Light, Lenses, Camera, and Audio How-To Videos

NEWEST Audio Editing Tutorials:

This tutorial goes over making ALL your raw clips' audio into stereo BEFORE you start bringing them into the timeline.  You will be selecting all of your clips in the project clip bin to do this.


This tutorial goes over making the audio of your INDIVIDUAL clips already in your timeline into STEREO.  You'll want to make your dialogue into stereo so it's not just coming out of one speaker when you export it and then play it back.  It will also not be loud enough if it remains in mono (one) track.

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F-Stops, Shutter Speed, ISO, Low Key Lighting Explanation

This guy is sort of crude, but the explanations he gives are really good of f-stops, different shutter speeds, motion blur, ISO and "noise," and low key vs. high key lighting.

Nikon d3200 DSLR tutorial for shooting video

This will be useful right before you go out to shoot video with the CMP Department's DSLR cameras.

"Waterfall Video:" Frame Rate vs. Shutter Speed

Frame Rate vs Shutter Speed from Jake Primgaard on Vimeo.  This is a really good visual demonstration of shutter speed and how motion blur is sometimes desirable because we are used to seeing fast objects blurred in film and television.

F-Stop explanation (short version)


Aperture, Shutter Speed, ISO Explained

This is a photography video, but the principles are relevant to video as well.

Using the Tripod





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Another good Three Point Lighting explanation can be found here:  http://www.graspr.com/videos/Izzy-Video-56-Behind-the-Scenes-of-Three-Point-Lighting

Aperture and Depth of Field Video:


"Trinity" Shallow Depth of Field video:



F Stops Explanation:



Image Compression Example:  Sandy Walks Sophie
When you zoom in your camera lens, the image is more interesting because it is compressed, especially if the space in front of the camera extends deep into the horizon, allowing for the illusion of depth (Z-axis). Notice how the camera on regular ("wide") angle at 0 to :30 is visually not as interesting as the zoomed-in image of the street starting at :45 and at 2:40. The regular lens shot is a typical shot of a street--you can't see very far down the street (distances also appear further away). The compressed image (:45 and 2:40) allows for more depth while compressing that depth at the same time (the city blocks look shorter--far doesn't seem so far away).

Shallow Depth of Field Practice:  Todd Talks about Life
 Here, I experimented with depth of field and my subject by placing him at different spots in relation to background and camera. Notice how the background sometimes seems blurry (especially starting at 2:05)--this is that desirable shallow depth of field we've been talking about in class. When he is close to the camera and far away from the flowering tree, there is good shallow depth of field on very zoomed-in settings. If I had placed the camera a bit further away (making the audio recording more challenging), while keeping him far away from the background, the effect would have been better because I wouldn't have had to zoom in as much.


Recording Audio "Down and Dirty" Guerilla-style


Microphone Differences:


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