Use Motion 5 to Create Animated Highlights on Text

Published July 15, 2014

When you're including text in your video, you have a lot of options for how to show it.

This video demonstrates one technique you might want to try. It works well if you have a voiceover that's reading from a letter. You can include the letter …

The Close-Up Shot in Videography and Cinematography

Published July 3, 2014

The close-up is probably the most important and most common shot in video and film. It's extremely common, and it's certainly one of the fundamental camera angles to practice.

In this video, I demonstrate several different types of close-up shots. I cover what they're called, how …

Five Random Tips for Shooting Video Outdoors

Published June 19, 2014

Shooting video outdoors is different from shooting video indoors.

The principles are still the same (video is video after all), but the tools and techniques you use can be different.

I'm going to share some random tips for shooting video outdoors here. This list …

8 Video Skills to Practice

Published June 13, 2014

When I was in elementary school, I took piano lessons. I never got very good (and eventually quit playing in 6th grade), but I learned lessons from that experience that I still use today -- even for shooting video.

For example...

Every …

Better Video, Less Equipment

Published June 9, 2014

You don't always need more equipment to capture better video.

For example, this video shows several clips where I used just a video camera and a slider.

A very basic setup... No light controls, no heavy stands and sandbags.

Not even a tripod for this one.

Sometimes you can …