It’s the that time again, time to check out five great videos made using Wochit!

SpaceX Barge Landing

A 40-second look at SpaceX’s first successful landing of a rocket doesn’t need much beyond the core footage. Simple text overlay explains what’s happening, and the imagery is amazing enough that music isn’t needed:

10 Habits of Super Happy Couples

Here’s a great example of how stock video footage can be transformed by text. And while this clip features an appropriately upbeat backing track, the video works fully on mute too:

Kerby Rosanes draws our favorite musicians

This quick clip of an artist sketching out cartoon-y versions of musicians shows that an interesting concept and the footage to match is all you need for a good video. They keep the text-overlay simple, letting the viewer know what’s happening but not going into extraneous detail.

Myanmar earthquake

A short, 90-second news clip uses voiceover to share a lot of fine details of the story. A couple major points are displayed via text, but instead of doing so using overlay, the video uses a still of the publisher’s Twitter page. It’s a smart way to try to drive viewers to social:

3 Big Stories

In just one minute, this video tackles three big stories from the past week with lightning speed. The combination of text-overlay and focused footage makes it a piece that can work completely independent of sound:

Have a favorite video produced on Wochit? We’d love for you to share it with us at blog@wochit.com

We’ll see you next week for another edition of the Weekly Wochit!