Video

YouTube, Vimeo, Blip: make the most of your video host

by Will Head on 6 October 2010 in Video
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If you’re producing video, you’d be nuts not to take advantage of hosting sites, but the one you choose depends on what you want to achieve… Make any kind of video these days and the chances are it will end up online somewhere. Gone are the days when Internet connections and computers ground to a [...]

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The iPhone 4/iMovie HD revolution

by Will Head on 22 September 2010 in Video
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Don’t waste your money on a mini HD camcorder. The iPhone 4 lets you shoot in HD, edit your film and then upload the finished movie to the web. You can’t have helped but notice the number of small, solid-state HD video cameras that have been popping up recently. While there were flash-based camcorders before, [...]

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Lightening the load on your Mac’s Intel Core processor

by Will Head on 8 September 2010 in Video
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Video editing needs more processing clout than ever, but don’t despair: there are some devices that can take the strain from your Mac’s CPU… As technology advances, tasks that would previously have your Mac wheezing and unusable become activities that can run in the background while you’re getting on with other things. Tasks, that is, [...]

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Making sure you’ve got every angle covered

by Will Head on 25 August 2010 in Video
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If you’ve used several cameras to film an event, syncing up the footage can be a little daunting. Thankfully, there are ways to make this job easier. If you have control over a shoot and plenty of time for lots of different takes then using a single camera to cover it is likely to be [...]

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Space: the final frontier for your movie files

by Will Head on 11 August 2010 in Video
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With movie files taking up so much space, video editing has hefty storage requirements, but choosing which type you need can be a minefield. No matter which video format you shoot and edit in, there’s no getting away from the fact that video eats up storage. One hour of standard-definition DV occupies 13GB of space, [...]

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Great video with a DSLR – who’d have thought it?

by Will Head on 28 July 2010 in Video
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Digital cameras have offered a movie mode in addition to still pictures pretty much since they were introduced. However, just because you could shoot video with a digital cameras, didn’t mean you should. The result tended to be low resolution, low frame rate shots that weren’t really usable for anything other than watching back on [...]

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