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