This was an easy to video to make.<\/strong> I grabbed my tiny mini-Dv camcorder and sat down on the floor with the puppies.\u00a0 This way I could get up close and personal.\u00a0 I shot most of it with the camera right beside the puppies with it zoomed out all the way and focused on a macro shot.\u00a0 The puppies do not have their eyes open yet so they did not even know the camera was just an inch in front of them.<\/p>\nClose-up shots looking directly into their cute little faces give the viewer the best perspective.<\/p>\n
I spent about 30 minutes videotaping them doing whatever it was they felt like doing.\u00a0 I just used window light, which was only about one foot away.\u00a0 I brightened up the room considerably by opening all the shades.\u00a0 This gave plenty of soft, diffused light.<\/p>\n
I made sure to keep my own mouth shut, so the microphone would pick up all their whimpering.\u00a0 Even their sounds are cute, and I knew I would take advantage of their natural sounds while editing.\u00a0 I ended up using their whining and whimpering during the entire finished video.\u00a0 I overlaid some toe-tapping royalty free music and mixed the two audio sources.\u00a0 I think without the natural puppy sounds, the video wouldn’t be as cute.\u00a0 But if I had left off the music, the puppy sounds alone would have gotten tiring.<\/p>\n
I had so many cute shots, I ended up using two shots on the screen at once for the entire video.\u00a0 I put the puppy shots on top of a digital juice background.\u00a0 I took the opacity of the background down to 70% in order to mute the color of it somewhat. \u00a0 A good background should not overpower the video.<\/p>\n
I softened the edges of each puppy shot and set the size at 58%.\u00a0 I put one in the top left and the other in the bottom right.\u00a0 I put a default one-second dissolve between each shot, making sure that no two shots were dissolving at the same time.<\/p>\n
I added some titles using two different fonts and two different colors.\u00a0 The style trend in graphics went to using two different fonts at the same time several years ago.\u00a0 At first I didn’t like it, I thought it looked too junked up.\u00a0 But I got used to it and it’s so common now, who am I to argue?<\/p>\n
I spent about two hours editing this one-minute video. I must say, I had a jolly good time!<\/p>\n
Please leave a comment below!\u00a0 I’d love to hear what you think.\u00a0 Now, it can be argued that these puppies are actually kind of UGLY.\u00a0 But see, with puppies, even ugly is cute. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Here is another doggie video. It’s under 20 seconds. This dog is part Husky, so loves the snow. I had to capture the joy.<\/p>\n
If you are looking for an online editing system that’s easy to use, you should check out Adobe Systems.\u00a0 Their free online video editing system is a snap to use, so you can craft stunning videos<\/a> using Adobe software.<\/p>\n