Shooting, Capturing, Editing & Exporting, Posting

Shooting on a DV cam
• for static shots, use a tripod.
• hold shots for 5 seconds
• close, medium, wide
• no zooming allowed – zoom with your feet
• b-roll, b-roll, b-roll
• pan slowly

Capturing, Editing & Exporting in editing software

Windows Movie Maker tutorial
Adobe Premiere video editing
Apple iMovie tutorial
Final Cut Pro tutorial

• keep movies 4-5 minutes max
• jump cuts with occasional cross fade
• videos are large files, 10Mb/minute
• .flv .wmv .mov

Posting via YouTube.com
• register as member
• accepts almost any export file format, 100Mb max
• link to video
• or paste embed code into blog or web page
• enjoy movie

Posting via Web page
• export file from video editor as Flash (.flv)
• FTP file to server
• place embed code in Web page
• enjoy movie

Additional multimedia web sites
5 Steps to Multimedia
J-Learning