Neil Arun didn’t want to miss a rare but risky opportunity to embed with an Iraqi police unit, hunting members of al Qaeda. But his employers -- responsible for Neil’s security -- weren’t happy. This film by Richard Pendry nvestigates how a frontline journalist balances risk and reward.
YouTube has just released a new video editor that lets you edit clips from your library of existing video uploads. The new service enables you to edit together separate clips, as well as add or change the background music using YouTube’s commercial AudioSwap library of licensed songs. The features are fairly basic, but nonetheless represent an amazing jump forward in terms of the YouTube offer. You can trim individual clips and then arrange them in a timeline. You can also adjust the audio as a separate track. When you have produced your new clip, you can publish it online to your YouTube account. Social media blog Mashable quotes YouTube as saying, “We wanted something really, really easy for our users to use. YouTube has found that users often just want to trim their videos or create longer montages from a number of clips”. The new YouTube video editor is going to be particularly useful to people who capture video on mobile phones, iphones etc. Instead of transferring their footage to a computer, editing it and then uploading, they can now upload and then make a few tweaks. Another advantage is that all the processing is happening on YouTube’s servers, so you won’t need a powerful computer and lots of storage. When I started working in TV back in the early 1990s, editing a couple of shots together required a room full of electronics costing many hundreds of thousands of pounds operated by a specialist VT Editor. When you consider that, the YouTube video editor is a breathtaking development. Graham Majin is Head of Video Production at Kent video production and Kent Video Marketing Agency http://www.kwikvid.com and http://www.kershmedia.co.uk
