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Nothing screams "amateur" like shaky and jerky video. Here are some articles on how to hold and mount your camcorder so the movements are smooth and professional.

• When To Use A Camcorder Filter The super clarity of HD has image-sensitive personalities clamoring for a camcorder filter that can best smooth out their wrinkles and rough edges.
• Basic Training: Making a Better Baby Video Making an effective baby video rests very heavily upon knowing your audience. Here's a four-point strategy will keep everyone happy: Shoot, archive, edit, edit.
• Basic Training: Seeing the Rule of Thirds Some photographers and videographers have a Natural Eye that composes shots and scenes all around them, even when they aren't holding a camera. You know you have The Eye when you start composing scenes everywhere you go. Eventually you'll compose using the Rule of Thirds...
• Basic Training: 35mm Lens Adaptors for Video Why on earth would you want to put a 35mm camera lens on your video camera? It's already got a perfectly good lens on it. One word - bokeh. bokeh is a Japanese word that has no English equivalent - it means...
• Director's Chair: Back to Film School Watching films is a classroom in itself, yet you really have to have the right tools to become a critical viewer. All good directors are students of film. They devour film, looking at the way their peers chose to present the script - their shot choice, transitions, music and form.
• Videomaker Presents Recap Mixing it up with Videomaker Presents - Like the changing technology, Videomaker Presents is moving with the times, and once again we are in the design stages of creating a new look and more intensive reports. This month's collection of full shows will change…
• Family Video Help Some tips to help you enjoy the fun that you usually only experience after viewing the tapes. It's June; you know what that means: weddings, graduation, barbeques and family fun. If you're the designated Family Videographer, you can miss a lot of the fun.

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