Perhaps you have years of videotapes from special events in your life, such as family vacations or friends weddings, with which you have been meaning to do something for a long time. Or, maybe you’re the owner of a restaurant or have a piece of land that you’d like to sell. In situations like these, all that is standing between you and having finished, professionally done video that will help you in your business or in your enjoyment of personal video that you already have, is finding and hiring a freelance video editor.
If you’re like most people
You’re put off at the thought of learning how to do video editing using software that is available for PC and Mac computers. The learning curve perhaps simply seems too steep when your life is already busy enough as it is. Not only that, many video editing software packages are relatively expensive to purchase, then there’s the question of whether or not you’ll need a computer hardware upgrade in order to accommodate the new software that you might purchase. Well, making use of the video editing skills of a professional editor is a perfect way to avoid all of these hurdles and expenses. Perhaps you think that a freelance video editor is way too expensive to justify finding and hiring. The fact is that not only is finding a competent editor easier than you probably think (i.e. simply search on the Internet!), the cost of their services probably is cheaper than you imagine as well. Why would this be?
The fact is that as a professional,
any editor that you hire will likely take the videotape or tapes that you have on hand and make a beautiful piece of produced video incredibly quickly, even in one or two days. The thing is that having familiarity with complex and powerful video editing software, as the professional that you hire will have, means that one can go from raw video to the finished product much quicker than you think. This lowers costs, especially if you hire him or her by the job rather than by the hour. Remember that as familiar as video editing professionals are with things like transitions, titles, basic special effects, etc. they can very quickly insert all of the features that you expect in your finished video project.
Once they’re done with the job,
You can expect either a video file delivered to you via FTP or other methods, and/or a finished burn DVD in the mail. In all likelihood the project will surpass all your expectations. The best part is that you will have your special personal moments, or a short video real estate, video for real estate spot for your business finished, and produced, rather than just remaining a plan for the future, to be finished someday.
Hire a Freelance Video Editor
It is easier than ever before to advertise your company if you are a small business owner. Even small, one-man operations will tend to have an online presence–usually a website–whereby the public can find out more about the product or service that they offer and hopefully become customers. With the Internet you have a way to reach people regardless of the size of your ad budget, but there is one medium that you may not have considered using in your efforts to get the word out about your company. I’m talking about making use of short business promotional videos on your website.
Video is one of the best ways to engage and teach people about almost any subject, and it lends itself very well to business promotion, as evidenced by the untold amounts of money spent over decades on commercial television advertising. Fortunately it is no longer prohibitively expensive.
Hiring a freelance video editor to facilitate the creation of compelling,
30 seconds to one minute promotional videos is a great way to insert easy-to-digest information about what you do in your website. You might be surprised at how little you’ll have to do to help your video freelancer accomplish this task. If you have a website, you already have virtually every element that your editor will need to construct your promotional video. He will make use of still photographs that you’ve chosen to represent your business and a voice over of the promotional copy that you have written. Presenting the photos in an elegant way, with transitions and titles along with the voice over and background music as appropriate will add up to a little promotional gem that will work to convert people who tend not to read the advertising copy on websites.
Best of all, you’d probably be amazed at how little
It costs you to have this video created for you. A freelance video editor can probably accomplish the task in a week or less for no more than a couple of hundred dollars. He should be prepared to deliver the finished product to you on a DVD, as well as a video file that you can tag properly and upload to YouTube for free hosting. Then, you or your webmaster can simply insert the YouTube embed code into an appropriate place on your site.
