Digital SLR Video and Filmmaking For Dummies

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Making Your Movie

In This Chapter

Creating your project

Transferring media

Working in the timeline

Assembling the edit

Getting audio levels right

Using titles

After you have a lay of the DSLR land, it’s time to begin making your movie. But that process doesn’t involve just slapping a bunch of clips together and calling it a night. Well, it does, if you’re looking for the fast-food equivalent of a movie. You can go that route, or you can properly organize all of your elements. It’s sort of a pay now or pay later kind of thing.

The road to moviemaking bliss begins with creating a project for all the elements of your movie. That means you should gather all of the movie clips, audio, and photos that are relevant to the movie together in the same place. Understanding how to get those ...