September 29, 2010
Video Making Advice
9 Tips to Capturing Great Video
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9 Tips to Capturing Great Video
Filed by Nancy Van House at 9:03 am under Video
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Bolt|Peters study of iPad vs iPhone
Bolt|Peters Best Buy Mobile UX Research
Bolt| Peters videos, many! On Vimeo. Not all are videos of them following people around — some are their live remote web research, such as this one.
Google asks people: What is a browser?
Nielsen explains iPad failings — showing iPad functions in short video.
This site includes videos OF and ABOUT usability: 10 Must-See Usability Videos
Example of a video of paper prototyping — note also the initial setup where they use still images to take you into the test site. Paper Prototype usability test by Corel Corporation
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Updated 10/15/10
See also video making advice.
Photoshop family:
Mac Preview function: to my surprise, has pretty good editing tools.
iPhoto, of course
With Flickr.com, Facebook, Picasa, or from your own computer: Piknik
Image resolution needed: 300 dpi for printing, 72 dpi for computer screen
Handholding the camera: most people can handhold no slower than 1/60th second. Some can go down to 1/30th. Safest is 1/125th or above. (If the shutter speed is too slow, camerashake will make the picture blurry.)
Rule of thirds: composition is more attractive if key elements are not centered, but 1/3 of the way from an edge.
When there are people in the picture, focus on their eyes. That’s the part of the picture that people most care about.
When there are people in the picture, expose for their faces. Ditto.
Size of image: despite the current discussion about how megapixels don’t matter, that’s only when you get to large numbers. Larger image files = more pixels = you can crop and still have a good image.
Never ever ever use digital zoom, only optical. Digital zoom just makes the pixels bigger. (Most p&s cameras will do optical zoom up to a point, then zoom further with digital. Turn off the digital.)
(last updated 4/15/10 — needs to be verified and updated. Let me know if you find broken links.)
Advice for point-and-shoot camera users:
Editing (adjusting the image):
The latest list comes from photography superstore, Adorama, which announced the winners of its first annual APPOS – iPhone App Awards for Photography today. What stands out about this top photo app list is that the winners were chosen from apps that avid iPhone photographers actually use. You see, Adorama also ran an iPhone photography contest that drew over 17,000 image submissions. A panel of judges then selected the top 10 iPhone apps from among the apps that were most frequently used to create the 17,000 images. The six judges included acclaimed photographers, journalists, photojournalists, and oddly, sports radio show hosts.
Free (and pretty good) audio editing software: Audacity Mac and Windows
Recording phone calls using Google Voice — the major limitations: they have to call you, doesn’t work when you call them.
iPhoto
http://soundslides.com/ — pretty good. Windows and Mac. Free demo. $40 basic; $70 pro.
Added 10/14/10 Free and Open-source Vertov:
As of 10/15/10 the current version of Vertov is not compatible with the current version of Zotero.
Vertov is a free media annotating plugin for Zotero, an innovative,
easy-to-use, and infinitely extendable research tool. Both are Firefox
extensions. Vertov allows you to cut video and audio files into clips,
annotate the clips, and integrate your annotations with other research
sources and notes stored in Zotero.
http://digitalhistory.concordia.ca/vertov/
iMovie
Jaycut – see Lifehacker description. Web, free.
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