Using F-stop, ISO, built in level indicator in a DSLR for filming

F-stop   An f-stop is a unit of measurement for aperture, which is essentially the size of the hole that opens up in your camera when you snap a picture. Different apertures can increase or decrease your depth of field, which is the amount of your shot that’s in focus.  F-stop measurements look like this: f/2.8, f/4, f5.6, f/8 and f/22, with the smaller the number meaning the larger the hole. The larger the number, the more likely the entirety of your image will be in focus (the foreground and the background, while only the foreground will be in focus […]

Video Editing a Fashion video

This month we created two videos for Deanne Castro, a Toronto fashion stylist. Check out her new video that we’ve put together for her. It was filmed and edited at Azure Production Inc. Adobe After effects were used in the opening sequence, the main video was edited by Sony Vegas, and the music came from Jamendo.com

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Using Colour Bars In Video Production

Those brightly-coloured bars you see when your television isn’t quite working properly actually have a purpose. But they’re not generated from your television – they’re created by either the camera itself or the post-production equipment. They are used to provide a reference point for videos and video equipment to help set up the monitor. If you’re a computer user, you may be aware of the fact that colours can look different on all monitors. This is true for televisions, and it is also true to the monitors used to create the television and film we know and love. While the […]

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How to convert from HD hard drive camcorders to DVD video

Many people who use a camcorder at home or even professionally will want to transfer their footage to their computer at some points. When it comes to home movies or professional movies, the end result is usually desired to be the ability to burn the footage to DVD using your computer. If you want to find the best HD hard drive camcorder that is well-suited to transfer to the computer, TopTen Reviews has a list comparing all of the features of some of the models that came out in 2013. Camcorder top reviews Types of camcorders on the market There […]