Complete Idiot's Guide to Making Home Videos [Paperback]

Steven Beal (Author)

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The Complete Idiot's Guide To Making Home Videos is a book for everyone, from first-time video camera owners to amateur operators. This book is a fun, comprehensive guide to getting the most out of one's videorecording equipment.

Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Alpha; 1st edition (December 16, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0028636066
• ISBN-13: 978-0028636061
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,362,481 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Too Technical - Hardly Practical, March 3, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Complete Idiot's Guide to Making Home Videos (Paperback)

This thick book is filled with ALOT of technical terms and references to things that I will never do with my home movies. If you just want to learn some basic techniques for shooting better home videos, skip this book. The advice is not very practical. For instance, I wanted to know step-by-step how to take better shots, not "avoid panning too much." Still there is some useful information. But if all you want to do is make better home movies, check out John Fuller's Make Fantastic Home Videos. In a short amount of time, he tells you exactly how to shoot home movies just like the pros do it. It is just a much more practical book and not quite as "theory oriented" as this one.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars IDIOTS GUIDE TO MAKING HOME VIDEOS, March 10, 2001

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Robert Saminsky (NEW YORK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Complete Idiot's Guide to Making Home Videos (Paperback)

AS PROGRAM DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION FOR A LARGE METROPOLITAN NEW YORK COMPANY THIS BOOK IS ABSOLUTELY REQUIRED READING FOR EMPLOYEES DOING EDUCATIONAL TRAINING VIDEO RECORDING AND EDITING. IT IS EASY TO UNDERSTAND, COMPREHENSIVE AND THOPROUGH. I GIVE IT A FIVE STAR RATING.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What a great book, April 6, 2000

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Wendy DeVita (Punta Gorda, Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Complete Idiot's Guide to Making Home Videos (Paperback)

I definitely recommend this book! I recently returned from a vacation with some friends, and we wanted to take our HOURS of videos and make them into something worth watching. The book taught us how to edit the videos down to a manageable size...basically, we cut out the boring stuff! I had never used a computer editing program before. If I could figure this stuff out, believe me--you can! :)