Little Digital Video Book, The

Chapter 3. Shooting

So now that you're familiar with the fundamental parts of your camera and what they do, let's see what you can do with them. This chapter goes over basic terms and concepts associated with shooting to edit. As you get more experience with editing, you'll be better able to shoot in a way that gives you the material you'll need. And of course, the more experience you have shooting, one would presume, the better quality of video you'll have.

The First Important Thing About Shooting

Shooting a video is not making a video.

Before the advent of digital video and easy-to-use software packages, editing was way too challenging for most folks. Consequently, the only way to get reasonable home video was to “edit in the camera.” While this ...