Category Archives: video

Record Video with Your Mac Using the FaceTime HD Camera

We are all familiar with recording with our smartphones but you can also record using your Mac. This might be more convenient as you don’t have to prop the camera up as the FaceTime HD camera on your Mac is … Continue reading

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What is a gimbal?

What is gimbal? It is a great device for vlogging or for capturing video with your smartphone keeping it nice and steady. Continue reading

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The ATEM Mini Could Change the Way You Teach Online

This past year the classroom has moved online and this can be a useful way to teach. It is not the only way and as we return to normality online teaching still has its place. In fact I have been … Continue reading

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Editing with Green Screen Using iMovie

If you are a Mac user then iMovie is a great and free editing program. It even allows you to do green screen which used to be notoriously fiddly, in fact it still can be. So you know that filming … Continue reading

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The Trick to Getting a Good Result When Using a Teleprompter

How many of you have had to come to grips with filming from home over the past year? It seems it has been many. Once you come to grips with that you’ve then realised it would be nice to have … Continue reading

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Why Use a Canon Camera as a Webcam Using the EOS Webcam Utility

Many of you have been using Zoom, Skype, MS Teams and other apps for keeping in touch and also for teaching and demonstrating during the lockdown. And I think many of you will keep doing this when everything returns to … Continue reading

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Increasing Your Audience On YouTube

If you are adding videos to YouTube you probably want to grow your audience either because you have something you enjoy sharing, want to grow your business or perhaps become an influencer. Whatever the reason you want more views. Having … Continue reading

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Getting Started with iMovie

Get started with video editing using iMovie. Continue reading

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Using Vimeo to Review Edits

Video editing sometimes involves a lot of back and forth with fine tuning the edits. Your client often wants to change things either moving things around or taking bits out. They go through the edit noting down timecode which doesn’t … Continue reading

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Looping a YouTube Video

Do you have a video that you want to loop indefinitely and you’ve uploaded it to YouTube, or perhaps it is a video that you’ve found you want to play repeatedly. It’s really easy, all you have to do it … Continue reading

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