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For Anyone with a Digital Video Camera and a Desire to Create
Create professional looking home videos, sales videos for your small business, beautiful wedding videos--even your own documentary or feature film--with help from this approachable, easy-to-understand guide. You'll learn all the essentials, from choosing the right camera and computer equipment to working with lighting and sound. Then, follow project chapters that take you through planning, writing, and producing your video, along with the camera, software, and editing techniques necessary for completion. Get inspiration from the CD-ROM and a companion Web site demonstrating examples from several of the projects featured in the book.
- Apply professional video and film techniques to everyday projects
- Conduct interviews, set up stages, direct actors, and manage a set
- Enhance your project with computer-generated special effects, transitions, and titles
- Add a music soundtrack and special audio to your video presentation
- Learn to use editing software to build TV-quality productions
- Create your own DVDs and Video CDs for playback in home theater systems
CD-ROM features video clips that demonstrate the DOs and DON'Ts of video production
Synopsis
Why to Buy Best-selling author Todd Stauffer teams up with movie producer Nina Parikh to show you what can happen when you apply professional video and film techniques to everyday projects using a digital camcorder, computer-based editing software and a few great ideas.
Synopsis
Best-selling author Todd Stauffer teams with movie producer Nina Parikh to show you what can happen when you apply professional video and film techniques to everything from home movies to corporate projects projects using a digital camcorder, computer-based editing software and a few good ideas. Includes tips on special effects--plus, distributing, marketing, and presenting your work to broad audiences.
Table of Contents
Contents of accompanying CD-ROM: Video clips that demonstrate dos and don'ts of video production.