Digital Video For Dummies 4th Edition by Keith Underdahl (PDF)

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So you have a camcorder and visions of being the next Spielberg. But how do you progress from shooting so-so footage to showing your own finished movie? Digital Video For Dummies, 4th Edition gives you the know-how and the show-how! Find out how to shoot and edit great movies, using iMovie, Windows Movie Maker, or Adobe Premiere Elements to add the finishing touches like special effects and your own soundtrack. With the latest information and lots of illustrations and screen shots, this friendly guide walks you through: Getting your computer ready to work with digital video (complete with information about FireWire)Choosing a camcorder, including features to look for and features that are uselessDigitizing old VHS videotapes to preserve memoriesPurchasing other movie making gear, including audio and lighting equipmentShooting better video, with tips on lighting, panning, using the zoom, and recording better audioCreating your own sound effects such as footsteps, bones breaking, fire, thunder, insects buzzing, and moreCapturing digital video using iMovie, Windows Movie Marker, or Premiere ElementsEditing, including understanding timecode, organizing and previewing clips, and assembling clips in Storyboard and TimelineAdding transitions, titles, and special effectsImporting and integrating video from phones and digital camerasUsing audio rubberbands in iMovie, Premiere Elements, and other editing programsAdding narration, importing and working with CD audio, and adding a music soundtrackKeith Underdahl has extensive professional video production experience developing kiosk and marketing videos for Ages Software. Realizing that you’ll want to polish and premiere your movie, he includes information on:More advanced video editing, including animating video clips, improving light and color, compositing video (bluescreen or greenscreen), and more13 categories of video effects, ranging from blur and sharpen to transformWorking with still photos and graphicsSharing your video online using QuickTime (/QT), RealMedia (.RM), or Windows Media Video (.WMV)Making tapes or burning DVDs in 9 stepsWith a handy cheat sheet of keyboard shortcuts, a chart comparing 10 video editing programs, a glossary, and more, with this guide you’ll soon be saying “Lights, camera, action” and producing your own movie attraction.

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Editorial Reviews: Review “…gets to the stuff you really want to know…required reading.” (Nothern Echo, August 2006) From the Back Cover Shoot and edit great movies—no experience required!Use iMovie, Windows Movie Maker, or Adobe Premiere Elements to add special effects and your own soundtrackWhen your parents took home movies, no one ever confused those films with professional productions. But with today’s digital camcorders and editing software, who knows what you can create? This book helps you choose a good camcorder, shoot better video, publish your movies online, and speak the industry technobabble like a Hollywood pro.Discover how toChoose the right video cameraInclude still shots in your moviesAdd your own narration or musicDigitize old VHS videotapesShare your video on DVD or online About the Author Keith Underdahl is a video developer who has created numerous kiosk and marketing videos for Ages Software. He’s also shared his videography expertise in Adobe Premiere Elements For Dummies. Read more

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐I have my first digital video camera and, for the first time, the option to edit my long and boring captures. While I am very experienced at editing digital photos, this is an entirely new field for me. It seems to me that this “for dummies” version is still too advanced for me. I need one “for complete morons”, apparently. This is a reflection on me, not on the book, which seems to be very thorough.It goes into more detail than I need. I don’t capture video with my phone; I don’t have capture problems; the odds of my ever needing nightvision videos are nil; I’m not sure I need to know what the NTSC standards are, and on and on.All I really wanted was a step-by-step way to:*use the software that came with my camera to cut out unnecessary areas and restitch the remainter;*suggestions on how to make a video capture flow, more or less seamlessly, despite the editing;*ditto with the soundtrack;*an overview of easy video editing programs that I can upgrade to if I should ever outgrow my camera’s software (which doesn’t look likely right now.)*workflow suggestions as to how to backup and preserve video (I don’t have that much faith that DVD’s are still going to be in use a decade from now), so I wanted a general overview of options and suggestions.I got the first four. It was a bit more technical than I wanted, but that may be because I didn’t realize the full software/hardware implications, let alone the standards, frame rates, aspect ratios, interlacing, capture cards, or video converters issues–and I’ve still purposefully avoided the “advanced video editing” chapter. It seems to me that people, not too much brighter than I and with similarly-equipped home computers, have managed to edit their videos w/o knowing all this. Actually, ignorance is bliss sometimes and I’m not sure I want to know. (But if YOU want to know it, it’s all here).The issue of archiving and preserving video is not addressed. The author does suggest external hard drives as a way to save space on the internal ones. Maybe we have to endlessly keep updating our captures (super 8 to vhs; vhs to dvd; dvd to ??). I was hoping that some specific strategy to make the process easier and foolproof. It probably isn’t fair for me to expect to have this issue addressed in a “for dummies” book, but preserving these memories going forward is the primary reason I shoot movies, and I’d like to think that there is someway that I can ensure that today’s babies will be able to see their movies 30 or 40 years from now.

⭐This book scores on so many levels I can’t recommend it enough for beginners. As somebody who bought their first camcorder and will be making shorts which will involve editing software, I needed a 101 overview.And boy, did this ever fit the bill. Written in a breezy, easy-to-understand style, the book first deals with what you should look for in equipment. It then moves into basic filming techniques but most importantly, the beginner mistakes that are all too common (bad lighting, zooming in during a shot, etc.). Even though I have a basic knowledge of film making, I found these tips extremely helpful.But what really makes this book worth every cent is that it is basically a user’s guide for iMovie, Windows Movie Maker and Adobe Premiere. If you’re new to editing, you’re probably going to start with the super-basic Movie Maker or iMovie, and somewhere down the line move up to the more advanced Adobe.For every editing step it shows how this is done in each respective program–a virtual user’s guide, complete with tips and enhancements.It also covers advanced editing tricks, adding audio, lighting tricks, you name it.If you want a primer for beginners, this couldn’t be more perfect. It was so interesting and easily readable I read the entire book in one day.

⭐I’ve just started flagging chapters about getting started – creating a motorcycle service guide dvd on a Mac with a 2013 version of iMovie.This book is well written, meaning that the author doesn’t waste my limited daily ration of mental-ram, by trying to “weave humor”, or “himself”, into a subject I know nothing about. It’s more on the technical editing side of film-making.I’ve just started reading the book. I’ll have more of an in-depth opinion later.*************************It’s later and this book is essential, written with Mac & iMovie featured before Windows. Easy to cross through whole pages of PC and Adobe Essentials info with a ball-point pen.I toggle between this book and “How to Make Videos that Don’t Suck”, Steve Stockman which is mostly stage mechanics. So you have it all with these two books, plus Stockman has a website with u-tubes to back up his chapters with post-reader workshop visuals. Get them both.

⭐The copyright is 2006 and reflects digital video of over 14 years ago, and in this fast moving field it might as well have been written for Buster Keaton.

⭐This was written 14 years ago and the information is very much out of date.

⭐Yes, the book is a little outdated, but if you are a true Dummie like me, it’s a great primer. Generally speaking, whenever I am exploring something new, I have found the “Dummie” series to be a good starting point.

⭐Brought like new got what look like new. Great sell didn’t give it 5 stars because haven’t got to involved yet

⭐Very little data in it, especially for the cost. Nothing that wasn’t easily available on the internet for free.

⭐This is a good general guide to creating your own digital video masterpieces without being specific to any one software package. ‘For Dummies’ is always a complete misnomer, as the books are anything but dumbed down, in some cases being complex and demanding a fair level of competence. This, however, is a fairly easy read.

⭐I didn’t get on with this because I found it too involved. Not for Dummies I think unless I’m more of a dummy that I had thought.It didn’t seem to cover the simpler ijnfo required for a modest camcorder.

⭐The technology is a bit outdated in this version, the software used for video editing isn’t great..

⭐first class

⭐Very informative on windows media video but have slight niggles not covered.At least it has got me started and I shall learn more from this informative type of reference book.

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