How to Create The Best Video Mashup?

Video Mashup creation involves individual creativity. This writing contain suggestions, tips and tricks in video mashup creation.

Look other video mashups for inspiration, and bring up your own idea

• Many video mashups are humorous movie trailer parodies. You may also want to consider mashing up a music video, political message, news story, instructional video, or product advertisement. You can even incorporate original footage that you shoot yourself.

Find the existing content you want to mashup as raw materials

• Find out movie(s) or video clips that you want to mashup. Use your own materials or other websites such as YouTube or other video sources to collect your materials.
• You can shoot your own footage with a videocamera, or you can also use cell-phones and point-and-shoot cameras to record video and sound.
• Preview the movies first and note the time stamps of the clips you want to use. Don't import an entire film. You will save yourself a lot of editing time (and bandwidth) if you import only the clips you plan to use in your final video.

Edit your mashup video

• You can use offline video editing tools, such as iMovie, Windows Movie Maker, Final Cut Pro, and others, to fine tune your material before upload.
• Upload all materials to Adandu, choose and arrange your clips. Remove sections that you don't need.
• iMovie (Mac only) and Windows Movie Maker (Windows only) are significantly easier to learn and use than the other two examples, and chances are that one of them is already installed on your personal computer.

Add music, effects and titles

• Digitize and convert music from various formats.
• iTunes and MP3 clips can be added to your video.
• Editing and adding audio can also be done on your personal laptop or on a public computer.
• Don't forget the credits! Opening and closing credits, not to mention vaptions in the middle of a film, can greatly add to your video's impact. List in the credits music and video you used that is not your own, just as you would in the bibliography of a term paper.

Tips and Advice

• Editing video is not a quick process. It can require a lot of time and planning, and it will probably require more than one sitting to complete. Be sure to leave yourself as much time as possible for the task, and don't wait until the last minute.
• Your video won't fit on a USB flash drive. Buy a portable hard drive. They've become cheaper than many text books.
• Websites with examples, raw material and ideas:

Source & Idea: http://wic.library.upenn.edu/multimedia/tutorials/mashup.html