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Tips for shooting holiday videos and tell holiday stories

Here are some tips about capturing video and combining your videos with photos and background music. I hope this will inspire you to shoot your own Christmas video and use to tell your holiday stories of Christmas. At this Christmas, let others feel your happiness and get bliss by videos.


Shooting Professional Videos


• Get all things ready
  • Before leaving - Check out the list and make sure your batteries are charged. These accessories are indispensable: tripod, carrying case, wide-angle adapter, head-cleaning tape.
  • Accessories needed to import video into computer - lines connect camera to computer, in some cases video capture card installed on computer.
  • Background music for holiday video - One or two suitable music will make your holiday video more enjoyable.

• 10 Tips for Holiday Video Shooting

  • 1. To extend the life of your battery, avoid playing back recently shot video.
  • 2. Smooth camera movement and if possible use a tripod.
  • 3. Use manual focus if your camcorder has it.
    4. Set the Scene. Take a few set-up shots of an event before you record the video.
    5. Talk to people in your holiday video and record the right moment.
    6. Keep the shot steady (no zoom or pan) for at least 10 seconds.
    7. Keep your average shot length between 5 and 10 seconds.
    8. Move the camcorder only when necessary.
    9. Involve yourself in holiday video. It's excited to celebrating the holiday with your friends and family. But it's most important that you should be there.
  • 10. Edit your holiday video with software. Chances are that you record videos of a long time. However, only part of them could be composed into a real holiday home video. Edit them and select the best clip to celebrating your holiday.

Do More with Holiday Shoots

• Share Holiday Love Story on YouTube

     

    Sample Tips:

    1. Download touched love story from YouTube and imported into DVD Slideshow Builder.

    2. Random transition effects are auto applied to photos while importing photos.

    3. Two subtitles are available in Wondershare DVD Slideshow Builder, which means you can add two subtitles with different animated effect at the same time.

     

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• Holiday Video Greeting Ecard

     

    Sample Tips:

    1. Download festive video from YouTube and imported into DVD Slideshow Builder.

    2. Randomize motion (Ken-Burns) effects to all photos and change some of them to what you like.

    3. Transition effects will be auto and randomly applied while importing photos.

    4. Subtitles could contain 3 actions: Entrance, Emphasis and Exit, each of which could have one type of effect. Select each action from the drop-down list and then specify one effect in Add Subtitle dialog box.

     

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• Holiday Video Gift DVD

     

    Sample Tips:

    1. Random transition effects are auto applied while importing photos. But you can change them by double-clicking the thumbnail between every two slides.

    2. Some transition effects, say "Slide", have the option of "Rotation" in Transition Effect dialog. By this option, you can decide from which direction the effect will take place.

    3. Like "Rotation" option of Transition Effect, while you are adding subtitle, there is similar option "Direction", which controls the subtitle to take action from left, bottom, right or top side.

     

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