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Comment on The best video export options by liliya

liliya — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 18:14:05 +0000

answered all my questions, thanks

Comment on 7 Do’s and Don’ts for Video on Point-and-Shoot Cameras by Gustavo

Gustavo — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 19:57:37 +0000

Hey man, great tips.
I translated your text and put in my site with your credits. Thats ok ?

http://www.cineasta81.com.br/7-dicas-para-filmar-com-cameras-portateis/

Comment on Web hosting and domain names by Mindy McAdams

Mindy McAdams — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 17:08:13 +0000

This post at Lifehacker (December 2011) provides a short list of some recommended domain name providers:

http://lifehacker.com/5870649/ditch-godaddys-sopa+loving-butt-and-get-a-better-web-host-at-a-discount

This is a NEWER list than the one linked in the blog post above.

Comment on Good tutorial sites for HTML, HTML5, CSS, jQuery by Mindy McAdams

Mindy McAdams — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 14:52:26 +0000

Thanks, Mike! I’m very familiar with Stack Overflow – I’ve had so many questions answered there.

Treehouse is new to me.

The Fusion Tables tutorials at Google are great. Thanks for adding that.

Comment on Good tutorial sites for HTML, HTML5, CSS, jQuery by mikewhills

mikewhills — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 07:21:05 +0000

Handy list Mindy, thanks! A few more useful sites:

Treehouse – tutorial site similar to Codecademy
http://teamtreehouse.com/

Stack Overflow – Q&A site where pretty much every problem you could have has already been solved and documented
http://stackoverflow.com/

Google Developers – unsurprisingly Google have some great documentation for things like Fusion Tables and Maps
https://developers.google.com/fusiontables/
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/

Comment on iMovie 09 tutorials for journalism students by Michelle B

Michelle B — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 01:09:51 +0000

Hallelujah. This is SO helpful. You’ve saved me a huge amount of time. Thanks!

Comment on 7 Do’s and Don’ts for Video on Point-and-Shoot Cameras by Joe Gullo

Joe Gullo — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 22:06:31 +0000

Excellent tips!

Another helpful tip would be the use of a tripod.

Joe Gullo

Comment on 7 Do’s and Don’ts for Video on Point-and-Shoot Cameras by Mindy McAdams

Mindy McAdams — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:22:26 +0000

You are correct about No. 2, Andrew — when you are experienced, it’s okay to break the rules. I find that beginners do not notice they are moving the camera, and that leads to a lot of unusable shots. So first, train yourself not to move at all. Later, you can choose to move (when it makes sense to do so).

I haven’t used one of those newer point-and-shoots with real zoom for video. It sounds nice!

Comment on 7 Do’s and Don’ts for Video on Point-and-Shoot Cameras by Andrew Lih

Andrew Lih — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:42:14 +0000

Number 6 is the most important: don’t do Portrait mode!

I’ll take a slight issue to #1, where the advice is valid ~90% of the time. However, newer P&S cameras have recognized this and have optical, slow zoom instead of the inferior and useless “digital zoom”. The Panasonic DMC-ZS3 and higher models, for example, have this feature, as do some Canons.

Number 2 can be broken if you know what you’re doing — basically have one concept per shot. If you know how to edit video, you can pan/tilt. Otherwise, shooting a set of “still” videos is a good basic approach.

Comment on Those awesome little Olympus recorders work great with Mac OS by Mindy McAdams

Mindy McAdams — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:15:38 +0000

That’s a pricy little Olympus, Mike! Thanks for the recommendation. Have you used the Zoom H2? For $40 extra, I think it does a lot more.