Color balancing and correcting all start from correct white balance but where do you start if you have actors of various races and skin tones? If you understand how to read the skin tone line on the vectorscope, it can make all the difference.
Finding Your Video Style with 3 Simple Video Tests
10 Onset Tips for Filmmakers
3 Tips for Beginner Filmmakers
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.