How to edit a vlog

How can you improve a vlog through editing? Here are my 10 bits of practical advice...

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SUMMARY
1. Put silences in the right place
2. Use two frame transitions
3. Match shoot and output FPS
4. Find music online
5. Use EQ to avoid music drowning you out
6. Learn about audio mastering
7. Don't just think chronologically
8. Use zoom/cropping as a tool
9. Cut on movement
10. Learn by making mistakes!

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LINKS:
- Incompetech: incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/collections.php
- David Cutter: dcuttermusic.bandcamp.com/
- Audacity: audacityteam.org/
- Casey's channel: youtube.com/user/caseyneistat
- Every frame a painting: youtube.com/user/everyframeapainting
- Akira Kurosawa video: youtube.com/watch?v=doaQC-S8de8
- My first vlog (for reference, I wasn't kidding when I said it was terrible!): youtube.com/watch?v=Ny-7KnkhPKM

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Music by: David Cutter Music - www.davidcuttermusic.co.uk

Filmed on my Canon G7X. Editing done in Premiere.

Huge thanks to my supporters on Patreon: Samuel Rose, Frederic Ysewijn, Kane Thynne, Eve Dillon, Rowan Gow, Rikke Norgaard Christiansen, Daniel Martin, Matthias Loos, James Bridges, Hanna Scott, James Craig, Angela Cook, Sanaa Al Derei, Mark Anthony Magro, Maddie Sisk, Liam Farrar, Theresa Wang, Hunter Jones, Nathan Smith, Kieran Kelly, Wendover Productions, Kendra Johnson, Caitlin Louise, and Real Engineering.

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I am Simon, a fourth year PhD candidate at the University of Exeter. I upload videos on bits of science which are relevant to what I do, and sometimes just because they're really cool.

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