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DV 101 : A Hands-On Guide for Business, Government and Educators Produce and distribute better video, faster and more efficiently |
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Pinnacle Studio Workbook Jan wrote the book on Pinnacle Studio (actually two books, with one more in the works) and this 49 page workbook includes many of the nuggets picked up along the way. Here are some highlights from the respective chapters. Chapter 1: Includes a generic shot list for use when planning your shoots and storyboards for an executive briefing, a formal interview and a group discussion. The storyboards ensure the optimal camera placement and framing and remind you of the B-roll and other shots necessary to create a professional looking video.
This image is the first shot from the executive broadcast storyboard. On the left is camera placement, while the image on the right shows the framing of the executive in the camera for this opening establishing shot. You can download the complete storyboard for the executive broadcast (in PDF format) by clicking here. With only five shots, the executive briefing is the simplest of storyboards. In contrast, the interview has 15 potential shots, while the training video has eight. Chapter 2: Capturing High Quality Audio: The workbook contains embedded audio files for all microphones shown in Figure 2.3, allowing you to hear how much better a separate microphone sounds than the embedded microphone, even on the VX2000, a $3,500 camcorder in its day. You'll also be able to hear the difference between a lavaliere microphone and a shotgun microphone on the camera body. See if you can figure out which is which below.
Finally, the workbook details how to apply Studio’s noise-filtering effects. Not a highlight, however, since this particular feature has proved disappointing. Chapter 5: The workbook details all operations shown in Chapter 5, including how to get started in Studio, how to perform split edits like L-cuts and J-cuts and add logos to your videos (below).
Also included is very simple advice for optimizing the quality of still images imported into Studio; if you're working with high resolution documents with lots of detail, you'll get better results faster and easier. The workbook also includes style guides for each title type discussed in the chapter and Studio-specific instructions for editing steps 1-7 as outlined in this chapter. Chapter 6: The workbook illustrates how to apply Studio’s chromakey effect. (Pssst. You can also check out Jan's free chapter on Pinnacle Studio Plus, with the instructions for chromakey, here). Chapter 7: Demonstrates how to render in Studio. Details when and where Studio does a good job, and where results are suboptimal, with suggestions regarding which other programs to try and the optimal workflow for working with those programs. Chapter 8: Studio's authoring capabilities are relatively straightforward, but this workbook details the optimal workflow for creating menus, adding links, previewing, error checking and burning. |
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