[share_ebook] Get Creative! - The Digital Video Idea Book

For Anyone with a Digital Video Camera and a Desire to Create

Create professional looking home videos, sales videos for your small business, beautiful wedding videos--even your own documentary or feature film--with help from this approachable, easy-to-understand guide. You'll learn all the essentials, from choosing the right camera and computer equipment to working with lighting and sound. Then, follow project chapters that take you through planning, writing, and producing your video, along with the camera, software, and editing techniques necessary for completion. Get inspiration from the CD-ROM and a companion Web site demonstrating examples from several of the projects featured in the book.

• Apply professional video and film techniques to everyday projects
• Conduct interviews, set up stages, direct actors, and manage a set
• Enhance your project with computer-generated special effects, transitions, and titles
• Add a music soundtrack and special audio to your video presentation
• Learn to use editing software to build TV-quality productions
• Create your own DVDs and Video CDs for playback in home theater systems

CD-ROM features video clips that demonstrate the DOs and DON'Ts of video production

Pooling their expertise in computing and film production, the authors introduce new/wannabe owners of digital camcorders to choosing and using equipment for home movies and other video events. Includes a glossary of video editing terms. The CD-ROM features video clips demonstrating production dos and don'ts. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Why to Buy Best-selling author Todd Stauffer teams up with movie producer Nina Parikh to show you what can happen when you apply professional video and film techniques to everyday projects using a digital camcorder, computer-based editing software and a few great ideas.

Best-selling author Todd Stauffer teams with movie producer Nina Parikh to show you what can happen when you apply professional video and film techniques to everything from home movies to corporate projects projects using a digital camcorder, computer-based editing software and a few good ideas. Includes tips on special effects--plus, distributing, marketing, and presenting your work to broad audiences.