Videos are hot commodity right now, but not everyone knows how to make them, let alone edit them. This is where you could offer a video creation or editing service.
Video Creation Service
Using free tools found online, you can quickly learn how to combine text, pictures, and audio, and turn those elements into a video for online customers. I've been using free tools since college and I can say that its very helpful.
Here's a short list of free online tools that you can use to get started:
- Audacity for audio files
- Camstudio for creating videos
*Openoffice.org for presentation software similar to Powerpoint
*Jing for creating screen captures - http://www.dmoz.org/Arts/Music/Sounds_Files/Samples_andLoops/for royalty-free musical loop directories for adding music tp the videos that you create.
Video Editing Services
Whether you're beginner or seasoned professional, you can easily sell your services to edit video. If you're a total newbie at this, you will find hundreds of tutorials online, both written and as videos showing you how to edit a video. It will not take very long to understand how everything works. It will take you an even shorter amount of time as you get better at this task.
To edit a videos for clients, these are the components that will ask your customer to provide to you:
Script. The words that will go on each slide within the video presentation. The goal is 10 words or less for each slide; the simpler the better is what creates an effective message.
A musical loop in a MP3 format. You can purchase musical loops (a short instrumental or musical song) by categoryand have them shipped to you on CD, or you can download the loops to your computer.
Sometimes the customer will provide a voiceover, which is an audio file that you will need to add to the video.
The audio formats vary depending upon how they were recorded and saved.
Make sure you understand which file you will be able to work with according to the free software that you downloaded from the internet.
In summary, using free tools that you can learn how create and edit videos for customers.
This is very important that you should know how to monetize-
You can sell these services to individual business owners by approaching them through e-mail or their website contact form. You can also advertise your work for hire services to webmasters as an add-on bonus perk for their customers, You can even start a video creation or editing gig on Fiverr.com or register yourself as a video creator and editor on Upwork.com or onlinejobs.ph, The video creation and editing market is wide open right now, and serious cash is ready to be made just do it seriously and you will be fine. Always remember that "if you want something work for it."