About a month ago I did a post…or more accurately a review…of Microsoft Silverlight (Microsoft’s foray into the world of web video). The review even drew a couple comments from the Silverlight team at Microsoft. At the time, my big question with Silverlight was…why would someone want to use it when Flash is the Internet [...]
One of the common tasks when creating video…especially for the web…is adding special effects like transitions, filters, generated media and things of that sort. And while Final Cut (both Express and Pro) offer a nice suite of built-in special-effects, I usually find myself wanting more. And that means…I usually end up key framing my own [...]
If you want professional looking video, you need to use professional lighting. And for decades, professional lighting meant light kits with halogen bulbs. Halgoen has it’s benefits…the color of the light is consistent, it’s produces great light and the light housing is generally small. But as anyone who has worked with halogen lights knows, they [...]
When most people are starting out, trying to get their first video online, they are happy to simply get something out there. Quality concerns are usually buried somewhere down towards the bottom of the list. But usually, after they’ve broken through that initial learning curve, they’ll want to know how to get their videos looking [...]
Back in 2006, Sony and Panasonic got together and created a new, consumer-level, high-definition video format called Advanced Video Codec High Definition (AVCHD). These days, when consumers are thinking about buying a high-definition video camera, AVCHD is likely the “type of camera” they’ll come across. But there are a few pitfalls regarding AVCHD cameras you [...]
