Friday, March 9, 2012

Use Your Very Own Digital Camcorder Camera Properly

By John McCullough


Your digital camcorder camera could offer higher quality footage and pictures when you use it properly. It's incredible how many people would purchase a digicam and attempt to use it without studying the instruction booklet. You might think you already know everything there is to know about taking pictures but every digicam will be somewhat different than another model. It pays to get to know the one you have purchased.

When taking videos of individuals you have to try to put them at ease or else you will not get the perfect results. Typically individuals hate being filmed so try turning off the tally light to make them much less self conscious. A lot of cameras offers you the option of turning this red light off. Try it for yourself as you might just discover the improvement in the photographs you collect is quite dramatic.

Do not be lazy and make use of the built in date and time stamp on your video recordings. Yes you most likely do want to mark the occasion but this doesn't mean you have to put these details onto the movie itself. There are other more better ways of record keeping.

Do not get fooled by the various marketing and advertising messages you would see or hear when studying/viewing the promotional materials associated with that brand of high definition camcorder. For example some brands highlight the fact that the digital camera has a zoom lens. Usually the effects of this zoom will lead to deterioration in the image quality you collect so turn it off. You have an optical zoom so master this instead.

If you want to add special effects to your video clips do it afterward with a video editing software program rather than attempting to do it as you're taking the footage. Using software permits you to remove those bits that you do not want to include whereas when you add the effects during filming with your digital camcorder camera you might be stuck with the results forever.



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