Digital Audio, Video

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Digital Storytelling: Oct 12, 2001; At its roots, character animation is about storytelling. A good story gives characters motivation, conflict, and a path of action. George Maestri explores the art of animated storytelling in this article.

Digital Video Editing Tips: Organizing Your Video: Oct 27, 2008; this chapter will guide you in how to label tapes, take notes efficiently, and prepare for editing should you decide that’s what you want to do.

Distorting Objects with the Puppet Tools in After Effects CS3: Nov 14, 2008; Pull, squash, stretch, and otherwise deform objects onscreen using the After Effect CS3 Puppet tools. Whether you're creating realistic animations, fantastic scenarios, or modern art, the Adobe Creative Team shows you how the Puppet tools can expand your creative freedom.

Diving with Whales: GoPro Filmmaking: Nov 20, 2014; When filming with a GoPro, it often pays to improvise, especially when filming wildlife. Founding GoPro media team members Bradford Schmidt and Brandon Thompson explain how improvisation is key in understanding how to create optimal scenarios, predict behavior, and adapt to wildlife characters, while still capturing a climatic beat for the story. Then, watch a beautiful video of humpback whales filmed with the GoPro.

Don't Move! How to Add Motion to Your Movies: Jan 19, 2007; One of the advantages of a small camera is that it easily moves with you. However, when you're shooting, motion can become a character in its own right. Slowly moving across a scene imparts a different feeling than quickly scanning your surroundings, for example. This chapter addresses the most common ways of moving the camera to add motion to your movie, including the number one rule: don't move.

Drag-and-Drop Editing in Final Cut Pro 5: Nov 23, 2005; Final Cut Pro's flexibility allows an editor to work with different styles of editing. There's one time-saving editing style that's easy yet extremely powerful at the same time: drag-and-drop editing. This method involves dragging a clip directly to the Timeline to make an edit. This chapter will help you become familiar with this handy feature.

DV Technology and the Camcorder: Dec 30, 2005; This chapter covers the basics of shooting digital video, from the various digital video cameras available to the settings you should use to get the best quality captures from your camera.

Editing a Dialogue Scene in Adobe Premiere Pro CC: Feb 9, 2016; This chapter from Learn Adobe Premiere Pro CC for Video Communication: Adobe Certified Associate Exam Preparation shows you how to create a rough cut, edit on the timeline, understand and edit coverage, edit audio transitions, create a title crawl, use adjustment layers and effects, and review and export files.

Editing Action in Final Cut Pro 5: May 19, 2006; This chapter will teach you to edit action sequences in Final Cut Pro 5. Learning to cut action sequences is one of the most basic editing techniques that you'll need to learn to create your own movies. Action doesn't just mean fighting, so even if you don't intend an epic battle between the hero and the villain, you'll still want to read this chapter to find out how to edit these scenes.

Editing and Recording Software Instruments in GarageBand: Aug 11, 2006; In this lesson, you are going to learn editing and recording techniques for building music with Software Instrument regions. You’ll also learn how to change the tempo, record your own beats, and split, join, and change instruments for Software Instrument tracks in the Timeline.

Editing DSLR Video with Final Cut Pro X: Organizing Your Media: Feb 8, 2012; Final Cut Pro X has several tools that let you sort, sift, filter, and find the perfect shot. You can use embedded metadata as well as attach powerful keywords to improve your ability to locate the perfect shot. In this chapter you'll learn the many ways to organize your media.

Editing For Continuity: GoPro Filmmaking: Nov 24, 2014; Continuity in space means that audience members have a good sense of a video’s environment, and where characters are. Continuity in time ensures that the audience can follow what is happening, especially between cuts. Learn more from founding GoPro media team members Bradford Schmidt and Brandon Thompson, and watch the rough cut and then the final cut video of cycling in Valapairaso, Chile to see how the editor created continuity.

Editing Fundamentals in Premiere: Jun 27, 2003; Dennis Chominsky helps you get a firm grasp of the simple topics in Premiere in order to advance yourself to exceptional mastering of the program. Follow his steps, and you will be on your way to becoming a top editor.

Editing with Avid Media Composer 5: Fine-Tuning the Sequence: Oct 26, 2010; Learn how to fine-tune your rough cut in Avid Media Composer 5, including moving a transition point between two shots, fine-tuning shot length, smoothing the continuity of movement from shot to shot, creating split edits, and editing the picture to a musical beat or establishing other relationships between picture and sound.

Editing with Blade Speed in Final Cut Pro X 10.1: Mar 26, 2014; The variable speed change applies at least two different playback rates within a single clip. This effect requires dividing the clip into segments, one for each speed rate. Brendan Boykin shows you how in this excerpt from Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Pro X 10.1: Professional Post-Production.

Embedding Flash Video with Dreamweaver: Jan 4, 2008; David Karlins shows how to use Dreamweaver to embed a video clip into your own web page, presented with your own customized display skin, and surrounded by your own content.

Equipment for Video Podcasting, Part 1: Basic Cameras: Aug 24, 2009; Jennie Bourne begins a new series on equipment options for video podcasting. In part 1, she covers options for the most basic camera choices, suitable for users who are just getting started with video.

Equipment for Video Podcasting, Part 2: Cameras and Accessories to Make You Shoot Like a Pro: Oct 26, 2009; Your quick thrown-together vids that used to do the trick won't catch the eye of today's more sophisticated viewers. Jennie Bourne continues her discussion of how to upgrade your video podcasts to more professional-level equipment.

Exporting Frames, Clips, and Sequences in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5: Dec 12, 2010; This excerpt from Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 Classroom in a Book shows you all of your export options in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.