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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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The dirty dozen of video editing tools

by Will Head on 29 June 2010 in Video
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Here are 12 of the best free tools to get you out of sticky situations in which most video editors will find themselves from time to time. Video work means you’ll inevitably spend a lot of time inside your editing application, but there are times when you’ll need to work with files from third parties [...]

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Getting the best chroma key from green screen

by Will Head on 18 June 2010 in Video

Okay, you’ve shot your green-screen footage, but there’s still a lot of work to do in terms of de-interlacing and chroma keying for the best results. In the last column, we looked at shooting footage against a plain green screen, which can then be replaced on your Mac with a completely different background. This sort [...]

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Create a green screen for adding special effects to your videos

by Will Head on 28 May 2010 in Video

Once the preserve of blockbuster movies, green screens are becoming an increasingly popular tool. Here’s how to set up your own. Green screen effects may have once been the preserve of big-budget Hollywood movies, but chroma key, as it’s also known, is increasingly cropping up in places you wouldn’t expect to see it. Take a [...]

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Keep sight of where your film is to be viewed

by Will Head on 18 May 2010 in Video

By correctly framing your shot while shooting, you can ensure all the action and titles can be seen, no matter on what medium your film is viewed. Before you start shooting, it’s worth considering on what medium the final edit will be viewed, as that can affect many aspects of the video-making process. Traditionally, most [...]

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