When you watch YouTube videos, can you can tell the difference between good sound and bad sound recording?  Bad sound is distracting especially when the video is a speech.
When it comes to your own video recording of a lecture,  seminar or workshop, always use an external microphone.  With a proper clip-on microphone on the presenter, you will get crisp clear …

Do you like editing videos on the go without being stuck to a desktop computer?  Laptops are becoming powerful enough for video production work.  However, there are numerous models and brands to choose from. Beware, the most expensive brand does not mean the best. When it comes to video editing, speed and memory matter. So in this post we address …

New Canon 5D Mark III Shoots Longer HD Videos
The new Canon DSLR camera records video in the widely accepted MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 format. It can shoot in 3 Frame Sizes, Full HD 1920 x 1080, good-for-web HD 1280 x 720 and almost SD 640 x 480. There is no worry about getting a PAL or NTSC model …

A VideoLane.com subscriber posed a question about making cooking videos for YouTube…
“How do you suggest I make a good decent video for YouTube – cooking segment.
Not interested in showing myself really, just the food.”
Here’s my response…
Let me make some assumptions:

You are the one cooking.
You are the one shooting.
The location is a home kitchen.
You don’t want to be seen in the …

When creating DVDs, I like to use a combination of 2 programs, Sony Vegas and Corel VideoStudio.
Sony Vegas renders DVD videos clean and sharp, especially when the footage was shot in HD.
I use Sony Vegas to edit my video footage and create the DVD-compliant MPEG2 file.
The MPEG2 file is then imported into Corel VideoStudio to create the physical disc.
Corel …