Tag Archive: learning how to video

Jan 22

YouTube video – How to optimise your videos

YouTube is the second busiest search engine in use today. It’s where a lot of people now go to find answers to their questions. If you’re putting your videos onto YouTube, you need to make it easy for as many people as possible to find them. Here are a few tips to help you help …

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Feb 20

Filming with Digital SLR cameras

One of the recent developments in the video production world has been the capacity of Digital Stills Cameras or Digital SLR’s like the Canon 7d to record stunning video as well do their day job of taking photographs. Without going in to technical explanations that I dont understand, high end professional Digital SLR cameras, (and I …

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Feb 24

10 Tips – Get the best from a referral video interviewee

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Don’t just tell the client to come along and get them to answer some questions and hope it will work on the day. You need to think very hard about what questions you are going to ask and how you word the question to ensure you get the answer you want.

Here are Sous Productions top 10 tips for getting the best out of your staff / client interviews on camera.

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Oct 23

What the hell is a track and dolly?

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The track and dolly is a very useful and easy to use piece of productions equipment that helps add an additional level of gloss to your final video. The gliding motion enables you to add interest and can provide important reveals and movement around foreground objects.

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Oct 12

Sneak Preview – “What the hell is a Jib”?

Andy of Maddogs and Duncan of Sous Productions chat

With the all important balancing of the Jib completed we were ready to go. Andy provided examples of the camera drifting over foreground and in to a reveal with me doing a piece to both the static and Jib cameras. It amazed be how the 18 ft reach of the Jimmy Jib could look so graceful in motion and when I saw the resulting shots it looked even smoother again.

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Sep 25

What the hell is a Track and Dolly?

Next week, weather allowing, I will be filming the answer to “What the hell is a track & Dolly” for you down at Maddogs.tv and they are kindly going to put the whole thing together to show you what it is, how it works and explain / show why you would use it in your video.

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Apr 02

Video Case Study – Editing Stage

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I used the in-built encoding standard for YouTube. I’m not sure I think the quality is right and it may need a bit of customising to get it right. What I am impressed with is the speed it did the encoding. It’s only a 5 min video but my i7 64 bit processor just flew through it.

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Sep 08

Corporate Training Video Production – Behind The Scenes.

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I thought it might be interest for some of my readers to get a behind the scenes view of a recent video production project I have recently completed for a well know High Street Bakery brand.

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Nov 18

Please take our Poll on FREE workshops

We want to run FREE workshops on how to create your own video for use in learning. If relevant, would you be interested to…

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