Making Your Home Video More Memorable This Christmas
Making Your Home Video More Memorable This Christmas
Producing home videos of your holidays will be really fun and enjoyable for your family and friends, and also bring you lots of beautiful memories. The best home movies should concentrate on the most wonderful moments and should skip all the uninteresting details that may bore viewers. It’s not any kind else of recording; it’s a home movie that means for entertainment only.
You should first rough out the scenes you want to capture and their length; especially if this is a home movie of holiday like Christmas. You should consider the moments you want to capture. For example, if a trip is just part of the holiday and you just want to record it as a segment of the movie, map it out in advance and record the best places that you visit. Make a detailed log of everything recorded so that you will be able to edit later when you begin to put together
all the captured videos. Keep the log with the camcorder so that you can cut out scenes you don’t need as you go along.
Always provide action to make the film more interesting because people in action in the film are much more interesting than static shots of people just standing still. Remember scenery is fine in small doses; as long as it can add context to the film. Recorded voices are usually garbled or too low for this kind of film. So you can speed up the action to give the impression of an entire action in just a few seconds. Use voice-over to comment on the action. For dubbing on the action, you can try AV Video Morpher (http://dvd-player.audio4fun.com/movie-editor.htm). The program can help you dub your own voices (http://mp3-player.audio4fun.com/tutorials/video-morpher-tutorials-project07.htm) into movies for comments.
Editing the movie
after the trip can be made easy. You already have the list of shots you have recorded. Use it to put the shots together into a coherent film. With subtitles for each clip you can make a finished film or any number of finished productions. Also AV Video Morpher can help you insert subtitles (http://mp3-player.audio4fun.com/tutorials/video-morpher-tutorials-project11.htm) into your clips. You can change the chronology of the clips and put titles at the beginning of each version.
Be as creative as possible without producing an incoherent jumble. Keep your finished products short. Three minutes usually takes three hours to put together. So make several three minute films to keep the task doable and to keep your audience in their seats. The transition periods between segments will give those who were filmed a chance to reflect on the moments they shared together.
These short segments make great gifts when saved onto DVDs as mini films or you can put together a longer DVD version and give that to the actors and actresses. You and they can then save them onto PCs or laptops. AV Video Morpher can help you burn your film into DVDs or convert from DVDs (http://mp3-player.audio4fun.com/tutorials/video-morpher-tutorials-project09.htm) into your PC or laptop under multi video formats.
AV Video Morpher is a movie editing program of AVnex. It can help you produce your own movies by dubbing your own voices into movies, adding effects, and then burning it all to a DVD. Also you can remove the original voices from any movie or clip, and dub in your own voices later.
Your best travel clips may have educational value when uploaded onto internet sites like YouTube or as classroom aids. If you just let your films
settle into your private archive, your time and effort may be wasted. Your films could be out visiting interesting places, just as you were when recorded them.
Have fun and Merry Christmas!
E.M.
Eric McDaniel is a writer who specializes in music software. He could be contacted at media@audio4fun.com.
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