Story Archive
Filming the Little Ones
By Internet Video Magazine If you talk to camcorder users, most, at one time or another, have recorded their kids and families. I'd wager that most camcorder use is recording the cute activities of little loved ones.
Nine Tips for Hard Drives
From Kevin Nalty's WillVideoForFood.com
I just counted. Nine hard drives. If you create videos, you probably have at least one or two backup drives. So keeping with Number 9, here are 9 tips about hard drives that I’ve learned the hard way.
Fair Use
Brain surgery and women. As far as we’re concerned, these are the only two issues more complicated than copyright and Fair Use laws. But as these complex legal matters play integral roles in today’s web video revolution, we will attempt to clarify them to the best of our abilities.Framing & Camera Movements
Good framing combines artistic flair with established rules to create shots that represent subjects as effectively as possible. Whether it’s a person or a landscape, there’s an appropriate shot type for every subject you can think of.Camera Technique
Good camera technique is built upon a combination of skills. Practice and experience are important, but there are many tricks that are easy to learn and can make a huge difference to your camerawork quite quickly. Learn some of the simple skills that will help you produce consistent high-quality shots.
Camera Ready for Summer
Winter is over, spring is here and summer is on the way. This means making family movies and documenting your vacations, trips to resorts and theme parks, visits to relatives and foreign lands. But are you really ready? More importantly, is your video-making gear truly ready?
Buying a Tripod
Does your video make your viewers sea-sick? As basic as it may be to pros, novice videographers tend to take the easy route and free hand everything. No matter how steady your hand, or how super duper your image stabilization feature, a good quality tripod is the anchor of a smooth video shoot.
Converting VHS to Digital
By Nalts
I’ve got two or three plastic bins in my basement, packed with hundreds of VHS tapes. Among a lot of junk (Simpsons episodes, SNL reruns) lies some of the first video shorts I’ve made…um…two decades ago. So I spent hours this morning researching ways to convert them, and it comes down to a few complex choices with big tradeoffs:
Music to Your Ears
You shot your film, you cut it and you’re all ready to get that sucker up on the Producer Rewards leader board. But wait, what’s that? You've got nothing but your squeaky voice and grandad’s banjo in your audio track? That’s not a movie, my friend, that’s a cry for help.
Optimizing for HD
By Only a few years ago, we were struggling with configuring desktop systems to support editing DV video, with its then huge demands for real-time video capture, streaming to hard disk, and video-rate decompression and processing. Today, even mainstream consumer systems don't break a sweat for editing standard-definition video. But we've also moved on -- and now we're back demanding more with the step up to high-def video.
