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Tips For Shooting UnderwaterWith various action camera choices these days and access to affordable waterproof housings, underwater shooting is not the technical nightmare it used to be.Check out the video below for some excellent and practical tips on planning and pulling off an underwater shoot.How to Shoot in Daylight Without Lights or ReflectorsThis is what … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Shooting Underwater, Action Cams and Transitions

Isobuster Updated Last week I included a little blurb on a free utility I often use called MediaInfo. You can read about it here. Anyway this week it turns out another program I use quite often has just released a major update so I wanted to add a bit on that one as well. The program I am talking about is Isobuster so for those of you who are unfamiliar with it let me … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Isobuster Updates, B-Roll and D.I.Y ADR

5 Audio Tricks For the average amateur video maker probably one of the hardest things to control at the shooting stage is that of audio. Most of the time due to equipment constraints and a lack of control over the shooting environment you end up with audio that is all over the place. Taming this beast in editing software is somewhat possible but even then the results can be … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Audio Tips and Transitions on Titles

Learn How to Properly Compress Your Footage One point that seems to come up quite often around the traps is how to maintain image quality when uploading to services like YouTube and Instagram. In order to really be able to do that you have to understand at least some part of the process your videos are going through before they appear in playback on your screen or someone … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Compression, B-roll and Insert Shots

Full Frame VS APS-C VS MICRO 4/3 One of the really annoying aspects of choosing a suitable video camera is that the subject is a minefield of terminology. Unless you are prepared to do a ton of research and work your way through learning another ton of technical terms and words you will get lost. In an ideal world camera manufacturers would help you though that learning … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Sensors, Camera Moves and Fog