How to Edit Using a Digital Video Camera

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Hi, welcome back to Expert Village; how to make a professional looking video. There are a couple of things that we've talked about. And we left off I believe, the last thing we left off with was scripts and storyboards, and how it makes it easy when you have your things scripted and storyboarded for recording purposes. Now that we're ready to record, we have all this knowledge under our belt, here's one thing I wanted to point out to you. In camera editing and framing, it's very, very important. So for example, you see these lights behind me, so that we want to demonstrate framing. And so basically what we did, we moved the lights in position that best represents the shot. That's really the thing you have to take in consideration when you turn that camera on. You've heard it before, if there's a pole sticking out of somebody's head, move that person to the left or to the right. In this case, to give this depth of the shot, we moved it and recorded it. So the main thing that I want you to do before you start to turn that camera on, now that you have all this knowledge, is remember composition and framing. Take your time, don't turn the camera on and shoot to fast, unless somebody?s paying you to do that really quickly. But take your time, set up the shot. That's why TV and movies look so great, because they take their time and they really, really plan out their shots. Now that you have that information, turn the camera on and start recording. But before, remember one thing, look back at your storyboard, because in your storyboard, if you have an establishing shot showing, for example, you're going to show somebody walk into a building and then after they walk into the building, you're going to show them go to the front desk. Keep that in mind and shoot it that way. But you can actually shoot it in your camera. So, you have your establishing shot of the building outside of the building, you shoot the person going in; stop the camera. Then when you pick up the camera again and shoot that person is now walking into the building. And then when they walk into the building to the front desk, you can turn the camera off, set up your shot, show them entering into that front desk. And if you do that based on your storyboard in a linear fashion, it goes on tape that way, and guess what, when you bring it into the computer you have less editing to do. It's called "in camera editing". There's a lot of techniques that you can look up on-line, but keep in mind, if you plan your shots out, when you record them on tape it makes it easier when you edit. Basically the recording process when you get to it is everything is framed, everything is lit, your sound is checked out, you've done your sound test, everything is ready to go, your actors are all in place, and you record. Now that you've learned everything about how to frame, compose and record, well within your camera, let?s take a look on how to bring all that stuff into your computer.

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