Collins Need to Know? – Digital Video - Softcover

Barrett, Colin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007229615 ISBN 13: 9780007229611

Publisher: Collins, 2006

Synopsis

This one-stop practical guide will show you how to make great digital videos, and what to do with them. To make your progress easier, it comes in a handy format with colour photos and expert advice throughout.

Whether you’re buying your first camcorder or updating to the latest digital technology, this is the one-stop guide to making entertaining and impressive home videos.

Covers everything from understanding the features on the camcorder to composition, editing and post-production techniques; with insights and tips from an industry insider.

Contents include: understanding digital video; choosing equipment; exploring your camcorder’s features; the basics of good film-making; tips for shooting many occasions; editing your footage, creating title sequences, adding music and sound effects; screening your movies, on DVD or online.

About this title

Synopsis:

This practical, accessible guide is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand digital video and make great home movies. Packed with photographs and diagrams, it provides all the information you need to take you from nervous novice to aspiring Spielberg. Whether you're buying your first camcorder or updating to the latest digital technology, "Collins Need to Know? Digital Video" is the one-stop guide to making entertaining and impressive home videos. It covers everything from understanding the features on the camcorder to composition, editing and post-production techniques; with insights and tips from an industry insider.

The contents include: Understanding digital; Choosing the equipment you need; Exploring your camcorder's features and functions; The basics of good film-making; Tips for shooting many occasions from weddings to holidays to sporting events; Editing your footage and creating title sequences; Adding music and sound effects - including how to digitize music from discs and audio cassettes; Screening your movies - making copies, downloading and streaming on the Internet, podcasting; and DVD camcorders and the high definition future Plus, jargon-busting glossary, directory of Websites and information to take you further.

About the Author:

As a filmmaker and journalist working on many digital video and computer magazines, Colin Barrett is regularly approached to trial the latest digital video equipment. He also runs the definitive digital video website: www.simplydv.org and is author of ‘Digital Video for Beginners’.

About this edition

• Publisher: Collins
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0007229615
• ISBN 13: 9780007229611
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192