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Audio

Producing Great Sound for Digital Video

Producing Great Sound for Digital Video Jay Rose (1999, Miller Freeman Books, San Francisco, CA 94105, 349pp., $40) With PBS and Turner Network Television production experience...

Directing

20 Tips for Directing Talent

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You might be inclined to reserve the term "talent" for someone who is a gifted actor, or at least someone who has some type...

Editing

Edit Suite: Titles the Old-Fashioned Way

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Regardless of how you create them, titles set the stage for your videos. They tell your viewers who, where, when and what they are...

Cameras

Getting Started: How to Avoid Common Camcorder Mistakes

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Wouldnt it be great if you never made a mistake with your camcorder? If you were the perfect videographer, then you wouldnt need to...

Lighting

Light Source: Color Correcting with Gels

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Have you ever looked at your video after you returned from what seemed to be a perfect shoot, only to find your footage is...

News

Video Warm-ups

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The old story has it: in a New York City subway station, a man stepped off a train and heard a violinist playing from...

Directing

Instructional Video: It’s All About Approach

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Approach With Caution Making an instructional video without some type of plan will likely lead you in a direction other than the one you intended....

Audio Recording

Audio terms you need to know for video production

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This is a list of all of the important audio terms you should know for recording audio for video and post-production work. ambient sound -...

Shooting

Tour of 1994 Multimedia Pavilion at Comdex

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Loren takes a tour of the multimedia pavilion at COMDEX 1994.

Editing

Shopping for Video Editing VCR

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Steve and Loren examine the features to consider when shopping for a VCR to edit video with.