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Keith Underdahl | Wiley Publishing, Inc. 3rd Edition | English language | ISBN: 0764541145 | PDF | 411 pages | 11.6 Mb

If marketing folks want to breathe new life into an existing technology, the method du jour is to tack "digital" onto the name. Today we have digital cable, digital cell phones, digital fuel injection, and now, digital video. But unlike some other technologies that have recently earned the digital prefix, digital video isn’t just a minor improvement over the old way of doing things. Digital video is a revolution that is changing the way we think about and use moving pictures.

Regular folks have had the capability to record their own video for many years now. Affordable film movie cameras have been available since the 1950s, and video cameras that record directly onto videotape have been with us for over two decades. But after you recorded some video or film with one of these old cameras, you couldn’t do much else with it. You could show your movies to friends and family in raw, unedited form, but there was no confusing your rough home movie with a professional Hollywood production.

Digital camcorders provide a slight quality improvement over older camcorders, but the real advantage of digital video is that you can now easily edit your video on a computer. I don’t have to tell you how far computer technology has progressed over the last few years, and you know that modern Macs and PCs can now do some pretty amazing things. In a matter of seconds, you can import video from your digital camcorder into your computer, cut out the scenes you don’t want, add some special effects, and then instantly send your movies to friends over the Internet - or burn them to a DVD. The capability to easily edit your own movies adds a whole new level of creativity that was - just five years ago - the exclusive realm of broadcast and movie professionals.

In a culture so accustomed to and influenced by video images, it’s actually kind of surprising that personal moviemaking hasn’t burgeoned sooner. Video is the art of our time, and now - at last - you have the power to use this art for your own expression. What will you draw on your digital-video canvas?

Why This Book?
Digital video is a big, highly technical subject, so you need a guide to help you understand and use this technology. But you don’t need a big book that is so highly technical that it just gathers dust on your bookshelf. You need easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions for the most important tasks, and you need tips and tricks to make your movies more successful. You need Digital Video For Dummies, Third Edition.


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