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Windows 10 Auto Upgrade or Manual? Many or most of you using Windows would have recently received a push notification on your device informing you of the impending release of Windows 10. Microsoft are offering a free upgrade to their new system to all users of Windows 7 or 8. The obvious reason for this is most likely that they know Windows 8 was a flop and they are interested … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Win 10 Upgrades, Screen Recording Tips and Outdoor Shooting

Shooting Underwater Video With the advent of completely portable video recording devices like smartphones and action cams like the the GoPro, the idea of only taking videos under a specific set of circumstances has well and truly gone out the window. These days it is hard to think of any normal situation in life where taking a video would be beyond the capabilities of the … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Underwater Shooting, Audio Tips and Your Own Studio

Multicam Editing Projects One of the biggest pains to deal with when it comes to editing is trying to get assets from different sources or shots from different angles all together into the one project. In the past this was a hugely time consuming task and really was only attempted at the professional level or by people that really had a lot of patience! The major problem being … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Multicam Editing, SpeedArt and YouTube Changes

Wedding Video Tips I have a friend who helped me out a few years ago writing some article for me on an old photography site I used to run. One of the categories of that site was "Wedding Photography Tips" so I contacted him and asked for a good article on that subject. I felt pretty confident in asking him because after all, he had been a wedding photographer for years back in … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Wedding Video Tips, Filters Guide and Family Histories

Zoom Silliness OK this one is my "pet peeve/time to get on my soapbox rant" article for the week. This stuff really annoys me. You see the idea that you are going to achieve this incredible degree of zoom on a consumer camera and that somehow it is awesome is nothing more than a marketing lie. It is the old idea of throwing big meaningless numbers at people knowing full well … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Silly Zoom Marketing, Video Project Tips and Recording a Mobile Device