I had to videotape a child's holiday festival last week and was sitting alongside a parent who was shooting stills for the same event. He asked me if I ever had to do any multi-cam video shoots and suggested a quick and easy tip for syncing both cameras. Ithoughtthis...
You could just plop effects dead center in the mix, but what fun is that? Your video and audio editing software packages have tools to spread the sound around, placing it in convincing locations across the soundstage. Some tools are simple, while others require some practice and patience, but...
Noise: the bane of all editors. It's everywhere and comes from many different sources. We can boil them all down to two main types: constant noise and random noise. Constant noise comes from things like air conditioners, motors and transformers. Mics, mixers and cameras can add noise too. Random...
Whether you want to build themes and variations for large-scale productions or as signature music for your promotional videos, make catchy music beds for 30-second spots or produce ambient music with subtle mood-fitting changes for wedding videos, the following looping music production tutorial gives you the basic tools...
As for actors, many of them come from humble beginnings and are good for making more with less. If you should be lucky enough to have both good writers and good actors, you're going to get great dialog and action. Assuming you can capture the performances in the manner...
Modern editing software offers all the editing power of an old-school tape-based editing suite, but it also provides effects, titles, still store and a full toolbox of audio goodies.
From a practical standpoint, you can carry an entire production suite in your laptop computer and take it with...
Interactive Tutorial Content
Click here to view the tutorial video for Using Loops to Create Original Music.Whether you want to build themes and variations for large-scale productions or as signature music for your promotional videos, make catchy music beds for 30-second spots or produce ambient music with subtle mood-fitting changes...
Four of the most dangerous words in the video production lexicon are "fix it in post." Easy for a director or cinematographer to say, but who is going to feel the pain? The editor and, most probably, the audience. Matty Libatique, the cinematographer of Requiem for a Dream,...
Polishing Up The Rough Cut
Your goal with your rough cut is to lay down your shots in the order in which you wish to tell your story. Chances are, if you're producing a narrative, you decided the order of your scenes in pre-production, and you now just need...
