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Steve Stockman
In Tips and Tricks, Better Home Video, For Pros, Your Questions Answered

Capturing Emotion on Video

I bought your book via Amazon kindle.  I have my first wedding to shoot next week. My intention is to capture the momentum leading up to the wedding, the wedding itself, and party celebration, focusing on capturing as much emotion, people as possible. Any suggestions specifically tailored toward a wedding?

Kiran

Thanks for the legal download!  (Sure it’s flattering to be heavily torrented, but flattery only goes so far. Like not, say, to the grocery store.)

I’ve written here about shooting weddings and other human rituals.  There’s also a wedding chapter in the book— but I love your … Read the rest

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Steve Stockman
In For Pros, Your Questions Answered

Video Sound in a Loud Room

Is there a fix for trying to get decent video sound in a loud room such as a nightclub?

Some cameras have a limiter in them that clamps down on the sound levels but leave you with wimpy sound, while others are totally overwhelmed by the sound and all you get is ultra distortion.

This situation has always driven me crazy. Do I have to employ an external mike and a mixer if I hope to get acceptable sound? Are there cameras that have the fix on board?

–Denis Scherk

Our ears come with an awesome sound mixer built in– … Read the rest

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Steve Stockman
In Tips and Tricks, For Pros, Your Questions Answered

Fixing Audio Cuts

Dear Steve–

I am reading your book and have an urgent question about sound.

I’ll be taking video of an upcoming family celebration. If I follow your advice to shoot short shots, I’ll be starting and stopping the camera a lot. I understand your point that our brains make visual sense of these cut-together images, but what about the sound? When I stop and start, conversations will be cut off and the resulting audio will be a jumble.

How do I fix this?

Cesar Vargas

It’s true that when you start and stop the camera at a live event, sound … Read the rest

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Steve Stockman
In Tips and Tricks, 12 Tips to Improve Your Video NOW

Use a Microphone: 12 Tips to Keep Your Video from Sucking (#11)

The microphones on most video cameras are programmed to adjust their own sound levels: they take whatever they hear and boost it to a constant, listenable level. Unfortunately, if they hear crowd noise around you, they boost that. Traffic noise, sirens—it all gets boosted.

In fact, if the camera mic hears nothing, it boosts that too. In an interview where the subject is too far from the mic, the camera will crank up every hint of sound between you and them, creating a big, echoey overlay of room noise.

If you’re as close to your subject as you should be … Read the rest

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Steve Stockman
In Your Questions Answered

Making Your Video Sound Great

Hi Steve!

I bought your book, How to Shoot Video that Doesn’t Suck and this morning I shot my first video – a documentary of a local pancake breakfast. The finished product was 1:46 and includes 17 cuts. If I hadn’t read your book it would probably be a lot longer and much more boring!

One question I have is sound.  I was concerned that the sound from the individual clips would be discontinuous…but I overlayed some music that came with Corel Video Studio and magically it all seemed to work out really well. I don’t know if I just

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