Tutorials/Video
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[edit] 1 Getting started with video
Some basic tips:
- Always record audio on all cameras
- Always log your shots
- Always enter the reel setting when you capture
- Make sure the shots are framed well.
[edit] 2 Tutorials
On this wiki:
- Tutorials/Video/Final Cut Pro Capture
- Tutorials/Video/Getting started with editing in Final Cut Pro
- (via Steeple): Tutorials/SteepleBooklet/IntroductiontoDigitalVideo
- To process your audio properly, you need to know about Dynamic Range Compression
- Related to Final Cut Studio: Tutorials/Basic Edit in Soundtrack
- Tutorials/Upload media to Cambridge University SMS service
[edit] 3 Tutorials elsewhere
http://www.bbctraining.com/onlineCourses.asp
- DV Shooting guides (covers VX2000/PD150 style cameras, which are now a little outdates, but the basic principles still hold, and the cameras are of broadly similar design to the Z1.)
- DV usage guide
- Good shooting guide
Elsewhere:
- VideoAktive resources, http://www.videoaktiv.org/index.php?id=40, and in particular the "Handbook on Digital Video and Audio in Education - Creating and using audio and video material for educational purposes. " http://www.videoaktiv.org/index.php?id=233 (nothing to do with me, but a great book!)
- http://www.mediacollege.com/video/
- http://www.teach-ict.com/videohome.htm
- http://www.Lynda.com (FCP tutorials, not free, but some of the videos are free to watch.)
From YouTube
[edit] 4 More on video
New tutorials and musings on video: Here's a first batch, mostly to do with encoding video and audio
- Pixel Aspect Ratio - practicalities about how to encode DV-PAL 4:3 and DV-PAL anamorphic correctly
- Interlacing - practicalities about about interlacing
- TV safe area 16x9 - what TV safe area should you use for 16:9 video?
- Dynamic Range Compression

