Submitted by: Alex Lemone

YouTube has changed the way we view home videos. We used to take home movies and forget about them. They would sit, dusty, in a box somewhere, only to be dragged out at family gatherings to humiliate now-grown children. YouTube and other online media have put personal video in the foreground again and have made it possible for regular people to put together video to record history, create fantasy, or make something of themselves. Here are some tools to use to make use of this technology.

1. Camtasia

This is a great product to use if you are interested in making a photo montage video from existing video footage. These are often set to music. You can use Camtasia to capture screen images from either video or Power Point presentations, organize them into a cohesive montage, and create a new video. This isn’t a good program to use if you want to edit your existing video for length and content and turn out a fairly similar product from the original. This creates a new kind of product. It would be good for those who did not get very good photographs of their wedding but got a good video and want to make screen captures of their video. You can have video snippets in your final product, but they are mainly offered as picture-in-picture. You can also capture sound bytes the same way you capture screen images. It is available from TechSmith Online Store for $299 USD. There is a free trial offer, as well.

2. Jing

This is another product that allows for screen captures. It can be used to capture images from video or images of the computer screen you are working on. You can capture images of your wedding blog and edit them together with home videos of the young couple together, parts of the wedding video, and photographs or screen caps of the wedding video, for a truly unique video that can then be posted on You Tube, Facebook, or other places online. Jing is available from TechSmith Online Store as a free download.

3. Adobe After Effects

This is a professional-quality product that can be used to create special effects from existing video and photographs. This can result in an animated feature, green-screen technology where the subject is separated from the background and superimposed on another background. You can arrange photographs into an animated short to share online with your friends and other wedding guests. This is a great product for those with truly creative ideas and desires for their wedding video. It has something for novices and professionals alike. It is offered at adobe.com for $999 USD.

4. Voice to Cartoon Tools

Cartoon-effects and voice-over software allows you to create animated short videos from photographs or drawings and add voice-overs to create vocal effects for your animation. Cartoon Effect Creator 1.0, IntoCartoon Pro 3.1, AV Voice Changer Software 4.0.54, and Photo to Cartoon Online 1.0 are examples of software of this type.

Creating a fun online video of your wedding is a unique way to share your experience with wedding guests, those who could not attend the wedding, and the world at large. Capture the personality of your wedding and your love for each other in a strange and wonderful way and who knows? Your wedding may go viral.

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