Helping beginners learn the essentials needed to make better videos. We live in a world where video is no longer something that is just left to the professionals. It has become deeply ingrained into each of our lives. Whether you’re just using your smartphone to capture precious memories, you’re a budding content creator, or a small business owner looking to market your business- the influence of video is continually expanding. For whatever reason you want to start making better videos, this Videography Essentials is here to help.
Good stuff!!! Love your content and I am anxious to learn to do landscape videos! Music for me is easy!!! Coming from a musical family I find it easy to set the mood and get lots of compliments on my choices! Cannot wait to start what you have shared on landscape videos!
That's one of the great things about making videos, we all have different backgrounds going into it that shape what we create and what areas we have to focus on to develop new skills. Hope the landscape videography tips are helpful to you. Thanks for watching my videos!
Really? I love watching really old footage of crowds and traffic. To me it's interesting to see how people were in the past. The style of clothes they wore, the cars they drove, the way they carried themselves. And I often film with this in mind.
I think tip #1 should be safety. Always know your surroundings. It's easy and relatively safe to film at a beach or a coastal town, but even then, be mindful. When filming in the inner city, things are much different. Especially where crime is higher. In those situations, bring a friend or two to keep watch. Safety in numbers. Best to be safe than sorry.
Safety is important. Having taught martial arts for over 20 years, I agree that it's important to know your surroundings and stay alert. Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment!
Until 7:00, it was all spot-on in the explanations. But not anymore, then. ISO setting does NOT "adjust the sensor's sensitivity to light", absolutely not. As you mentioned, this is a "gain" setting (as written in some broadcast and cinema cameras), meaning it is an amplification of the signal. The sensor's sensitivity is fixed by design, and this is the business of the manufacturer to do so. They will choose to conceive either a highly sensitive sensor (such as in the Sony A7S3, or in specialized scientific cameras) or a poorly sensitive sensor (such as many cinema cameras, that request lots of artificial or natural light to function). But this level of sensitivity is FIXED, and it will never change nor anyone will ever be able to change it. What ISO (or "gain") does is amplifying the signal received by the sensor, thanks to the whole electronic circuitry attached to it. It works a similar way to what sound amplifiers (or preamplifiers, if you go into details) do. They receive a signal with a fixed level and their circuitry amplifies it when you turn the knob (or press the dedicated button). A sensor's sensitivity will never change, from the moment it leaves the factory to the moment it shall cease to function, and that is crucial to understand. Because when we understand this concept with ease, we also understand why there may be distortion applied to the signal if we want to amplify it too much. In digital imagery, this distortion is called "noise" or, more precisely, "digital image noise" : the purple/grey/green/etc colours we see in the images created with a high ISO level ( = a high level of amplification, and a high level of distortion as a side-effect). Telling users they can change the sensitivity of their cameras sensors will lead them to believe they can adjust this indefinitely without any negative consequences, and this is very misleading. If one uses a film camera, the sensitive surface can change every time a new film is inserted into the camera body. The user will decide to use the same film or not, giving him the freedom to change the sensitivity of the surface as a result. In digital imagery, this freedom is lost (then we get many others in return) and we have use sensors with fixed (or determined by design) sensitivity, also named "native". Hope this was a clear and simple enough explanation, so everyone has a decent understanding of how things go in the digital ages. If not, I can always try to improve those explanations.
It is very true that iso is not technically the camera sensors sensitivity to light. But I think it's a sufficient enough explanation for beginners. I don't think they will assume they can adjust this setting indefinitely, as you say, seeing as it is also discussed in the video that noise is a byproduct of manipulating this setting. Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment.
Thank you for this. It is by far the best instructional video for any software that I have seen. I have persisted with Pinnacle Studio for around 20 years, regularly paying for the upgrades but I would get very frustrated trying to work out how to use features which I thought should be much easier to to use. You and DaVinci have rekindled my motivation to dig out a lot of my raw video footage from activities over many years that have just been stored away, as I couldn't face the task of editing it with Pinnacle. Every now and then I would try another recommended program with the same result. I can't thank you enough and you will be be my go to guide for future help. Keep up the great work.
Excellent overview of Resolve! However, even as you say the free version is intended for beginners, I find it VERY difficult to learn because I can't SEE it! The UI is dim grey over black and it evidently can't be changed. Ostensibly this is because "colorists" (whoever they are) prefer working in the dark. Resolve seems to be a great replacement for Adobe Premiere but for me, I've had it with squinting and now have to look for another product.
Beneficial information. thank you for sharing. It's very easy to get caught up in the noise of the latest gear trends... I will be holding on to my G7 until I outgrow it... Thanks again.
Thank you for making this video! I am a member of our Video Club Borne (the Netherlands). With in this club we are enhancing our skills. Videos like these shure help. I will bring your channel under the attention of our members.
As always, straight to the point in you tutorials, thanks. I have several friends in bands wanting to make music videos. All they have is a "cool spot" , but no story or planning of any kind. Thanks again, high five from Norway!
Helpfull and straight to the point video, thanks. Camera shakes and composition are fundamental basics, that I often forget. Espesially when filming live bands, I get stressed and start moving camera everywhere to catch the coolest bandmember-moves all the time just ending up in a lot of caos, and having to rely on the tripodcameras on the sides, making the video dull to watch. I subscribe ;-)
Could be helpful to have one or two other people with you when filming a live event like that. Then make a plan for where/what each person is going to focus their attention on. Then maybe still have some locked off wide shots on tripods that you can always cut back to from time to time. Thanks for watching!
Notes: While RU-vid and Facebook are mentioned in this video, the topics discussed apply regardless of what platform you choose to use. Of course, there are many other options that you have to choose from. Additionally, this video was filmed a few years ago when vlogging was more popular and many people were engaging in daily vlogging. That said the concept of sharing those real, raw, and unedited behind the scenes moments in your business is still applicable.
The fair is such a dynamic place, there's so much opportunity to practice your filmmaking skills. What other places do you think would make for good practice?
If you have a sec, let me know what topics you'd like to see covered in future videos. And if you enjoyed this one, please give it a thumbs up. This is a lesson taken out of my Videography Essentials course.
Per your request: I recently tried to edit some drone videos in Davinci Resolve in 3840X2160 HD for eventual upload onto RU-vid. The videos were shot at 50fps because I planned to use some slow motion from the videos in the RU-vid upload. When I began the edit in Davinci, I set the timeline for 50fps to allow for smooth video at 24fps for the slow motion video. When I finished the edit, I exported at 50fps in 3840X2160 HD for the RU-vid upload. After I viewed the private RU-vid upload, I was dismayed at the quality of the video and discovered that RU-vid had downgraded the resolution to 2560X1440. That is the highest resolution RU-vid will allow for a 50fps upload. I then tried to export the edited video from Davinci at 24 fps, but Davinci would not allow me to do that because I had set the initial fps on the video at 50fps. That is the fps I HAD to export the video at. The video remains on my "workbench" until I can discover how to export it at 24fps to allow viewing on RU-vid in 3340X2160 HD. My question for you, and possibly the topic of a video on your channel, is what type of workaround is there for this situation. How can I edit a video in Davinci with a relatively high fps (>=50) for quality slow motion and export to a more standard fps (e.g. 24) to enable 3840X2160 HD viewing on RU-vid and other mediums? Thank you for reading this reply and for all of the GREAT education videos you have on your channel. They are the BEST.
@@FoolWithACamera0 Are you outside the US? If you're shooting in 50fps for slow motion, I'm guessing 25 fps is a standard frame rate. I would set that as your project frame rate. Your 50fps video will playback smooth on a 25fps timeline. (note: in your current project you can turn on stacked timelines. Then go to file, new timeline. When you create your new timeline, uncheck use project settings. This will allow you to create a new timeline with a frame rate different from your project settings. Then you can copy and paste everything you've worked on from your previous timeline into this timeline with your new frame rate. You will now be able to render at this framerate.) Now, by default your 50fps footage will playback in real-time on your 25fps timeline. You can then slow the footage down to 50% speed on this timeline, while maintaining smooth slow motion.
@@videographyessentials Thank you so much for your detailed reply. I am not very familiar with the rabbit warren of features in DR, so your suggestions will likely take me some time to use, but it will be a good learning experience. Again, thank you for your quick response and all of the time and effort you put into your RU-vid channel.
I started my first business just out of high school back in '05. Even back then, video was a crucial part of building that business. Since that time, I've had the pleasure of working with many different kinds of businesses on their video marketing. Hope you enjoy! More to come in this series. Let me know what questions you have and what topics you want to see covered.
@@videographyessentials Look forward to you future content. A guide on what to charge clients would be very helpful for beginners, such as myself, who are very new to the business. Again, thanks for your informative content.
I hope you enjoy this video! This was part of a video marketing workshop series that I put together some years back. In the future, I'll share more video marketing tips in addition to the videography tips that are already on the channel.
Couple quick notes: the composition could have used a little improvement. I think the camera either drifted down or in between takes Devin moved off his mark a little. Ideally, you won't be teaching a lesson, and will be more focused on making sure your on screen talent is framed properly. Either way, I think you get the basic lighting concept. Hope you enjoyed! Also this was taken from our Videography Essentials course.
Thank you very much, that is a very useful lesson, you used practical examples to highlight key concepts. One of the best videos I watched in the "exposure settings"
Absolute gold dust. Thank-you so much. I am looking at street video, and there are not too many instructional offerings like this. I particularly identify the whole 'nervous in public' thing. I am always terrified of being arrested or something. But you have given me some confidence to at least have a go. I will post my results when I have stumped up my bail money 😁
