Movie titles, lower thirds and video bugs are a great way to add a professional element to your videos, brand your product, and enhance the viewer’s experience through additional information. However, if not done properly, titles and graphics can have the opposite effect, resulting in your video being labeled as the work of an amateur.

Videomaker’s The Art of Titles and Graphics Webinar will help you design titles and graphics that will increase the effectiveness of your message while adding value to your production. In our webinar, we will cover purpose, design and placement, as well as mistakes to avoid. You will learn how to create great-looking titles and graphics that are clean and professional.

Following the webinar, all registrants will receive a copy of a special report. In addition to valuable information and the free special report, The Art of Title and Graphics Webinar will also include a live Q&A segment; our team answering your questions. The Art of Title and Graphics Webinar starts at 11:00 AM (PST) on Wednesday, Feb. 8, so be sure to sign up soon!

Not interested in The Art of Titles and Graphics? Videomaker’s Webinar Training Series provides a wide variety of webinars that cover topics including Advanced Editing, Documentary Production, Lighting for Video, Advanced Shooting, Audio for Video, and much more.

With the aid of green screens and special effects, even the most impossible scenarios can be a believable part of your video. Videomaker’s Green Screen and Special Effects Webinar will teach you how to make the most of green screen and special effects illusion techniques – even with a limited budget.

In addition to valuable information and a free special report, this event will also include live Q&A; our team answering your questions. Videomaker’s Green Screen and Special Effects Webinar starts at 11:00 AM (PST) on Wednesday, Jan. 25, so be sure to sign up soon!

For years, Videomaker has been offering training events to help our readers improve upon their video production skills. From expos to workshops, our training events have always focused on teaching quality courses in a manner that is easy to understand. Videomaker’s Webinar Training Series provides a wide variety of webinars that cover topics including Advanced Editing, Documentary Production, Lighting for Video, Advanced Shooting, Audio for Video, and much more.

Anyone can point a video camera at something and press record. However, creating quality videos requires an understanding of basic video production concepts. This time, Videomaker takes video production back to the basics with the newest addition to our webinar training series: Basic Video Production.

Whether you’re interested in video production for your business or interested in improving your home movies and personal projects, our comprehensive Basic Video Production webinar will teach you the techniques needed to get a jump start on making better video. You will learn basic techniques such as shot composition, camera moves and controls, microphone and audio techniques, as well as lighting setups and techniques.

Following the webinar, all registrants will receive a copy of our special report “Handheld Shooting”. In addition to valuable information and a free special report, the Basic Video Production Webinar will also include a live Q&A segment; our team answering your questions. The Basic Video Production Webinar starts at 11:00 AM (PST) on Wednesday, Jan. 11, so be sure to sign up soon!

Not interested in Basic Video Production? Videomaker’s Webinar Training Series provides a wide variety of webinars that cover topics including Advanced Editing, Documentary Production, Lighting for Video, Advanced Shooting, Audio for Video, and much more.

Have you ever had an idea for a documentary, but didn’t know where to start? Learn how to make a documentary with Videomaker’s upcoming Documentary Production Webinar. We will help you obtain the knowledge you will need to organize your documentary, tell your story effectively, and improve your chances for distribution success. With the proper techniques applied to your documentary, you can affect how the viewer perceives the issue while increasing the overall impact of your documentary.

Following the presentation, all registrants will receive a copy of our special report Mastering the Documentary Interview. In addition to valuable information and a free special report this event will also include a live Q&A segment; our team answering your questions. Videomaker’s Documentary Production Webinar starts at 11:00 AM (PST) on Wednesday, October 19th, so be sure to sign up soon!

Not interested in Documentary Production? Videomaker’s weekly Webinar Training Series is taught by our experts and features a wide variety of video production and post production topics including Advanced Shooting, Green Screen and Special Effects, Advanced Editing, Lighting for Video, and much more.

Videomaker’s Webinar Training series continues next week with an all new topic: The Art of Title and Graphics. Our live webinars are taught by our experts and feature a wide spectrum of video production and post production topics such as Green Screen and Special Effects, Advanced Editing, Advanced Shooting, and Documentary Production. Next week, Videomaker’s team is pleased to present The Art of Title and Graphics.

Great titles and graphics can add a professional element to your video production. However, if not done properly they can be the tell-tale sign of an amateur.Videomaker’s The Art of Titles and Graphics webinar will cover purpose, design and placement, as well as mistakes to avoid. You will learn how to create great-looking titles and graphics that are clean and professional.

In addition to valuable information, our The Art of Title and Graphics Webinar will also include a live Q&A segment; our team answering your questions. Next week’s The Art of Title and Graphics Webinar starts at 11:00am on Wednesday, September 15th, so be sure to sign up soon!

Recently, Videomaker completed its first-ever Basic Production Techniques webinar and we couldn’t be more pleased with the turn-out. There were so many good questions, but, unfortunately, not enough time to answer them all. Here, at Videomaker, we value every question presented and aim to answer each one of them. One question we were unable to answer within the allotted time was regarding basic tips for composing, lighting, and shooting a talking-head corporate video.

Great composition is vital to any video production. Generally, you always want to observe the rule of thirds. If you divide your frame into three equal parts, both vertically and horizontally, you’ll end up with a basic guideline for good composition. The goal here is to place your subject, or points of interest, on one of the intersections within your imaginary grid. In the case of shooting a “talking-head,” you will want to place the subjects eyes on an intersection located in the upper-third of the grid. If you can’t fit your entire subject into the frame, be sure to crop the top of the head and not the chin.

Since corporate videos are pretty straightforward, you don’t need to create an extravagant lighting scheme. A basic 3-point lighting setup – a key light, fill light, and hair light – should do the trick.

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