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Feasible Fantasy: How To Create Convincing Sci-Fi on a Low Budget

Have you ever wanted to make a sci-fi video, complete with sleek starships, strange worlds, and bug-eyed monsters, but feared it would require a...

Viewfinder: The Confusion Solution

The Confusion Solution We regularly receive letters from subscribers concerned that Videomaker is too complicated. Confused by acronyms like A/B roll, PCM audio and...

Getting Started: Shooting for the Holidays

Ah, the holiday season! The feasts and festivities, the laughter and love, the torture and torment. That's right, torment...the sheer agony of sitting through typical...

Video Kickoff: Your Guide To Shooting Sports

Sports video is more popular than ever. And why not? Today's easy-to-use camcorders make sports video a breeze for many parents. But sports video...

Cables and Connectors: They’re More Important Than You Think

They're More Important Than You Think Walk into any Radio Shack and wander through the sections for audio and video cables and connectors. Thousands of...

Curing Camera Shake: Your Guide To Image Stabilization

If your footage sometimes looks as if you taped it during an earthquake, it's not your fault. No hand-held video will be perfectly steady;...

Macro World – The Uses of the Extreme Closeup

Manufacturers load camcorders with all sorts of electronic doodads that let the user create amazing effects like slow motion, freeze frame, fades in and...

Video Gestalt

Working Towards the Perfect Fit Making the whole greater than the sum of its parts is a fundamental aspect of videomaking. Making the whole greater than...

Improve Your Self-Images

Invite friends and relatives to see your latest home movie and count on a generous outpouring of stammered feeble excuses designed to keep them...

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