How to create a professional video from a digital camera?

michaellanfield · **Posted:** March 16th, 2009, 7:58 pm

I have a Canon digital camera, and yes I know how to create a video with my camera. My question is how to make a professional video advertisement for Ambient New World with my camera and somehow uploading it to youtube.com ?

I do have Microsoft Movie Maker, but I am stuck on exactly how to create the video and then transfer it to youtube.com

Yes I created a video before, but with great difficulty. I would like to use some kind of images with words on it and create an amazing video, like they do in flash. But how to do it? Any suggestions guys? Thanks!

Delfinoverde · **Posted:** March 17th, 2009, 3:24 pm

Too bad you're not on MAC, Michael! So in this case i can't help you 'cause i dunno nothing about Microsoft. You'll need some good additional software to edit your clips. On Mac we have iMovie - very basic software but nice. And FinalCut Studio for professional working.

For other systems i know "AVID media composer" - professional tool too.
Info here: http://www.avid.com/products/Media-Composer-Software/index.asp
Do a research on Google and you surely will find some shareware or freeware for your system.
Have a look here: http://www.softpedia.com/

Anyway, you need good knowledges to edit videoclips and sound with advanced software.
Hope this helps you

N188 · **Joined:** March 5th, 2009, 1:15 pm **Posts:** 25

suggestion:

Just shoot small scenes of animals, forests, rivers, lakes on your camera at the best quality possible (640x480 should be the minimum) without any shake (if possible), if not buy a camera and then return (if possible). Shoots scenes like 5-10 minutes each. Load them to your computer. After that, when you get 10-20 hours of footage edit the best footage into a 40min. - 1h 30min. full length movie. Then later do some research and add narration. Then last step is to add in the music where appropriate mixing the music from song to song.

michaellanfield · **Posted:** April 6th, 2009, 11:45 am

N188 wrote:

suggestion:

Just shoot small scenes of animals, forests, rivers, lakes on your camera at the best quality possible (640x480 should be the minimum) without any shake (if possible), if not buy a camera and then return (if possible). Shoots scenes like 5-10 minutes each. Load them to your computer. After that, when you get 10-20 hours of footage edit the best footage into a 40min. - 1h 30min. full length movie. Then later do some research and add narration. Then last step is to add in the music where appropriate mixing the music from song to song.

Thank you for your advise.

djdave · **Joined:** March 5th, 2009, 1:34 pm **Posts:** 10

The best way in my opinion is to gather short clips (about 2-15 minutes in length) from any camera that has resolution of at least 640x480. then transfer it to computer and use windows movie maker to blend the clips together and add the music. If you want narration you have to include that with the music before adding it to the clips in Movie maker.

michaellanfield · **Posted:** May 6th, 2009, 10:52 am

I think I will just make some clips of nature and then just add music, without narration, then later when I get more experience then I will create professional videos with narration. But to get good nature clips is still a hard task.

Delfinoverde · **Posted:** May 6th, 2009, 5:47 pm

Hello Michael!

Have a look at the wonderful clips of Diatonis - most show nature sceneries - very professional made and great music within. I follow Diatonis since quite some years, he's now around the 70'ies of age and still producing excellent works.

http://www.diatonis.com/video.html

Cheers friend

michaellanfield · **Posted:** May 6th, 2009, 5:59 pm

Delfinoverde wrote:

Hello Michael!

Have a look at the wonderful clips of Diatonis - most show nature sceneries - very professional made and great music within. I follow Diatonis since quite some years, he's now around the 70'ies of age and still producing excellent works.

http://www.diatonis.com/video.html

Cheers friend

Great ideas and great videos. Thanks!

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