Vacation Videos Rotting on Your Drive? Turn Them into LinkedIn Posts Instead
- Diane Mi
- 6 days ago
- 4 min read
How many gigabytes or terabytes of vacation videos from business trips, family holidays, or individual hikes do you have stashed away? Whether you store vacation videos on the cloud or your hard drive, one day you’ll have to either buy an external drive or upgrade your online storage plan.
The real bummer is that all those stunning vistas and adventures get buried on social media platforms by newer content soon after being shared. And though we’re gung-ho about making our friends and relatives sit through an hour-long lecture on European sights using our footage and photos, everybody's enthusiasm isn’t exactly catching on.
A video of cruise ships, Asian cooks, or tropical rainforests will only excite and blow away your audience if edited right. Luckily, you can rock vacation video editing without an MA or even a super-powerful desktop.
What to Do with Vacation Videos
Digital waste isn't considered an issue until it starts burning a hole in your pocket. Instead of storing each travel video clip and upgrading cloud storage plans, I'd suggest these four alternatives:
Compile and edit one travel video for each trip.
Unite different trips under umbrella topics, such as the type of vacation, your companions, or the region you visited. For example, you can unite all 2026 travels into one video or make an Iceland — Denmark — Norway video tour, even if visited in separate years.
Start a YouTube vlog. For this, you’ll need a personal travel video editor and a specific approach to film yourself or voice commentary to add an anchor-like presence.
Scan the video archive meticulously and identify social media-worthy clips to edit as reels to boost your following. Note that vacation videos have been found to enhance profile visibility and audience engagement on LinkedIn significantly.
All four approaches require you to edit a travel video or a bunch of them. It may sound daunting, but—with the right approach—it’s actually a blast.
Vacation Video Editing Shortcuts
Vacation videos are sometimes shaky, blurry, or overexposed. Two other major distresses are five-minute takes with the action happening only by the end, and someone’s toddler screaming at the top of their lungs while you're trying to shoot your friend on the plane.
I'm kidding here, of course, but lengthy videos and background noises aren’t that appealing.
The top 5 shortcuts to get a shareable LinkedIn video are:
Delete all duplicate videos using cloud tools or software, such as Cloud Duplicate Finder or Duplicate Video Search.
Identify which of the 4 options above resonates with you. Do you need 50 short videos of your last trip to Yosemite for LinkedIn or two cinematic travel films for YouTube?
Decide what exactly bothers you about the footage. If you have broken up with your partner, for instance, but his or her voice is heard in your vacation videos, that’s worth noting. Another example would be a family vacation video that may need captions or subtitles to give your audience giggles.
Estimate the budget you can invest in the travel video. Remember that by editing your footage, you reduce the costs of storing it.
Hire a travel video editor or a company specializing in vacation video editing with a convincing portfolio.
The shortcut route isn’t free. However, it takes off your shoulders the burden of creating the video from scratch and frees up your time instead. Trust me, self-editing becomes harder when footage volume is high, so professional support is better for polished outputs.
Besides, ad hoc editing for travel videos won't boost your LinkedIn. You need regular updates to promote your profile.
Expert vacation video editing ditches all headaches and produces an effective final cut that captures the essence of the adventure. A pro editor will also structure your clip around a narrative and trim it aggressively, having helped you decide in advance what the final story should be.
How to Choose a Travel Video Editor or Company
An editor must have a PC with a high-performing CPU to edit a travel video consisting of dozens or hundreds of clips. If you want to edit your shots, I would advise avoiding legacy hardware.
And it’s exactly the reason why hiring a freelance editor may turn out to be a negative experience. If the editor’s desktop freezes, they may lose your files or refuse to complete the project until you pay extra.
Relying on a team with expertise in post-production is a safer bet. Professional video teams can follow a detailed brief and edit a travel video following your Instagram, LinkedIn, or YouTube reference examples. Besides, a company like that has the latest hardware and divides post-production tasks more efficiently.
👍 Organized teamwork, clear briefs, and a professional workflow with fast turnaround, top quality, and the ability to match a requested style is what you get once you contract a vendor.
A team reduces friction. Dividing responsibilities such as ingesting footage, organizing projects, rough cutting, and final polishing makes the process more scalable than one person doing everything. This is exactly how VILKA works.
VILKA’s designers create custom 2D animation to use as the opening scene or in between the chapters of your visual story. And since VILKA Agency charges for work hours and provides clients with second-by-second editing reports, rest assured that your endeavor of hiring a travel video editor pays off.
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