Now, take out your DV, DC, or any other tools to record the exciting Olympic events in Beijing. Just record the fantastic Olympic moments and enjoy wandering around the world heritages to keep the wonderful memories in mind forever. As long as your video is published, people will admire your experience, be surprised by your works, and appreciate your video editing talents. Don’t hesitate, come on and see how this will be done!
Part One: Collect the most wonderful memories - how to capture the exciting moments.
Part Two: Create your master pieces - how to get the most personalized videos.
Part Three: Share these great moments - how to upload your own videos to websites or blogs.
Part Four: Save these memorable experiences forever - how to burn your own DVD.
With all of the skills above, you will find it more enjoyable in Beijing. Wish you a marvelous time and enjoy sharing the special recalls.
Part One: Collect the most wonderful memories - how to capture the exciting moments.
1. How to record the exciting games with DV?
No matter what kind of DV you are using, professional or non-professional, you will find it necessary to know some tips about how to get the high quality videos or tips for traveling with your video camera. You will be more professional on this.
2. How to capture the most wonderful stuffs with your DC
What you get from DV may be too general. Sometimes cameras are better at capturing the specific moments. Here is an article telling you a compilation of tips, tricks and recommended settings for the Nikon D300, and is based on various discussions in forums and other D300 sites.
There are thousands of Digital Cameras. So let’s take Nikon D300 as an example.
Maybe your camera is different from the one above. I also have some guides on DC in general. If you are a green hand on this, you will find them useful.
3. How to use your handset to capture wonderful pictures and videos
If you don’t want to take a DV or DC, you can also record or take pictures with your handset. Many of the cell phones have a 3 megapixel camera or more, which is similar with a DC. So don’t worry about whether you can get nice pictures from your mobile.
There are also thousands of brands of handsets with cameras. Let’s take NOKIA N95 as an example. Here are the tips.
a. Click the capture button half-way, you will hear the camera focusing. Firmly click the button when you get the picture clear.
b. Hold the button for at least 1 second after you hear the capture noise, or there will be motion tail or Squint left.
c. The third point which you should notice is that you must keep the subject right in the middle of yo screen
Enjoy your master pieces - how to get the most personalized videos ?
Now you get your favorite videos. How to edit them? Here I’d like to recommend you some tools and skills to edit your video.
1. Windows Movie Maker for most beginners
First, let’s take a look at Window Movie Maker.
As editing software, Windows Movie Maker is easy to use and convenient tool for users.
Let me tell you the simple steps for editing videos:
Step 1: Capture videos from DV device:
First you must make sure that you have turned on and connected the DV device to the computer. In "Capture Video", choose "Capture from video device" to import home digital videos into the collection panel of the program.
Step 2: Edit Movie:
After importing video clips, it is time to add titles, effects, and transitions for the output whole movie.
Click "View video effects" and come to the interface of the effects. Choose and drag the effect you like into each clip on storyboard. Then each clip has its own visual effects. After this, click "View video transitions" and drag your favorite transition into the storyboard and put it between two video clips. This creates different transitions to join the adjacent video clips. For adding the title and credit, click "Make titles or credits" to choose where to add them. Add the text into the required box as the title or credit of the movie. At last, click "Done" to finish the process.
Step 3: Finish Movie:
Here you can preview the whole edited movie on preview panel and choose to save the movie according to different use.
Okay, all finished, but you can’t edit online videos in Windows Movie Maker, so you can view the following skills.
2. How to download videos from YouTube to our PC and add effects?
It is well known that the downloaded files from video-sharing websites are FLV files. So it is better to import and convert FLV into other format like AVI and MPEG acceptable with Windows Movie Maker. Now let’s take FLV to Video Converter as the example to show the process.
Not like Windows Movie Maker, installed automatically together with Windows operating system, you have to download and install the program on your PC first. Open Moyea FLV to Video Converter and run the built-in tool: FLV Downloader. Then you can follow a tutorial about how to download YouTube videos. After the download, you can import the FLV files into the program and convert them into MPEG.
OK, now it is ready for you to edit the converted YouTube Videos as MPEG files in Windows Movie Maker.
3. Adobe Premiere
Besides Windows Movie Maker, another editing program, Adobe Premiere, is also very popular and even more professional. If you are one of the users of Adobe Premiere, you may find it important to know how to use Adobe Premiere.
Adobe Premiere is also the program which can not accept FLV files import. To edit the downloaded YouTube videos, I recommend you a plug-in program: FLV Importer for Adobe Premiere Pro
More great and free Video Editors, you can refer to: http://www.video-to-flash.com/free_video_editor/
Share these great moments - how to upload your own videos to website or blogs
Now you get the videos with your personalized effects. Let’s see how to save or share your videos.
Online videos are more and more popular now. When you get your special Olympic videos or memorable sight spots, why not share them with your friends online? It is very easy and with great fun.
You can add videos in two ways. The first is to upload the code directly to your server which builds your website; the second way is to add the video to your website or blog from other video sites. Still we need many programs for help.
1. Add your best videos to your website for sharing
For beginners, I think this way may be easy. You just need a tool named Flash Video MX Pro to convert your video to .flv or .swf, for upload. The following site will tell you how to convert videos to Flash video and upload online.
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Pros:
a. You can add many special effects to the video with this program.
b. The generated .swf file can be used as a flash player on your website. So you can use your own personalize control bar.
c. This video is uploaded from your own server, so you can edit or delete it any time you like.
d. There is no loss of video quality.
2. Share your favorite video on your blogs.
If you never register your own blog, I think you can try Google or Yahoo blogs, sign up a new account, write a new article, where you can insert your videos, and then upload. Alternatively, you can link your blog address directly to the famous video sites, and then you can add the video from the video sites to your blogs and websites. This is really easy.
It is easy to embed these videos from other video-sharing sites. But in all, you are using their videos. If the video is deleted from that site, you won’t be able to keep it on your own site any more. And there is some loss of video quality.
In one word, it depends on your needs to choose the way to share your videos, since any of them has its advantages.
Okay, now you get your videos online. Don’t forget to tell your website to your friends.
Share these great moments - Save these memorable experiences forever - how to burn your own DVD
If you don’t like online videos and would like to share your works to you friends via DVD, or enjoy HD movies with your home theater, this article will be helpful.
First, the video you have now is .avi, or .wmv (if your video was edited with Windows Movie Maker) (See how to edit videos with Windows Movie Maker. You must convert them into DVD format, such as .vob. You can convert with some Video Converters.
There are lots of applications which can burn your video into CD or DVD, such as Nero 8 or NTI Media Maker. Now let’s take Nero 8 as an example to introduce the steps:
Step 1: Just download and install this program, and run it.
Step 2: Click the button "create and edit’ in the main interface, and then select "Author, edit and capture videos".
In this interface, you may notice the "rip and burn" option, if you choose it, you need to convert your video to .vob. So you need to download the Video Converter and follow my guide.
Import your videos by clicking the "Add" button.
Select "DVD (.*vob)" in the "Profile" box.
Click the big triangle button on the right bottom of the interface, and start converting.
When you get the converted .vob file, you can burn the video to CD or DVD with Nero.
Step 3: Just for a moment, it will run anther program. As you know, Nero 8 has integrated many tools. For the burn process, you can view this page: How to burn a DVD-Video Disc with Nero Burning ROM.
Tips: you should notice which format your DVD player will be supported.
For more free burn software and guides, you can view this page:
Hack Attack: Burn almost any video file to a playable DVD
Moreover, Moyea is holding the video making activity, which encourages people to make video. If you are interested, you can participate to win free upgrade or software. Fantastic things are waiting for you!
