Filmmaking is hard work. It requires many creative and technical choices during production and in post production to make just a simple scene. Spuds gives three video and audio exercises that helped him learn how to make short films.
5 Royalty Free Music Sites for Videos
Need affordable music for your video projects that's easy to find and sounds divine? Check out these top 5 free music download sites presented by the one and only, the never lonely, DJ Potato from WPMF. If you’re looking for royalty free, creative commons, and copyright free background music for your videos, then you will be escorted, without fear of being deported, to the best free sounds around.
How to Breakdown a Script
Film Crew Job Positions
Pricing, Estimating and Bidding on Video Jobs: Part 2
Pricing, Estimating and Bidding on Video Jobs: Part 1
If you’ve been in the business for a while, you not only know how to estimate and bid a project, you’re probably used to the negotiating that goes on as well. For those new to the game, in this video series, we look at not only the mechanics of how you determine what to charge, like your hourly and day rate but also tips on how to deal with negotiating.
Magic Lantern vs Canon 5D Mark III
Magic Lantern software helps push the Canon 5D mark iii to its limits. What does that look like and is it worth it? Spuds shot some tests while in Hawaii (vacation? What vacation?) with his Galaxy Note 4, Canon 5D mark iii recording h.264, and then raw using Magic Lantern software installed on the camera. The results are very interesting.
6 Editing Tips to Create Great How-To Videos
If you produce how-to and tutorial videos, you know that getting your shots is half the job, the other is editing. Frank explores some simple editing tips and tricks to help you improve the quality of your instructional videos and make them pop and look more professional. From adding effective narration, on-screen text, animation, audio and more.
5 Premiere Pro Tips: Or How to Help Your Baby Fall Asleep Faster
Dealing with Harsh Sunlight
If you’re used to shooting inside, taking your video camera outside can be a study in contrasts, especially here in sunny California where the midday sun is high and harsh. Frank demonstrates some tricks to work with that big lumen maker in the sky: covering diffusion, exposing for a soft background with neutral density filters (ND's) and using a bounce reflector for back-lit subjects.
How to Setup Acoustic Foam to Get Rid of Reverb
What’s the difference between reverb and echo? How do you minimize reverb in a small room without covering every inch of the walls with acoustic foam? What is good acoustic foam? Spuds covers all this and more as he shows how he strategically set up acoustic foam panels on his walls to minimize reverb when he records sound and when he edits audio.
Lux and Lumens Explained
Lumens and Lux have started showing up in the specs for video as well as commercial lights, but what are they and how can you use them? Frank explains the difference between Lux, Lumens and Foot Candles, how to convert them, and which specs are helpful and which aren’t when you're purchasing or renting lights for your video production.