Global Giving
APRIL 28, 2016
This may sound hard, but a clear, concise, key message is vital to creating a successful video. Use the first column for imagery and the second column for audio. A video treatment app like Cinema FV5 or Movie Looks (to add color treatments to your video, if so desired). iMovie (for assembling all the pieces into a movie.
Tech Soup
MAY 19, 2011
An effective nonprofit video can be as simple as a Flickr photo stream set to an audio track or a really great interview. However, one aspect of quality, sound quality, did warrant mention. Today's smartphones have fairly sophisticated built-in video cameras and editing tools that, if used wisely, can create great movies.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 15, 2011
DSLR Audio Isn’t Good. To capture better audio get a camera with a mic-in jack (these are a bit more expensive) or get a portable recorder. Either way you’ll need to add a microphone to the mix to get the best sound. The least expensive and easiest to use options are iMovie and Windows Movie Maker. Lighting Your Subjects.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 7, 2007
But one scenario, well I had that very question in a video I just published : I create a short movie, comprised of a video clip and three digital photos that I took, my -over and a royalty-free soundtrack song, which I bought from Premium Beat. s licensing and that of the sound bite? Sounds of Samba??? shout-out???
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 1, 2007
I have to stick it in people's faces to get acceptable (to me) audio quality. Speaking of good audio, I raised this question on the video bloggers listserv and David Tames (who took the photo stills in the video) offered some great tricks here. How to use more than one audio track. So, I like let them know.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 6, 2007
Some techniques that I learned about that I want to put into practice in future work: Capturing secondary audio with an external mic and recorder and then synching them during the editing process. How to make the transitions smoother without that annoying burp sound or without it abrupting stopping midstream. When is it best to ???shot
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 22, 2007
However, the idea of editing a long file in Camtasia does not sound appealing to me.). So that left me with a few hours of video and audio to edit and that's too much to do in Camtasia. Because the screencast is conversational, the screen doesn't have to exactly synch the audio. I recently read a blog entry by Jon Udell.
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