Will Head

Use time lapse footage to enhance your video

by Will Head on 18 May 2010 in Video

Time lapse footage is a great way to add extra interest to a film, and with today’s camcorders, it’s easier to shoot than you think. Time-lapse footage is a great way to enhance your film projects – especially if you want to show lots of activity taking place without making your overall video too long. [...]

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Set up your Mac to encode video for you

by Will Head on 18 May 2010 in Video

With an open-source video encoder, you can say goodbye to the time-consuming process of producing multiple versions of a final video edit. There’s never a single best format for video – it all depends on where the footage will end up and what it’s being used for. A piece that you output for DVD isn’t [...]

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Time to say goodbye to tape-based video

by Will Head on 18 May 2010 in Video

Making the jump to hard disk-based video isn’t as pricey or as difficult as you’d think: simply attach a dedicated hardware unit to your camcorder. Video has traditionally been tape-based, and even the jump to digital still employed tape to store the information. With an hour of DV footage occupying 13GB of space, it’s only [...]

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