Video Trailers for my books. Videos will get updated as I get better at creating and amending them. Will add more when I get time and inspiration.
Selected Videos
ExCommunication
Patrick Smith
Semblance Series Video Trailers
Semblance of Storms, Re-Semblance and Dissemblance in one video promotion.
Sailing Clear Series
Sailing Clear, Sail Chains, Sails and Sail-or (K)not
To The Survivors Video Trailers
Video Production For Video Trailers
I’m using a variety of tools to create the video trailers such as Affinity for stills, text and original cover design. I then have two primary video editing tools. iMovie from Apple and Kdenlive the open-source editor. This is definitely not my skill set. I am sourcing graphics and audio where used from Royalty free sources.
I have also used some AI generation as I have previously commented. The trailer background video is from either ChatGPT (free account therefore limited attempts) or from PixNova paid for credits
kdenlive
kdnlive is an open source video editor. See a review here. Going to take me quite a while to get to grips with it especially transitions between video channels. Would like some faster shortcuts for simple fade in and outs
Affinity
iMovie
The built in mac tool is good on video, very easy. It falls down on text transitions and positioning. I have used it before for home movies, collecting holiday video clips.
