Today camcorders are readily available and can be used to create videos at a quality comparable to broadcast television. The popularity of video as a means of communication is ever increasing, and with the numerous Internet sites available to showcase your footage, making a video is becoming as natural to some as writing a letter. Whether you want to produce professional-looking footage, or simply want to learn how to add interesting effects to your home videos, this book helps absolute beginners to master the basics and more. Starting with how to choose the best camcorder and dealing with how to approach shooting in a variety of situations, the book follows all the way through to putting the footage you've shot onto a computer. The final chapter looks at how to take the finished video and upload it to the Internet to sites such as YouTube, as well as how to burn it to a DVD or even play it through your mobile phone. This is an invaluable guide to creating and editing your videos! It is suitable for absolute beginners of all ages who want to understand the process of creating and editing videos at home, and those who want to produce interesting, watchable and professional-looking videos to put on their computer or share on the internet.

About the Author

Christian Darkin is a highly-experienced freelance filmmaker, writer, illustrator and animator. He has recently completed the filming of a documentary on the evolution of sharks.