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Green Screen Challenge with Stephen Colbert

My day isn’t complete unless I top it off with The Colbert Report on Comedy Central. I positively LOVE the guy and think he is a comic genius. So when I saw the other day that he was having another green screen challenge, I knew I had to take it!

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Video Editing

How to Green Screen

You see green screen on TV all the time. The most common example of green screen is the weather report. The weather-guesser stands in front of a lime green background and the different weather maps are chroma-keyed in behind him. This way, the weather-guesser looks like he is in front of a US map one second and a local map the next second. In reality, he is in front of neither; they are merely video images chroma-keyed in.

July 2, 2008 | Read the story »

Video Production Tips

Green Screen Challenge with Stephen Colbert

My day isn’t complete unless I top it off with The Colbert Report on Comedy Central. I positively LOVE the guy and think he is a comic genius.

So when I saw the other day that he was having another green screen challenge, I knew I had to take it!

July 1, 2008 | Read the story »

Create Better Home Movies

Hot New Video Tips

Do you want to learn about editing video on a computer? Then this video is for you! Discover the mystery behind the basics that drive most newbie video editors crazy

November 23, 2007 | Read the story »

Video Accessories

What Kind of Video Camera Battery Charger Should I Buy?

When I recently spoke with a video production newbie, he told me the biggest question he had was what kind of battery charger to buy with his video camera.

He wondered whether he should get one that came with a separate battery charger or one where the camera WAS the battery charger.

November 5, 2007 | Read the story »

Video Cameras, Video Production Tips

The FLIP Camera

Digital video camera technology has now brought us the remarkable FLIP camera, a tiny handy little video camera that makes shooting video so simple my grandmother could do it!

April 23, 2008 | Read the story »

Video Production Basics

DIGITAL VIDEO FILE FORMATS AND OTHER TECHNICAL MUMBO-JUMBO

In the world of digital video, there are lots of pegs… JPEGS, MJPEGS, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-3, MPEG- 4 and variations of, on and on and on. Each one of these is a distinct file format with different uses. Here is an in-depth explanation of each.

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December 2, 2007 | Read the story »