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Digital cameras for still pictures have become pretty commonplace, but digital video remains less widely adopted. This must be purely because of equipment cost, because everyone with a recent-model personal computer has access to excellent editing software, and has all the required data ports. PC Magazine Guide to Digital Video shows how to capture, edit, and publish digital movies with the tools available for the Microsoft Windows operating system. This is a fairly comprehensive guide meant for someone who's never had training in videography, doesn't really know about the multimedia file formats Windows uses, and doesn't want to invest a lot of money in professional-grade software for editing and publishing. It's all you need to take some digital home movies, edit them so they're not too boring, and burn them to DVD for distribution to the remote parts of the family.
Jan Olzer explains how to shoot video properly in the first place, offering advice on lighting, composition, and action. Then, focusing on Windows Movie Maker and (to a lesser degree) Pinnacle Studio, he walks the reader through techniques for chopping up the raw footage, disposing of the dull parts, and reassembling the rest into a coherent storyline. Titling and other production techniques get attention, too. His style is highly example driven, and easy to follow. --David Wall
Topics covered: How to capture, edit, and publish (to DVD) home videos and amateur movies. There's coverage of composition, lighting, and sound for when you're filming, and explanations of how to use popular editing suites when you're back home assembling a final product.
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A PC Magazine contributing editor who has been testing digital video products for a decade offers advice on choosing and using digital camcorders, recorders, video editors, and DVD-authoring programs. Ozer also addresses upgrading computers for such applications, and advanced DVD production. The companion CD-ROM contains sample video material from the book and trial versions of nine applications (e.g. DVD Workshop, MovieFactory)Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Description
What does it take to make great digital video? The right equipment, the right skills, and Jan Ozer's advice.
PC Magazine's digital video authority delivers the details that will help you make videos you can be proud of. Here's the lowdown on which camera to choose (and why), how to shoot the best footage, how to capture the best sound, how to get your video from the camera to your computer, what to do when you get it there, and how to produce a showstopper from start to finish.
Author Jan Ozer offers expert advice on: Deciding what you do and don't need in a digital camcorder Selecting a DV or analog capture solution Picking the perfect video editor Getting the right DVD-authoring package and recorder Shooting terrific footage and capturing sound that's just right Outputting your project in various formats And producing professional-quality DVDs
The book's CD-ROM includes audio and video files comparing consumer and prosumer camcorders and demonstrating techniques like noise removal; MyDV D, Pinnacle Studio, Ulead Video Studio, RealONE Player, muvee auto Producer trial versions, and more.
Book Info
Guide provides everything you need to know about digital video, such as which camera to choose and why, how to shoot the best footage, how to capture the best sound, how to get the video from the camera to a computer, and more. Softcover.
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What does it take to make great digital video? The right equipment, the right skills, and Jan Ozer's advice.
PC Magazine's digital video authority delivers the details that will help you make videos you can be proud of. Here's the lowdown on which camera to choose (and why), how to shoot the best footage, how to capture the best sound, how to get your video from the camera to your computer, what to do when you get it there, and how to produce a showstopper from start to finish.
Author Jan Ozer offers expert advice on: Deciding what you do and don't need in a digital camcorder Selecting a DV or analog capture solution Picking the perfect video editor Getting the right DVD-authoring package and recorder Shooting terrific footage and capturing sound that's just right Outputting your project in various formats And producing professional-quality DVDs
The book's CD-ROM includes audio and video files comparing consumer and prosumer camcorders and demonstrating techniques like noise removal; MyDV D, Pinnacle Studio, Ulead Video Studio, RealONE Player, muvee auto Producer trial versions, and more.
About the Author
Jan Ozer has worked with digital video since 1990, originally as VP of Marketing for Iterated Systems, a video compression developer, and thereafter as contributing editor to PC Magazine and E-Media. Since then, Jan has written three books on digital video and has instructed two- and three- day video compression seminars, most recently for the University of Wisconsin.
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