Video Editing Guides and Reviews

DSLRs are amazing tools for video, but I would not want to use one as my only camera at a wedding. If you had three or four of them, each with their own operator then that's a different situation.

Audio on DSLRs is not good for weddings because of AGC. You will get horrendous background noise. You will also lose audio continuity every time you need to stop / restart it (at least every 12 mins - and maybe more often). You will need an alternative audio recording device if you ever ...

The budding amateur's forever restricted by cost. You'll never get slick looks with cheap equipment and even budget gear's out of the reach of humble amateurs. So why not use a cheap alternative to low end specialist equipment? Professional looks the Blue Peter way is a specialty of Digital Director and exemplified by our very own forum member, The Guru. When Digital Director’s forums held their annual summer video competition, The Guru decided to enter using a palmcorder, and nothing else. No professional ...

We're often asked how to blue screen, so here's a collection of tips posted previously on the forums.
It's harder to correct mistakes than to avoid making them, so starting off on the right foot helps... your background (green or blue screen) should be evenly lit and coloured since what you're going to tell your computer to do is... "take all the pixels with this particular green value and replace it with something else." If the greenscreen has different values then your computer ...