Get Creative! The Digital Video Idea Book [Paperback]

Todd Stauffer (Author), Nina Parikh (Author)

Book Description

Series: Get Creative | Publication Date: July 1, 2003

This work shows readers what can happen when they apply professional video and film techniques to everyday objects using a digital camcorder, computer-based editing software and a few great ideas.

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For Anyone with a Digital Video Camera and a Desire to Create

Create professional looking home videos, sales videos for your small business, beautiful wedding videos--even your own documentary or feature film--with help from this approachable, easy-to-understand guide. You'll learn all the essentials, from choosing the right camera and computer equipment to working with lighting and sound. Then, follow project chapters that take you through planning, writing, and producing your video, along with the camera, software, and editing techniques necessary for completion. Get inspiration from the CD-ROM and a companion Web site demonstrating examples from several of the projects featured in the book.

• Apply professional video and film techniques to everyday projects
• Conduct interviews, set up stages, direct actors, and manage a set
• Enhance your project with computer-generated special effects, transitions, and titles
• Add a music soundtrack and special audio to your video presentation
• Learn to use editing software to build TV-quality productions
• Create your own DVDs and Video CDs for playback in home theater systems

CD-ROM features video clips that demonstrate the DOs and DON'Ts of video production

About the Author

Todd Stauffer (Jackson, MS) is the best-selling author of all three editions of How to Do Everything with Your iMac, and the originator of McGraw-Hill/Osborne's How to Do Everything series. He is the author or co-author of more than 25 books on technology and computing including Blog On: The Essential Guide to Building Dynamic Weblogs. He has also worked as a cable television host, writer and producer. Nina Parikh (Jackson, MS) is deputy director of the Mississippi Film Office, and has worked on films such as Oh Brother, Where Art Thou; The Ponder Heart; and Big Bad Love. She produced a documentary called Belles and Whistles (currently in film festivals) and is working on two others.

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media (July 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072229292
• ISBN-13: 978-0072229295
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,305,338 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy-to-understand & thoroughly "user friendly", October 8, 2003

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This review is from: Get Creative! The Digital Video Idea Book (Paperback)

In Get Creative! The Digital Video Idea Book, Todd Stauffer & Nina Parikh effective collaborate to present an approachable, easy-to-understand, thoroughly "user friendly", and confidently recommended instructional guide showing how to create professional looking home videos, sales videos for a small business, beautiful wedding videos, even documentary or feature films. Stauffer and Parikh share all the essentials, from choosing the right camera and computer equipment to working with lighting and sound. They also discuss planning, writing, and producing the video, along with the camera, software, and editing techniques necessary for completion.