Digital Video Solutions

Rating:
Summary: perfect for me
Review: Don't buy this thing. If you want to see how bad it is, go to the
publisher's site and read the sample chapter. It's obvious that the
author has never held a camera of any type but he still has the
courage to write about it.
Unfortunately, he often is just flat
wrong. On the very first page of that chapter he describes a pinhole
camera with a "bulging glass in the middle of the box." He
states that if you point the hole at something, light will go through
the lens and project on the other side of the box. A 10 year-old kid
knows that there is no lens inside a pinhole camera.
Another time
he says "when you 'stop down' on a camera, you are increasing the
aperture diameter. 'Stop up' means to decrease aperture
diameter." I've never heard of stopping up, but whatever you want
to call it, that statement is backwards. Stopping down, decreases the
aperture diameter. He calls depth of field "the field of
focus" and his explination of it has huge holes .
My personal
favorite is that he repeatedly refers to "video filming."
Say that around a video professional, and you'll be asked how you load
film into your video camera.(...)

Rating:
Summary: What a waste of a tree
Review: Don't buy this thing. If you want to see how bad it is, go to thepublisher's site and read the sample chapter. It's obvious that theauthor has never held a camera of any type but he still has thecourage to write about it.
Unfortunately, he often is just flatwrong. On the very first page of that chapter he describes a pinholecamera with a "bulging glass in the middle of the box." Hestates that if you point the hole at something, light will go throughthe lens and project on the other side of the box. A 10 year-old kidknows that there is no lens inside a pinhole camera.
Another timehe says "when you 'stop down' on a camera, you are increasing theaperture diameter. 'Stop up' means to decrease aperturediameter." I've never heard of stopping up, but whatever you wantto call it, that statement is backwards. Stopping down, decreases theaperture diameter. He calls depth of field "the field offocus" and his explination of it has huge holes .
My personalfavorite is that he repeatedly refers to "video filming."Say that around a video professional, and you'll be asked how you loadfilm into your video camera.(...)

Rating:
Summary: Good for Beginners
Review: I had never owned a video camera before. This book helped me see the things I could do with it. I think I'll have this book around for a long time. If anything, it tries to cover too much in few pages. Perhaps as I get good at this, I'll understand the book better.

Rating:
Summary: A great intro. to digital video
Review: I'm afraid I don't have a clever title review, but I have read the book and I thought it was a great introduction to digital video techniques. It's got easy to follow examples and some great projects - it's even got some projects that you can do with your kids, which I thought was really fun. I'd recommend this book to people I know who are just starting out in digital video - already have, in fact, to my students.

Rating:
Summary: A great intro. to digital video
Review: I'm afraid I don't have a clever title review, but I have read the book and I thought it was a great introduction to digital video techniques. It's got easy to follow examples and some great projects - it's even got some projects that you can do with your kids, which I thought was really fun. I'd recommend this book to people I know who are just starting out in digital video - already have, in fact, to my students.

Rating:
Summary: perfect for me
Review: Not sure what book the previous reviewers read, but I found Steward's book to be perfect for what I needed--a quick introduction to the subject of editing digital video. It got me up and running. A quick read with good results.

Rating:
Summary: Great Book!
Review: This book brought my camcorder to life. I'm having a great time learning how to edit my videos, and make better all the way around.

Rating:
Summary: helpful book.
Review: This book did a great job of explaining the basics and teaching me how to edit video with my new computer. I read chapter three, where the author does a good job of explaining the basics of how a camera works. And, contrary to what the previous reviewer says, he DOESN'T call it a pinhole camera at all. Not sure what that reviewer was reading. Perhaps that reviewer can cite the page on which the phrase "pinhole camera" appears. And who's Charlie White? Thanks.

Rating:
Summary: Good book
Review: This book teaches the basics of video making and editing very well. Walks you step by step through using the most common video-editing software. I found it very helpful. Previous reviewer sounds like he's grinding some unrelated axe. Somebody turn down your book proposal, tough guy?

Rating:
Summary: Book Helped Me A Lot
Review: This book turned my digital camcorder into a valuable tool. I can use it for much more than I thought. I'd recommend this book to anyone who recently bought a digital camcorder. Lots of stuff in relatively few pages.

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