Top 5 Tips to Edit Travel Videos

Making a travel video is always enjoyable. You get to visit the most amazing places in the world as well as you get the chance to share the experience with your audience. Let’s hope they are not jealous of your life at all. Editing is very daunting when you are a beginner. A lot of people are trying it our and pushing too hard to make it look unique and original. At some point, they get exhausted because of having less knowledge about the steps and ways of editing a travel video? Are you one of them? No worries. Today, we will demonstrate the top five tips to edit travel videos or that are going to help you with your next travel shoot. Let’s know what are they.

1. Sound Effects are like wings to a viewer’s mind

Did you notice how cheese and macaroni go well together? Sound and visuals are just like them. They synchronize with each other so well. No matter what type of sound effect this is, it could be your camera’s audio recording or some foley you made out of your leisure time, you should use them as they stylize your video. There are a little ways that you can use. Here are some examples:

• For a good foreshadowing, you can add some rain streaming sound effects to your shot which is rainy and then cut to a heavy downpour.
• Toss some sound of two individuals discussing their common love of muscle vehicles over video of them really taking a shot at muscle autos.
• On the off chance that you couldn’t catch any great sound of your subject strolling in snow as they trekked a niveous feign, cornstarch or stomping is a decent substitute.

2. A Clear Point of Interest

Your group of spectators ought to consistently comprehend what they’re taking a gander at and creating shots with the goal that they have an extremely clear focal point is critical for a decent, high-vitality travel video. In any case, shouldn’t something be said about editing?
When you realize how you will edit your video, you will realize how to form your shots as well. At least with regards to how to outline your point of interest. If it’s on the correct direction of the frame, your audience will simply locate it if the following shot has the same plot.
To be more specific, keep your point of interest stay within the same area as well as the frame so that it gets easier for your audience.

3. Use Different Shooting Techniques

If you want to keep your audience interested till the end, then it’s very important to diversify your shots. Using different techniques like panning up-down, left-right, utilizing time-lapse mode, shooting from a worm eye view from different angles is the key to keep your audience until the end. It prevents them to get bored with many fancy moves with a clear point of interest. It ultimately makes your video look more professional and leave a high pitch tone in the end.

4. Smooth Transitions – Movements

People apply a bunch of ways to make their transitions smooth. But we will talk about the super important way that beginners always make the mistake over and over again.

It looks like garbage when you put two footages together and one footage has the camera movement and another doesn’t. There might be some videos that don’t look like garbage because it was made like that intentionally otherwise it would totally be a waste.

Try to add some movement to your footage if it doesn’t have any. You can add some position keyframes by cropping in and then add some motion blur or even take help from After Effects in order to create some handheld camera shake.

5. Look out for your Video’s Rhythm

Don’t be too much when you’re excited to show your audience what you have got. Keep it within a nice flow and rhythm. I always recommend starting out slow and gently drag the viewers into the experience. Then they gradually hit them faster and harder and then increasing the pace. Whether you’re going for a high-vitality video or a moderate, reflective piece, finding your musicality and pacing is completely critical to keep your crowd connected with and having a decent time.

Editing is very important for travel videos. It gives life to your video and without it, your video would not look much of a great piece of visual content. So, when you’re off to video editing, make sure you are enough careful and utilizing the necessary things and tips to make it stand out. If you follow these five top tips to edit travel videos, I am sure you’re gonna make a great travel video out of your next journey.