Make Better Video for YouTube
Welcome to Videomaker! Below are our favorite tips and techniques selected from the past 20 years of the magazine. Use these articles and resources to help transform your creative idea into a professional looking, polished video that will get you noticed on YouTube.
Making Better Video for YouTube
Uploading, formats, compression and downloads
TIPS & TRICKS: How to Shoot Online Video- Step By Step. Everybody's jumping on the YouTube bandwagon, from cats and kids to vacation travelers and pros. It's fun and it's easy. Here are some quick tips to getting started.
- Video Compression for Youtube. A Step-by-Step Guide
Camcorder Techniques
The Fundamentals of Cinematography
- The 9 Classic Camera Moves. Camera moves can make your project look super professional or incredibly amateurish depending on how well you use them.
- Five tips for Creative Camcorder Techniques. Don't just point and shoot. Add interest to your shots with these creative camera ideas.
Video Editing
Putting it all Together
Tips & Tricks: Chromakey- The Kindest Cut of All. In the beginning, there was the cut. The usual editing conventions dictate that most of your transitions should be cuts. Let's step away from the transitions palette for a while.
- Aesthetics of Editing. Editing is an important part of making video. But the best edits are those that the audience doesn't even notice.
Pre-Production
Planning tools to save time, money and aggravation
TIPS & TRICKS: How to Select a tripod, microphone and camera for web video production. 
TIPS & TRICKS: Greenscreen Planning- Part 1 of Production Planning. Meticulous planning will enable you to shoot the program you developed and then edit the show you shot.
- Part 2 of Production Planning. Part 2 of a 3 part series on movie and video production planning.
Video Production Techniques
Tricks of the trade-Lighting/Audio
Tips and Tricks: Lighting Basics - Three Point Lighting- Do the Light Thing. An informational buyer's guide helping you choose and use the best type of lighting for your productions
- Matchmaker. The audio world is full of connectors. Big, small, short and long, these essential items have vexed video producers for years.
Tips & Tricks Videos
Discover powerful new production techniques
Tips & Tricks: Ghostly Special Effects
Tips & Tricks: Natural Transitions
Tips & Tricks: Sped-Up Background Effect
Tips & Tricks: Earthquake FX
Tips & Tricks: The 180 degree rule