Video School / Do It Yourself
Lessons
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Black and White BackgroundsSolid color backgrounds, typically white or black, can help give your video a nice polished presentation. Learn the basics of achieving this sleek look.
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Do-It-Yourself Follow Focus
A follow focus let's you get that smooth in and out of focus look you see in movies. Learn how to make one for less than the price of a good sandwich.
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Weekend Challenge: Kid DirectorThis week we're challenging you to put a kid in the director's seat to make a video where a child is the main creative force behind the production.
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Weekend Challenge: Seasons Past FeaturedSummer is over for us Northern Hemispherians; what have you been up to?
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Creator Q&A: Catch a snowflake on your camera, not your tonguePhysics major and time-lapse master Vyacheslav Ivanov mesmerized us with his video of magically forming snowflakes. We asked him to reveal his snowy secrets.
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Drive-by Shooting: Using Your Car to Make Better Videos FeaturedA lesson about the most amazing piece of film equipment that you may have never thought to use, despite interacting with it on a daily basis: a car.
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Monopod Mania FeaturedMonopods, they aren't the jealous cousins of their more multi-limbed cousins, tripods. No, they are a force of camera stabilization to reckon with and can help take your shooting to another level. Learn how to use one along with some other cool tricks in this lesson.
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Weekend Challenge: Short and SpookyThis weekend, give someone goosebumps in under a minute. If you've got it, haunt it.
Tutorial Videos
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DIY Cam SliderThis tutorial offers a cheap and and easy way of making a DIY cam slider that is tripod mounted. Total build cost around 20 dollars US. It is by no means perfect and it does not give…
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LCD viewfinder tutorialI have had this idea for a while, but procrastination put it off.
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Light Camera Slider - BuildMy next project was to build a camera slider. I wanted to make the design as simple as possible as I felt other designs were too complicated with 8 or more wheels. I wanted to use ball…
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Jay Boy's No Budget Tutorials 03: DIY Filming Dolly With 10' TrackI've seen tons of plans for these things. Here's mine! This project can be done for under $100 (if you don't screw it up like I did). The audio is horrid, I know. Don't…
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Rubber Band TipVimeo "Quick Tüts" weekend project
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DIY Camera Stabilizer - BodyPodThe Above video shows some information about how I modified a cheap Targus Monopod into a very lightweight portable DIY Camera Stabilizer for my 5D Mark II and 7D to shoot video. This…
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How to Make Easy Cardboard Frames in just a few MinutesRe-use all those cardboard boxes around your pad by turning them into spiffy cardboard frames. Easier than you think, and a great way to save waste! (We'll even show you how to…
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