Will Head

Get HTML5′s video features working for you

by Will Head on 3 November 2010 in Video
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Spend any time on video-related websites and it won’t be long before you see mention of HTML5 – specifically its native support of video playback – popping up. Before you get too excited, however, there are a couple of things you need to know about the forthcoming iteration of the web standard. As we looked [...]

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Premiere’s Ultra Key opens door to easy green screening

by Will Head on 20 October 2010 in Video
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Chroma keying just got a shot in the arm with the new Ultra Key tool built into Premiere Pro CS5, which creates great keys with minimal hassle. We’ve looked at chroma keying – the process of digitally replacing the background behind your subject with something much more interesting – in previous columns, but since then [...]

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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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