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we're gonna take a look at WeVideo,
the online video editing platform,
and work out if it's the best online video editor for you.
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So, let's jump into it.
Now, there's a few options out there
when it comes to creating and editing your videos online,
and there's a few disadvantages and advantages with each.
In this video, we're gonna take a look at WeVideo,
and we're gonna cover my favorite features,
and work out whether it's the best solution for you,
and make sure you stick around to the end,
'cause I'm gonna cover what I think is
the most powerful feature in WeVideo,
and how you can use it to take your videos
up a notch in efficiency and production right away.
So, starting off with the advantages,
or the stuff that I like about it.
As a video editor in general, it's actually
a really, really powerful, really intuitive,
really easy to use video application,
video editing application.
So, the biggest advantage beyond that is
it actually runs in the cloud, or runs in
your web browser, so you don't actually need to
have a powerful computer.
You don't need to install any software.
All the hard processing or number crunching
is all done at their end, because it's all edited online.
So, that is a huge benefit.
So, not only is it an awesome editor,
it's something that you don't need to have
a powerful computer to be able to use.
The flow and advantages from that mean that
because it is an online cloud based editing solution
that you can actually get your team,
or your clients, or really anyone involved
in the editing process to be able to get quick feedback,
and to be able to share project files,
and footage, and video assets really, really easy
in a team or larger than one person environment,
so that you can really get your videos dialed in
and edited efficiently and quickly.
So how the collaboration works is you can
either give access to your media files,
or your media assets, your video footage,
your music and templates, so that they can use those
and create videos for you, or you can give them access
to your timelines and share access between timelines,
or video projects, and work on them collaboratively,
which means that they might start the edit.
You can then jump in and make some changes.
Then it could go back to them for finishing.
So, the whole workflow of being online
and sharing project files, and projects themselves,
and timelines themselves is a massive, massive feature.
The process of getting your footage up into WeVideo
for editing is really, really seamless,
and really, really powerful, as well.
You can directly import videos from places
like DropBox or Google Drive, or Box.
You can actually even import media files
from social media platforms like Instagram,
and Facebook, as well.
So, they make it really, really easy for you
to get your video files in, but they also make it
really, really easy to get your files out
after you've completed editing
or making changes to your videos.
When you're ready to save out,
or to export your video files,
you've got options for 720p, 1080p, and 4K.
That's the quality of the export.
We can also export directly then to places
like Vimeo, YouTube, Google Drive,
DropBox, Box, and even direct to Facebook, as well,
and the beauty of this is that you don't need
to download your completed video file to your computer,
and then re-upload it to one of these locations.
As they're all online services, the files stay online,
which means that you don't need to download
your files and then wait for them to re-upload
to each of these platforms, which is really, really cool.
The next thing that I like about WeVideo
that I just touched on there was it supports 4K videos.
It supports 4K video files for you to upload,
and edit, right through to export.
So, that's really cool.
There are some other services out there at the moment
that will allow 4K upload, but your end video files,
you'll still be capped at exporting at 1080p.
So, to have access to a complete end to end solution,
full 4K videos right through from import to export,
that's really powerful, and it's something
that's really amazing that is done all through
the cloud, as well.
The next feature is something that I think is
really, really game changing, especially in this space,
and that's having the ability to be able to edit
your video files while they're uploading.
So, you open up WeVideo.
Your importing your footage into your timeline.
You select the videos that you want to import,
or to upload, and they start uploading,
and you get direct access to start editing
those videos, uses your local versions of those files
while they're uploading.
The moment that the upload has finished,
it automatically switches over in your timeline
to use the uploaded version, which means then
that you can pick it up and continue editing
on any of your devices, or any of your team members,
or anyone that you've given access to
can keep working on your project from there.
So, that is an absolute game changer when it comes
to online video editing.
We've even tested this out using 4K, 100 megabit files
from a Panasonic GH4, from the camera
that I'm using right here, and the upload was quick.
So, obviously we had good internet at our end.
Their service were quick.
The whole process was seamless, and we even
put it through it's paces, and we disconnected
the hard drive.
We actually closed WeVideo.
We unplugged the hard drive before the upload had finished,
and what I thought was really powerful then
was when I opened up WeVideo, it recognized that
the file hadn't finished uploading, and it forced me
to go and look for that file, locate that file
so it could continue the upload so that
it could be used in the project.
So, it's the little things, but that's a huge,
huge feature that will save a heap of time
on the video production process.
So, as you can tell, I'm pretty excited about WeVideo.
I think it is the future of video editing.
It may not have all the features there
of something that you'd find in Adobe Premiere
right now, but it doesn't need it.
It has an awesome offering to enable you to create
some really, really great video content,
even in 4K seamlessly using devices,
or laptops, or computers that aren't as powerful
as what you would normally need
to be able to edit those files.
It's really come a long way, and it's growing fast.
Some of the other really cool features include
really powerful built in effects,
and there's a heap of transitions in there, as well,
but the effects, like the green screen effect
was something that really blew me away.
I've been doing a lot of work with green screen.
You've probably seen a heap of videos on this channel
about green screen, but editing green screen videos
using WeVideo was something that I thought
probably it would do an okay job,
and nothing really special.
It actually did a much better job than some
much higher paid, more professional,
what you would think, editing programs have done.
So, the green screen effect alone
was something that really blew me away,
but the effects in general, and the way that
everything is so intuitive, and so easy to find
and navigate, and apply in your videos
is something that is definitely worth checking out,
'cause I'm sure if you try it you won't be
disappointed with WeVideo.
Now, this definitely isn't a paid promotion.
It may seem like it.
I'm pretty pumped on WeVideo, because of
where I've seen it come from, where it was
a couple of years back to where it is now
is just awesome, and the innovation that these guys have,
and the amount of features that they're constantly adding,
but it's not just bells and whistles.
These are features that actually make your video production
process much, much quicker, and I will jump to
the biggest feature, or the biggest tool
that I think is gonna be a game changer
with WeVideo moving forward very shortly.
Before I get to that, it's also really important to note
that you can also do screen capture in WeVideo,
directly from your web browser, and you can do
video recording through your webcam, as well.
So, this brings it up in line then
with what you can do with software
like Screenflow and Camtasia.
So, if you're gonna be doing videos where
you're gonna be recording your screen,
like a presentation, or you want to talk directly
to your computer and to your audience that way,
then this allows you to do it directly
from your web browser, as well.
Now, I'm definitely not covering off
all the features here in this video.
I'm just looking at the standout features for me,
as someone who likes to edit efficiently,
and speed up the editing process.
What are the best tools, the tools that everyone
should be looking for when they're testing,
and trialing, and using their editing software.
So, there's a heap of other things in there, as well,
like important things that you'd expect to find,
like to be able to create slow motion versions
of your videos, or to slow down and speed up your clips.
All of that is in there, as well,
but the most important thing to realize here
is that typically for an online cloud based
editing program like WeVideo, your internet speed
would be the barrier, and I know that we did
a video a while back talking about
cloud based editing solutions.
You can check out the video linked up here now,
and the biggest thing is the internet speed.
If your internet speed isn't good,
then your whole editing experience,
and getting your files up into the platform
is going to be very hard, and very restricted
and frustrating.
So, I really like that WeVideo have taken the time
to give you alternatives, or to put things in place
to help you speed up that process,
and remove the pain, and that's something that
none of the others have done.
So, being able to start editing your video files
while they're uploading is a huge, huge step forward.
I can't stress this enough.
When I saw that this feature was there,
it really makes you consider this
for a lot more video editing projects, as well.
I know in the original video, the one I just linked up,
we said that this wouldn't suitable for things
like documentaries, or larger form projects,
and it was purely based on the internet speeds,
and the amount of time it would take to get
all that content up there, but if you're able to
start working on your project while the upload is
happening in the background, then it does
open it up for larger form projects, as well,
especially with the major benefit
of being able to collaborate on those larger projects
with your team anywhere in the world
based on it all being stored in the cloud.
So, that's something that I'd like to
have as an update in there.
I think that's a really, really powerful feature,
and really it's something that's yeah.
It blew me away that it was there.
So, those are all the things that I really,
really like about WeVideo.
Actually there's one more feature that
I'm gonna mention in a minute that I also think
is a real game changer, and is gonna really improve
your video production process, and how your
videos look, as well, but as for the things
that I think aren't quite there yet,
there's two of them.
The first is the color correction capabilities.
Now really, if you're filming everything right,
and you got your lighting right, and everything,
then the color correction you'll need to do
will be minimal.
So, the built in color correction in WeVideo is good,
but it's not great.
You get control over your brightness, over your contrast,
and your saturation, and your hue,
or the actual color, overall color of the image,
which is what you would expect to find
in basic video editing software.
So, I guess I'm really nitpicking here,
but it would be absolutely awesome
if there was some more advanced color correction tools.
I know that there's built in effects, as well,
that you can apply filters, as if you would
on Instagram or another social platform,
but as for color correction, I think this is
the one place that WeVideo is lacking,
but it's not really a big deal.
As I said, most people, these tools
would be enough to get great results,
but with the rest of the features that you're seeing
in WeVideo now, you actually start to compare
WeVideo to higher up, and more professional
video editing platforms, like Final Cut, and Premiere,
and I think the biggest thing they have
that WeVideo is missing, or is on the lacking side
a little bit, is the color correction,
but the other thing is the playback,
and because you are playing back your video files
when you're editing using your browser, and using the cloud,
they're actually generating what's called a proxy file,
or a low resolution file.
Now this all adds to the performance,
and makes it quick for you to edit,
and makes everything seamless, and work really, really well,
but the downside is is that the quality of
the preview isn't there.
So, if you want to get really into the finer details,
and really see a true representation of what
you're actually editing, then the video that
you're shown when you're playing back your video
is a much lower quality than what your
end result will be.
So, this is all well and good for most videos,
but when you're applying things like
the green screen effect, or you're making color adjustments,
or adding on any other effect where you really
want to see what it looks like as the highest
quality output, like what the end product
is going to look like pixel for pixel,
then that's where I think the WeVideo playback
and using proxy files falls down a little bit.
Now, there is a way around it.
You can do a preview, or an export of that section
to see what it looks like so that you're not
totally left in the dark until you've done
your final export, but it would be nice
to have some sort of optional control
to preview a high quality, or a full quality version
of that video at that point, whether it's just
a single frame to make sure that everything
is how it looks, or just a small chunk of your video,
then that would be probably on my wish list
for editing in WeVideo, but definitely not deal breakers.
Really, seriously, jump on and give it a go,
because I'm sure you'll be blown away
with what you can do.
That fact that you can now edit 4K video files,
and professional videos using a Chromebook,
and using devices that really have not much power in them,
is really, really awesome.
Now, in regards to the one feature that I said
I'd share with you that is a real game changer
that I haven't mentioned so far in this video.
It's a new addition to WeVideo,
and it really is a game changer.
It's something that's going to help you produce
videos faster, and have really professional looking videos,
and that's the new title tool.
Now this is something that on sort of
entry level video editing software,
I'd stay well clear of, but what WeVideo are actually doing,
and what they're building here is something
that's pretty awesome.
You can drop in motion titles, or animated titles,
directly into your projects without having to use
software like After Effects, or Apple Motion
to be able to create yours, and then bring it in,
and go through all those logistics.
You can actually just drag and drop
awesome motion title graphics onto your videos
directly in WeVideo, and you can customize them up, as well.
You have the ability to change the colors,
move everything around, and really tailor them up
for your brand, and this is something that
is a new addition to WeVideo, and I think it is
the most powerful feature, because titles
are something that a lot of people
just take for granted, but they're not in
most video editing software.
We've got videos on how to create them Adobe Premiere,
and how to create them in Final Cut,
and these are big videos that take you through
step by step how to do it.
I mean, if you're looking for that,
there's a link up there, but the fact that
this is in WeVideo, and it's how easy it is,
and the way that they've implemented this,
and made it so seamless and logical to be able
to create titles in there, and titles that look good,
they're not those cheesy, really cheap looking titles,
these guys have put some time into researching
the ones that people want, the ones that people are using,
and the level of customization and control
that you would want when you're adding titles
to your videos.
They've also got a video, which we will put
a link in the description, showing you
how they've used this feature to really
create some really cool looking videos and titles,
just using this title tool in WeVideo.
So, it's really powerful, and you've got the ability
to stack titles on top of one another
so that you can easily build things like checklists,
or have your video made completely of animated titles.
So, in regards to pricing, you've got three options.
There is a free option.
There is a $4.99 per month power plan,
and there's also a $7.99 per month unlimited plan.
So, this is something that is definitely
not gonna break the bank, and when you look at
all the features, and the tools that you get access to,
it's really insanely cheap.
So, now that we've covered off the advantages,
and the disadvantages, who is WeVideo good for?
Well, I think WeVideo is an awesome
online editing application for anyone
that's looking to create videos fast,
or is looking to create videos on the go,
and be moving around, someone who doesn't
want to spend the money on a huge video editing system,
something really, really powerful,
and be paying huge monthly subscriptions
for software like Adobe Premiere,
or paying an outright fee for something like Final Cut.
So, your barrier to entry, and your barrier
to creating videos is much, much simpler,
and cheaper if you opt for something like WeVideo,
and you've got all the features, and the tools
that you'd expect to find in much more expensive software.
If you're gonna be creating videos using
really professional cameras, then I don't think
WeVideo is for you yet, but for everybody else,
I'd suggest that you at least get a free account
and give it a go, 'cause you'll probably find
that some of the videos you're creating,
WeVideo will be the perfect solution for.
So, those are my thoughts on WeVideo.
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