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| Family Historiesby Kyle Cassidy  Video is one of the most predominant story-telling mediums today. Your family has stories to tell that you need to capture, and your children may tell your story someday. There's no way around it - your parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles have lived through interesting parts of history that you've only read about in books, and we'll bet much of your family's history is completely unrecorded. Now is the time to tell their story, before it's too late. Capturing family recollections on video is not only fun but eye-opening and educational too; a way to preserve and share family member's unique remembrance of the world, and the impact that they've made upon it. There are several ways you can approach videos of family histories. One way is a literal history of your family and the other is history, told by your family. Both of these are interesting and a good family history will have some of both. It will...Continue Zoom H1 Handy Recorderby Tyler Faires  With its small build the H1 is a perfect out-of-the-box unit for daily recording and small projects. If you are looking to record live events, office meetings, or family occasions, buy this unit today and enjoy the portability and convenience of the Zoom H1. Most filmmakers say 60% of a film is the music and audio quality. Without realizing it, viewers notice inconsistency in sound more than anything else. Zoom has released three handy recorders in its H series. The Zoom H1 is the smallest of the series but still is a nice little recording device. Since so many people are now shooting with small HD cameras or HDSLRs, this is a great tool to have to increase the quality of your sound. For such a small unit it really can do some impressive recording and will definitely get the job done. Whether you are recording an interview or live music the H1 would be a great tool. When you purchase the H1 it is all ready to go, open the box put in the microSD card and start recording. Its as simple as that, plus while you are recording you have the option to cut the low frequencies, control the gain from auto to...Continue More New Product ReviewsLens Adaptors and Filters Buyer's Guideby Heath McKnight  Filters are an important accessory for every camera operator and digital filmmaker. Not only do they help correct the image, such as color balance, neutral density and contrast reduction, they can also be used creatively via special effect filters. Filters are marvelous tools that, in the very least, protect your camera's lens, and at best, can enhance the colorful nature shots your eye sees, but your camera struggles to capture. But there's more to lens covers than just filters, there's also attachments, matte boxes and controllers. This buyer's guide looks at the hardware for lens attachments; to find out more about lens filters software, read our associated story:Hollywood Effects Software Filters and Plug-ins Buyer's Guide. Filters are made from glass or plastic, and can be screwed onto the front of a lens (round filters) or dropped into an adapter (square filters). There are a wide variety of filters, along with reasons to use them. We'll take a look at several. For corrective use, there are filters such as neutral density (ND) or polarizers to help cut down bright light situations. Even if the camera has built-in neutral density filters, it's wise to have a couple of filters. Shooting outside can present color and brightness...Continue Video Editing Tip: Time Manipulationby Julie Babcock  The problem with movies, and perhaps, also, the greatest thing about them, is you just can't show everything that happens to your character. It would take too long, and be extremely boring. So how does one go about editing out the unnecessary content? By manipulating time to your liking. One way to portray a passage of time without taking a lot of time to show it is with the use of cross-dissolves. A commonly used application of this technique is the long walk on a deserted road. This is usually a wide shot of the character, way off in the distance, walking towards the camera. As an editor, you could allow this scene to play in its entirety, with the character taking the ten minutes to actually walk to the camera. However, since this would be agonizingly boring to watch, it's a perfect time...Continue More Videomaker Blogs | ||||||||
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