Family Videos: How to Create Great Home Videos

You'll discover everything you need to create amazing home videos that capture life's precious moments beautifully. Our expert guides cover all the essentials from choosing equipment and planning shoots to filming techniques and editing tips that bring your stories to life. Family Videos is here to help.

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Storing Videos to DVD and Your Computer

It’s likely that at some point you’ll want to get your home video files from your camcorder and onto a DVD from which you can make copies and give to fri...

Advanced Editing for Your Home Video

Once you are familiar with the basic skills needed to edit your home video you may wish to make your videos look even more professional by using more advance...

Shooting Video Outside

Filming outdoors is something all keen amateur video makers are going to want to try at some point. It could be your holiday or a child’s sporting event, b...

Basic Lighting for Your Video

There are many different tips and techniques you can adopt to light your home video recording effectively, but at a basic level when you are filming indoors,...

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Adding Text and Credits to Your Films

The first step in creating any home video is the filming itself. Deciding on a subject, taking the footage and then (if you are using a digital camera) trans...

Questionnaire: Digital or Traditional Video Camera?

The advent of digital videography has been of major benefit to filmmakers of every level of expertise, from first-time amateurs to hardened professionals. Th...

How Do I Download Footage to My Laptop?

Video footage is of limited use unless you can get it off your camera and onto your computer. From there you can transfer it to DVD or another medium in orde...

A Quick Guide to Burning DVDs of Your Home Videos

Until relatively recently, DVD writers were the preserve of professional filmmakers and digital media creatives; high costs and a limited choice meant that m...

A Quick Guide to Recording Sound in Your Home Videos

Sound is one of the most important aspects of home videos. It is difficult to hold a viewer’s attention without a soundtrack, regardless of whether that is...

A Quick Guide to Steady Camera Techniques

Amongst the most difficult challenges facing videographers, regardless of their experience or talent, is that of simply keeping the camera steady. This is cl...

A Quick Guide to Digital Video Capture

Amongst the great joys of digital video is the ease with which footage can be transferred, archived, edited and distributed. In contrast with traditional, an...

A Quick Guide to Lighting Your Home Videos

Lighting is one of the most important elements of home video, but also one of the most difficult. Inevitably, most home videos are shot in the home – not i...

Cataloguing Your Digital Footage

As your interest in home video develops, you will undoubtedly begin to amass a significant amount of footage. Like anything, it can be difficult to store all...

How to Format a Screenplay

When writing a screenplay for film or video, you may eventually want to pitch this to film production companies. Alternatively, even if you’re simply makin...

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