
    it out.

    For creating the actual videos, I use Shotcut or Openshot. Both have
    effects you can use, although I only usually use the video fade in/out,
    audio fade in/out, and volume gain. Shotcut seems to be more forgiving of slighly older hardware. If I want to save the video in 1080p, I use Shotcut
    as on my hardware Openshot only allows a max of 720p. Any higher and the
    saved video comes out jumpy and garbled.

    I am running these utilities on a linux box, so you mileage may vary on
    other oses. There are a lot of videos out there that helped me with these
    two utilities also.


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