Video: Journalists' Toolkit

A training site for multimedia and online journalists

Guides and Tutorials

Make Internet TV: A guide to how to do almost anything with video

Guides from FourDocs: How to plan, shoot, edit and compress your documentary video

• Shooting Guide (types of shots, illustrated and explained)
• Editing Essentials (instructions for iMove, Windows Movie Maker, Final Cut Pro, etc.)

Video Tips for Still Photographers, by Regina McCombs (one-page PDF)

Top 10 Mistakes of Rookie Filmmakers, by videographer Bill Pryor

Shooting on the Go: Avoid shaking, jumpy video by learning how to steady your camera -- without a tripod

Filmmaker's Tool Kit: Creating a Movie with Web 2.0: Advice about many free online tools for production and post-production

Blogs and Discussion Forums

Unlocking iMovie '08 -- Lots of help here

News Videographer -- Angela Grant's blog

VideoJournalism -- Cyndy Green's blog

Mastering Multimedia -- Colin Mulvany's blog

Newspaper Video -- discussion forum on Yahoo! groups

Windows Movie Maker Tutorials

From Microsoft, but good anyway:

• Capturing video
• Trim your clips
• Import an audio track
• Add narration
• More WMM tutorials

Massive Resource Site

Ken Stone's Final Cut Pro: More than just FCP tutorials; also audio, DVD burining, hardware reviews, compression tips -- and more!

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