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Well every now and then I will be writing some tutorials on editing videos and video clips on your computer...there are so many feds making music videos right now...but in my opinion there is only one fed doing that right! GEW defines greatness... in all that it does, sure its one if not the greatest federation in the BYW world...but their music videos (thanks to Matt Schalk) are second to none. So how do they do it? Well I'm going to explain...what does make a perfect music video!

There are numerous editing packages available today, most commonly used for music videos is movie maker (which is only available on windows me+) I will be concentrating my first tutorial on movie maker...

Movie Maker is extremely basic! There are no "special effects" yet so many people ask questions on how to use it? This tutorial may seem quite stupid to the more intelligent of us, but hell I don't want to see anymore below par  videos!

The key ingredients...
Pick a appropriate song, not a song just because you like it! The music should represent the video playing...you cant have "Slipknot" with wrestling, its just too fast paced, not enough vocal and basically just doesn't go well! "GEW's - Perfect day" is a prime example...the songs lyrics (whether you like the song or not) went well with the video. When choosing a song think about the lyrics...another example was my "Fight Song" video...the whole song represented backyard wrestling. A video without music is boring, a video with the wrong music sucks! Prime examples of wrong music...every Dave Maynard video...sorry Dave rap and shit don't go with wrestling!!! Sometimes you get the idiots that choose an appropriate song...but use it in the wrong way! Overdoce is my example here...he made a MAWA video to "my sacrifice" by Creed...but he didn't put the clips in time with the music! We had lyrics like "fly" and there was a powerbomb? It would be much more effective...if he had swapped the powerbomb with a frogsplash. Another major error when making videos is...timing....there's a chorus in every song...save all the best clips for the chorus! Don't play long draw out chains...or boring moves. The chorus has to be fast, furious and upbeat! If you manage to pick the write music...get the clips in the appropriate order and in time with the particular lyrics...then your onto a winner...unless of course your fed sucks.

Editing in Movie Maker...
This isn't rocket science, a simple interface, there's not a lot you can do! A lot of feds just "cut" their clips into the next. Now this is a good editing technique if you want to cram a lot of clips together, giving a fast and furious feel to the video! But its not good for slow songs or for slow parts in a song. To fade two clips together in movie maker, simply drag one clip over the other in the storyboard. Its that simple, the further you drag the more fade time. Onto the music! To add music to your video in movie maker simply drag and drop the file into the storyboard..it will appear beneath the clips on its own timeline. You can make the length of your piece of music shorter but dragging one end of it (make sure you play the music to make sure it doesn't cut off in the middle of a word at the end) A lot of people make this mistake. People also start the music halfway through, Hell Travis alleys entire WOBW series used both the sound and the music track! That my friend is a major NO NO! What? NO! To alter this click on the "set audio levels" button to the left of the storyboard, you can then slide the bar either to "video track" or "audio track" Obviously if its all the way to "audio track" you wont be able to hear the clips sound, If its all the way to "video track" You wont be able to hear the music! If its in the middle then you will hear both, you can adjust it to whatever levels you want, I suggest "audio track". A nice touch to music videos is adding a small intro or ending...you can make graphics using PSP/Adobe Photoshop and import them to movie maker as well! Animations are also easy with movie maker, there's no need for gif animators! Simply make a logo and import it to movie maker...then using that same logo add on some text or whatever you would like it to fade to then import that to movie maker, put both the images into the storyboard and overlap them...movie maker will fade from your first image to the second, just like a Gif animator but easier!

Saving your video...
Once your video is finished, watch it through first. Make sure there are no glitches etc. Something Travis and Overhaul didn't do! Correct these and once your happy save it, there are a few options to save, the best one is "high quality" a 3min video should come out at around 4mbs. The default file type is WMV, I don't recommend this, for some reason the quality sucks and not all webspace providers full support this file. To save as a .mpg or .avi, simply select "all files" as the "save as type" and then type in the name of your video with the appropriate extension. Once its saved watch it again in your media player and check for any errors, once your happy with it upload it and let the backyard fans tell you what its really like!

Word from the wise...
Some feds capture cards like to have a 3 seconds black screen after each video captured...I don't know why, but GEW and LWF are victims of this crime! LOL, Travis obviously didn't follow the above step and correct it! Well if this happens to you, just find the clip and make it a little shorter (by dragging the file) Play it back just to make sure! Classic example of this is in WOBW5 - just before some dude gets thrown of a roof there's like a 3 second pause...why? because the previous video was from GEW! On a different note...anything can be added to movie maker...gif, animations even flash! Just experiment with your ideas and you can create professional videos in no time.

Well that's all I got to say on movie maker.....anyone who has it have fun and post you videos!

-Rob