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Why Buy This Book
Early Praise
From the Back Cover
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If you're producing video in corporate,
government or educational institutions, DV 101 can help improve the
quality of your videos and save you time and money. Here's how:
It covers the videos you're working
on (not Hollywood videos, indies or documentaries):
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DV 101 focuses on the three most common institutional video projects:
executive announcements, interviews, and training videos. If you are
shooting or teaching others how to shoot these types of videos, you will
find techniques described in DV 101 immediately relevant, and they
will help you improve the quality of your video right away.
It details what you need to know (emphasis on details):
- From soup
to nuts: DV 101 is a
one-stop shop, explaining the entire production process from where to put
the camera to how to light the scene. You will learn to
shoot, edit and render
your videos, insert them into presentation software, author DVDs, and
produce closed captioning text for streaming videos and DVD.
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With detailed
direction: DV 101
details all critical decisions. For example, in the editing
chapter, DV 101 identifies six types of titles, then explains where
to place the text and what fonts to use for each. Another chapter describes step-by-step how to embed videos into Microsoft
PowerPoint and Apple Keynote and which compression technology to choose for
each application. You will work more efficiently because production
decisions are presented clearly with structured guidance.
And won't go out of
date (or ram a program you don't use down your throat):
- Software-agnostic:
DV 101 uses generic screenshots and description to present all editing
and authoring functions. The book is relevant no matter which programs you
use, and it will not become obsolete if you update your software or switch
applications.
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Application-specific companion guides:
DV 101 is supplemented by optional workbooks that explain each step
from the perspective of specific applications. Using the same projects shown
in DV 101, these visual workbooks walk through the production process
with program-specific screens illustrating each task. Click here for
companion guides for Pinnacle Studio
and Adobe Premiere Pro/Encore. An
Apple workbook is under development.
Early Praise
Jan: just taking
time out from lunch to say thanks for a good chapter on Video Compositing
...been using it as a guide. I write how to for outdoor mags, and appreciate a
good how-to book.
Chris Batin, Editor and
Publisher, Alaska Angler Alaska Hunter Publications
Jan Ozer's
book is really saving me from a lot of errors, steering me in the right
direction and giving me the confidence to try. If I follow the
directions that he illustrates so well (and humorously) I expect to
produce video that teaches, entertains and maybe even inspires the
viewer. I have never taken a formal course and am finding my way as an
amateur, but so far, with Jan's help, I am getting there with better
results than I deserve to have, so this book is very good value, and I
highly recommend it.
Kim L.
Reynolds, (from Amazon)
DV 101 is an
easy book to get your arms around, whether you're a video newbie, or
someone looking for a refresher course. The downloadable supplementary
workbooks feed you just the information you need, and nothing more.
Corporate budgets being what they are today, chances are your department
will not have funding for a large production staffed with pro
videographers. I think you will find DV 101 an indispensable guide to
real-world techniques that work without breaking the bank. From a
business user's perspective, I can say Jan Ozer's book provides the
information you'll need to produce respectable results that will delight
both your target audience and your CFO.
R. Marshall,
(from Amazon)
What we like
about the book and the workbook is that there are real life suggestions
on what to do in certain circumstances. You can do something with a
camcorder or editing software , and when you make a mistake you'll find
that the text has addressed it and has documented a fix. It's like the
author has been there and done that.....
Ken Santucci,
Professor, George Mason University
I've been shooting for a lot of years but never
considered myself very good at lighting. Your chapter was one of the
best I have ever read, making lots of suggestions for improving
technique while giving good advice on how to save money.
Hal Donovan, Video
Communications Specialist, Hazelwood School District
Over the past few years, video departments in
corporations, government offices, and academic institutions have downsized.
This hasn’t decreased the amount of video work that corporations and
institutions do, it’s simply taken that work out of the hands of video
specialists.
Today, much of the work of shooting, editing, and producing video has been
assumed by teachers, executives, staffers, and others who have never received
training in shooting with a camcorder, editing video, or producing a DVD. To
assist these new video producers, as well as other novice videographers, this
book details how to:
* Set up and shoot common projects like interviews and training
* Select and connect a microphone to your camcorder
* Inexpensively produce professional-quality lighting
* Capture, edit, and output your video for streaming or DVD
* Author and burn a DVD
* Integrate your video into PowerPoint and Apple Keynote presentations
* Create a streaming presentation with Microsoft’s PowerPoint Producer
* Create closed-captioned text for streaming and/or DVDs
Optional workbooks available on the web provide step by step instruction for
specific editing and authoring programs. Check availability at www.doceo.com/dv101.html.
Jan Ozer has worked with digital video since 1991, originally for compression
vendor Iterated Systems and since 1996 as a contributing editor to EMedia and
PC Magazine. Jan has written eight books on producing digital video and has
taught classes on digital video production since 1993, most recently for the
University of Wisconsin. Jan also shoots concerts and produces DVDs for local
musicians and music associations.
User Level: Novice to Intermediate
Chapter 1: Mastering the Video Shoot
Assumptions
Three Scenarios
Creating Your Shot List
Setting the
Scene--Executive Briefing
Chapter 2: Capturing High-Quality Audio
Identifying Your
Connection Options
Choosing Your
Microphone
Questions Before Buying
Fitting a Square Peg
into a Round Hole
Performance Comparisons
Real-World Sound
Choices
Cleaning Your Noisy
Audio
In the Workbook
Chapter 3: Lighting Your Shoots
Three-Point
Lighting--the Art of Lighting
Flat Lighting--the
Reality of Lighting
Lighting Fundamentals
The Lighting Toolset
User Scenarios
Sidebar: Professional
vs. Homegrown Lighting
Chapter 4: Digital Production Workflows
DV Production
Workflow--Definitions
DV--Our Starting Point
Chapter 5: Editing Techniques
1. Getting Started
2. Capture Your Video
3. Finalize Your Audio
Track
4. Add Cutaways,
Noddies, and Establishing Shots
5. Create Titles and
Credits
6. Add Logos and Still
Images
7. Fading In and Out
In the Workbook
Chapter 6: Shooting for Compositing and Streaming
Shooting for Chromakey
The Software Side
Shooting for Streaming
Video
In the Workbook
Chapter 7: Rendering Your Projects
Video Compression Basics
Choosing Audio Encoding
Parameters
Output to DV Tape
Producing Streaming
Files
Producing MPEG-2 Files
Producing MPEG-1 Files
Output to DV Format
In the Workbook
Chapter 8: Producing DVDs
About DVD-Recordable
Technology
What Content Can I Put
on the Disc?
How Do I Build My
Menus?
How Do I Control Viewer
Navigation?
How Do I Fit All This
On Disc?
Back on the Farm, How
Do I Build This Thing?
Time to Burn
In the Workbook
Chapter 9: Using Video in Presentations
Inserting Video into
PowerPoint for Windows
Inserting Video into
PowerPoint:Mac
Apple Keynote
Chapter 10: Streaming with Producer for PowerPoint
Getting Producer for
PowerPoint
Creating Your
Presentation
Publishing Your
Presentation
Final Tips
Chapter 11: Producing and Deploying Closed Captions
Preliminary Issues
Creating Your
Captioning Standard
Creating Your
Closed-Captioned Text
Converting Your Text to
Closed Captions
Creating Closed
Captions with MAGpie
Closed Captioning and
Windows Media Files
Closed Captioning and
Real Video Files
Closed Captioning and
QuickTime Files
Converting Closed
Captions to Subtitles
In the Workbook
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