5 Challenges To Creating Photo Fusion Videos
Combining photos and video clips into a single video can tell a powerful story, but producing a professional quality video can be a challenge. Getting caught up in any of these obstacles can make creating fusion videos frustrating and exhausting.
Creation Time
If you're trying to kill time for an entire week, try putting together a fusion video. If you're doing these for fun, this isn't really a problem, but if you're trying to make money, it's a tough sell to clients when you're pricing these based on a 40 hour creation time.
Visual Variety
To cut down on the time it takes to put together the compilation, it's easy to "standardize" motion effects like zooms, blurs, etc. After a few of these simple transitions are repeated, though, the video gets a little boring. It's tough to hold a viewer's attention for more than a minute with no variety in transitions and effects.
Making Changes
Putting the clips together to match the music is a common technique. However, a request to add or remove something from the middle of the video can throw off the entire video. Breaking a large video into smaller sections tends to reduce the impact of small changes, but modifications take time either way.
Matching Photo And Video Size
Making sure photos are sized correctly to fit in the area it should is a difficult task. It becomes even more of a headache when the photos are taken using 2 or 3 different types of cameras with different size images. Even standardizing the height and width of photos, there may still be resizing or cropping required for photos to make the video work.
Royalty Free Music
To be able to legally use your work with music included, it will have to be royalty free. There's no shortage of royalty free songs online, but you're going to pay for what you get. It's hard to continue to spend big money on songs when that means less profit for your business at the end of the day. At a minimum this means a subscription to a royalty free database of music or extra cost passed on to the customer.
Creation Time
If you're trying to kill time for an entire week, try putting together a fusion video. If you're doing these for fun, this isn't really a problem, but if you're trying to make money, it's a tough sell to clients when you're pricing these based on a 40 hour creation time.
Visual Variety
To cut down on the time it takes to put together the compilation, it's easy to "standardize" motion effects like zooms, blurs, etc. After a few of these simple transitions are repeated, though, the video gets a little boring. It's tough to hold a viewer's attention for more than a minute with no variety in transitions and effects.
Making Changes
Putting the clips together to match the music is a common technique. However, a request to add or remove something from the middle of the video can throw off the entire video. Breaking a large video into smaller sections tends to reduce the impact of small changes, but modifications take time either way.
Matching Photo And Video Size
Making sure photos are sized correctly to fit in the area it should is a difficult task. It becomes even more of a headache when the photos are taken using 2 or 3 different types of cameras with different size images. Even standardizing the height and width of photos, there may still be resizing or cropping required for photos to make the video work.
Royalty Free Music
To be able to legally use your work with music included, it will have to be royalty free. There's no shortage of royalty free songs online, but you're going to pay for what you get. It's hard to continue to spend big money on songs when that means less profit for your business at the end of the day. At a minimum this means a subscription to a royalty free database of music or extra cost passed on to the customer.
