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Tips and Tricks
Magic happens twice every day
If you want to capture warmer and more dynamic colours, shoot as much as you can around the magic hour of sunrise and sunset. The light comes in at a more unusual angle at this time of day and will directly affect the look of your final image.
For some unknown reason, I tend to end up shooting more often in the evening sun, although you certainly feel like a hero for the rest of the day when you actually get up early enough to shoot that morning light.
Published by Graham Walker on August 16 .
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GeoVlogging = Videoblogging + GeoTagging
Virtual travels of experience
The “geotagged” tag has been implemented for both del.icio.us and Flickr, but I am proposing that we start using a more specific tag called “geovlogged“. Using the specific geovlogged tag along with geo:lat=X and geo:long=Y allows us to represent a video post with a geographical location.
Check out the new VlogMap GeoVlogged Video Map I just launched today.
And for all you lucky Windows users, be sure to downlaod the new VlogMap GeoVlogged Google Earth Data.
Published by Matt Savarino on August 15 .
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Tips and Tricks
I have been getting a lot of comments about the quality of the video that I have been posting on my vlog TravelVlog and was asked if I could explain a little about how I get to my final product to look the way it does. While I am no master shooter/editor, I have learned a trick or two that I think might be worth sharing. So I will be sharing these tips and tricks over the next while. The most important thing to remember though is that the work you put into the entire process from shooting to editing to compression all directly have an effect on the quality of your final output. The second most important thing to remember is that nothing that I will say is any sort of rule, just my perspective on what you may want to consider to get better quality images
Limit the cross zoom transition. A dead give away of a novice editor is the overuse of the cross-zoom transition. In editing argot, it is mainly used as a device to show the passage of time and not as a way to deal with a harsh edit. Instead look for natural transition points. Often only a hint of movement at the end or start of the footage is needed to provide a more natural cut. People walking into frame, cars passing by, someone turning their head, even that crazy camera twist as you bring your camera down when you turn off the record button can give you that slight movement you need make a more seamless and organic transition to your next cut.
Published by Graham Walker on August 14 .
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Legal Guide for Bloggers (and Vloggers)
This may be old news to some of you, but The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Legal Guide for Bloggers is a must read. Until the media establishment and everyone else wraps their head around vlogging and it’s cultural implications, citizen journalists will need to learn to protect themselves.
EFF - Legal Guide for Bloggers
Published by Joe Eastham on July 22 .
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