TubeWiz video tutorials ...
Look how easy it is!
We've made a series of video tutorials and put them on YouTube.
See how it's done for real, on a general, "cooking" PC, without special video cards
or loads of clever stuff. Our tutorial videos are as near to real-time as we can reasonably make them.
There are no tricks - watch TubeWiz do its thing, but don't forget to download
it for free and try it yourself!
The example videos we used are also on YouTube, so you can see what they look like too (they're listed at
the bottom of this page).
Meanwhile, here are some Tiny TubeWiz Tutorials (TTTs):
So you've got this video... but you want it neat and tidy... and you need to get rid of that
bit in the middle where Henry pulled a face... Click here for the tutorial (5m44s).
It's our town carnival... The video is OK, but the ends need to look really good too... I need classy titles, and
I need it all yesterday, because my friends want to see it NOW! Click here for the tutorial (3m36s).
Uploading? How do I do that? TubeWiz uses special code to upload directly to YouTube's servers
behind-the-scenes. You don't even need a web browser open! It's reliable, fast, and you can do other stuff while it's happening. Click here for the tutorial (3m53s).
I've only got pictures, not video! You can still put them on YouTube, with TubeWiz! See how fast it is to make a
professional-looking show, and even add a soundtrack. Click here for the tutorial (4m10s).
Example Videos
Here are the examples we used in the tutorials:
- "Horror
Express! Tango Juvenile Carnival Club's 2008 cart" (1m30s) This is a
carnival float from Wells Carnival in Somerset, UK. It's used in the first two videos to demonstrate editing,
and how to add titles and captions. It's
also the one that's uploaded in TTT#3.
- "Table-Tennis
World Championships" This shows just how easily
you can make a video from stills, adding music and titles. I wish I could play table-tennis that well!
It's only 54 secs long—enjoy!
Other TubeWiz videos:
- "Mundo Parade", Aliens CC. Wells, 14.11.08 (1m34s) Another
superb Wells Carnival float from the most recent town carnival.
- "Our Solar Heating", by Lizzie & Steph (4m23s)
This wasn't made entirely in TubeWiz, but it shows how you can use DFace for animated
captions, and how you can make nice title sequences over still frames. Has superb low-tech
graphics (thanks Steph!). There will be more on using DFace in a later tutorial...
- "UFO at the Bristol Balloon Fiesta" This is three
seconds of total silliness, all made in TubeWiz, using DFace to overlay and animate the bus.
It shows what happens if you don't keep well away from beer. The hit-count worries us though:
it looks like far too many people think it's genuine!
"Cornering the
Lion King" (1m34s) This is another carnival video that wasn't all done in TubeWiz, because of the sound re-mix,
but the titling and uploading etc. was. I've only included it because it's short and fun!
The guy's driving is amazing. The people walking alongside
have headsets to talk him through the corners (this one is the worst corner on the route!).
Floats are known officially as a "carts" because the carnivals go back to
horsedrawn days. This one is around 80ft long, in three sections, with probably half
a megawatt of sound and lighting systems on-board. Being in the crowd is free, but there are collections,
as it's all done for fun and charity.
For film buffs, I'm standing with the camera exactly where the shoot-out in Hot Fuzz was filmed from (mostly),
but facing in the opposite direction. See if you recognise the buildings, in the clip that's on the IMDB Hot Fuzz page. At that time of night there wasn't a swan about, anywhere...
Coming soon, to a screen near you:
TTT #5: Audio tips and tricks
TTT #6: Fixing problems with Anti-shake
TTT #7: Using DFace to blur objects
We're working on these and other tutorials at the moment - check back soon to see if they've been released.
Click!
And it's up on YouTube...
System Requirements:
- Windows XP SP2 or 3, or Windows Vista,
- 1GB of memory or more,
- 14MB disk space for program files, plus video storage (15GB min. free space recommended),
- Direct-X compatible sound card and driver,
- Broadband Internet access, for uploads (WiFi hotspots, Cable or ADSL are suitable),
- .NET 2 or
.NET 3 framework or later (free from Microsoft, usually already installed).
Notes:
— Home versions of Windows Vista require Service Pack 1 or later;
— We do not recommend storing and editing video clips on a hard disk with more than 50% used space.