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Short articles on reading source footage, picking clips, tightening edits and exporting for different screens, written by the instructors who teach the buzzfyzo modules.
Short, practical notes on cutting event footage into highlights and recaps: choosing clips, trimming, captions and exporting. New pieces appear about once a day, written by the instructors who run the course.
Exporting One Edit for Horizontal, Square and Vertical Screens
A practical walk through reframing a finished highlight for three screen shapes, checking each version on a real phone, and naming files so they reach viewers without confusion.
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A Checklist for Captions and On-Screen Text Before You Commit
Before you add a single caption to a highlights edit, run through these questions on accuracy, readability, timing and small screens so the words support the footage instead of fighting it.
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Five Pacing Mistakes in Highlight Edits and How to Fix Them
Most weak highlight videos fail at trimming and sequencing, not at clip choice. Here are five pacing mistakes I see in learner edits, and the small changes that fix each one.
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What Feedback Rounds Cost and What Moves the Price
A plain look at what shapes the cost of the feedback rounds and final project: footage length, the number of revisions, depth of comments and the time you give each round.
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How Tessa Chose Ninety Seconds From a Three-Hour Conference
A short case from the course: Tessa had three hours of authorised conference footage and one minute and a half to fill. Here is how she chose which moments earned a place.
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Reading Source Footage Before the Autumn Event Season Begins
Before the busy weeks of conferences, concerts and club evenings arrive, here is how to check permissions, audio and coverage in your recordings so that editing starts on solid ground.
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Aspect Ratio Explained: 16:9, 1:1 and 9:16 in Plain Words
A plain-words explanation of aspect ratio, the trade term behind horizontal, square and vertical exports, and why one recap often needs three separate versions.
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Burned-In or Separate Captions: Which Suits Your Event Recap?
Priya Nair compares open captions built into the picture with caption files viewers can switch on, and recommends which to use for highlight videos watched on phones.
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How a Rough Assembly Becomes a Tight Highlight, Cut by Cut
A look at how trimming, sequencing and pacing are actually done on a recap edit, and how we keep each speaker's comment in its original context.
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How Two Feedback Rounds Shape Your Final Highlights Project
The question we hear most is what actually happens in the two feedback rounds. Here is how the labelled sample project is submitted, reviewed, revised and finished, step by step.
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How Audience and Purpose Decide Which Moments Make the Cut
A look at how the course teaches clip selection: starting from who will watch and why, so the strongest moments of an event recording are chosen on purpose, not by habit.
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The Checks We Run on Footage Before Any Edit Begins
A look at the practical tools and routines we use to review authorised recordings for permissions, sound quality and coverage, so the edit starts on solid ground.
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Before You Export: A Checklist for Formats and Delivery
A practical list to work through before you commit to horizontal, square or vertical exports, so the files you share fit their screens and the message survives the crop.
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Caption Mistakes That Hurt Event Recaps, and How to Avoid Them
Captions and on-screen text can lift a recap or quietly ruin it. Here are the slips I see most often in learners' edits, and simple habits that keep every line readable on a small screen.
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What Concise Editing Costs and What Drives the Price of a Cut
A plain look at what shapes the cost of tightening event footage into a short highlight, from source length to speaker context, caption work and feedback rounds.
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How Two Feedback Rounds Reshaped One Learner's Conference Recap
Nadia brought a rough recap of a community conference to her final project. Two rounds of feedback changed its order, its length and the way it handled speakers' words.
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Choosing the Best Clips for Your Autumn Event Recaps
Autumn is full of conferences, concerts and community gatherings. Marcus Bell explains how to pick the right moments from authorised recordings before the busy months arrive.
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Clearance, Coverage and Clean Audio: Three Terms Behind Reading Source Footage
Before the first cut, three trade terms decide what you can use: clearance, coverage and clean audio. Here is what each one means in plain words and how to check it.
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Vertical or Horizontal First: Choosing Your Master Export
Daniel Ortiz compares cutting a recap in horizontal first versus vertical first, and explains which route keeps speakers' words intact and makes delivery easier for small event teams.
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How a Caption Gets Written, Checked and Fitted to a Phone Screen
A look at the working routine behind readable captions: transcribing, splitting lines, timing them to speech and checking the result on a small screen before export.
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Why Does My Highlight Still Feel Too Long After Trimming?
The question we hear most in editing feedback: you cut the footage down and it still drags. Here are straight answers on pacing, order and keeping speakers' words in context.
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What Two Feedback Rounds Add to Your Final Highlights Project
A look at how the final project works: one labelled sample project, two rounds of instructor feedback, and what you can expect to change between your first cut and the version you export.
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The Tools and Methods We Use to Pick the Best Clips
A look at the logging sheets, marker colours and short review passes we rely on when choosing which moments from an authorised recording earn a place in the final cut.
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A Practical Check of Your Footage Before the First Cut
A step-by-step pre-edit routine for event recordings: confirm permissions, listen for audio problems and map coverage, so you know what the edit can and cannot say.
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Export Mistakes That Spoil Good Highlight Videos
Most delivery problems are avoidable. Daniel Ortiz walks through the export and file-prep errors he sees most in learner edits, and the simple checks that prevent each one.
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What Captions Cost and What Moves the Price Up or Down
A plain look at what goes into the cost of captions and on-screen text for event highlights, from running time and audio quality to speaker names and the formats you need.
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