Taking Home Movies to the Next Level
* Edit edit edit. Good film making results in a fairly cluttered cutting room floor. Don’t be afraid to edit out uncle Henry’s silly dance. Consider editing out any really noticeable camera shakes. The idea is communicate the overall event or experience, not to record every single detail.
* Visual presentations must sound right. If you underestimate the power of sound, try watching a movie without the sound. You probably won’t last five minutes. Most of us live in a world filled with sound, and your videos should pay as much attention to the sound as any other feature. You should consider an audio editor program that will allow you to do several things; you should be able to strip out the original sound; you should be able to overdub, or add your voice to the recorded video sound track; you should be able to enhance your
