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Cataloguing Your Digital Footage
As your interest in home video develops, you will undoubtedly begin to amass a significant amount of footage. Like anything, it can be difficult to store all of your...
Common Mistakes With Home Videos
Technology has advanced so much over recent times and never more so than in the world of camcorders and videography in general and just like our plain old audio...
Converting Videos to DVD
Once you have the files on your PC you then have the option of converting them to DVD. Even though you can view the files in MPEG-2 or AVI format (AVI files are often...
Filming On The Beach
There are several techniques you can use to make your family videos on the beach truly capture the essence of your holiday and there are also a couple of things you...
How to Conserve Camcorder Battery Power
Unless you’re carrying a spare battery with you, the single battery within your camcorder could run out at any time which would ruin a planned...
How to Film an Interview
Interviews can be a very dramatic and powerful medium but if you don’t give them due care and attention, they can look awful so it’s important to know a few useful...
Making a Video Blog
‘Blogging’ in general is a term that has been around for a good few years now now and it has basically been a platform for individuals and companies to state their...
Putting Your Video on the Web
Such is our enthusiasm these days with making connections with other people via the internet that this has led to an explosion in the number of people who are using...
Storing Videos to DVD and Your Computer
It’s likely that at some point you’ll want to get your home video files from your camcorder and onto a DVD from which you can make copies and give to...
Techniques and Effects For Creating A Scary Movie
Thrillers and horror movies and DVDs are often an acquired taste and some people cannot bear to watch them at all. Nevertheless, the genre has...
Using Your Camcorder: The Basics
Just like with the earliest cameras ever invented the purpose of a camcorder is to capture visual memories only, in the case of a camcorder, they are ‘moving’ images as...
What You Need To Know About Filming in Public Places
If you are shooting a home video in public places, the rules around what you can and can’t do and what you may be required to do by law will be...
