Digital Video Books

Marketing with Digital Video is a comprehensive book, almost like a textbook. It covers everything from scripting and pre-production to shooting and editing. Author, Hal Landen discusses the myriad ways video can be applied for businesses and non-profits. The book focuses on using video for marketing, and it is aimed at readers who either work for an organization that plans to hire a video production company, or entry-level videographers who want to produce video for businesses.

Landen suggests that you study commercials to learn how visuals are carefully crafted to tell a story in 30 seconds. He discusses the elements that make up commercials and business videos such as the types of shots, using graphics and transitions and incorporating narration, music and sound effects.

Using real world examples, Landen covers everything from location scouting to hiring actors to choosing the best clothing and makeup for the camera. He shows examples of such production concepts as composition and continuity, and he discusses different camera angles, lighting techniques and tips for recording clear audio.

Several chapters are devoted to editing and post production, and other chapters cover cable TV distribution, producing infomercials and using the web to market videos. The appendix is a resource unto itself with a glossary of video terms, lists of media associations, stock footage sources and a list of other books and training materials to further your study of video production.

This book does not cover event videography or documentary video production. It also does not get into producing video for the web. The video industry moves so fast that this 2005 publication of this book does not include high-definition video nor does it include Flash video. These are minor flaws in an otherwise concise and well written book that would work well as a college textbook or a reference guide for video producers who want to produce videos for business marketing.

There are many books on videos, many on marketing, this one is written for readers who want to do both - market with video.

It takes you step by step and explains the equipment, techniques - scripting, shooting, editing concepts in a warm and friendly way. If you want to see excerpts, go to the author's web site: www.videouniversity.com, and you can see excerpts from each chapter in the book.

The book has also been completely revised in 2005. I get so frustrated reading video how to books that are still talking about VHS tapes. This one knows about mini-DV recorders and DVDs. Hurray! I definitely recommend this book if you are trying to market your business using a video.

It is beyond the scope of this book, however, if you are trying to market your business using a video, you should get a book as well on how to stream your video on the internet because that's how business marketing videos are being viewed these days.

I own "Vegas 5 Editing Workshop," have read through "Instant Vegas," and spend a lot of time on several Vegas and DV online forums, and this book is the best resource I have found for the Vegas newbie looking to edit video (if your main use of Vegas is for audio, you might prefer "Vegas Editing Workshop").

This book is like the Adobe "Classroom in a Book" series. Each chapter presents you with a new set of Vegas tools, an explanation of how they work and what you might do with them, then gives you a few "real world" hypothetical situations to work on with your new tools. The chapters end with an explanation of how you should have attacked the problem, step by step.

Well written and polished. The best Vegas book out there for the beginner.

I have Vegas 4.0 Editing Workshop(Class on Demand) and Vegas 5 Update(Class on Demand) along with the Naked Vegas 5 book and the book is better than both DVD sets. The Vegas 4.0 Editing Workshop is good quality but it just keeps going on and on, and the Vegas 5 Update is just terrible. If you want to learn Vegas 5.0 and you enjoy doing that by completing Labs then this book is the book for you. This book will teach you almost all you need to know about Vegas, then you should go to the various Vegas forums to pick up the advanced features of the best Video Editing software out there for all people.

A must have for Financial Officers.

The definitive exec briefing for channel delivery directors.An essential read.

I am learning so much! Very informative. Not only do they "show and tell" when it comes to features on the camera, but they also give great photography tips based on what the features do. Highly recommended.

If you own or plan to buy the Nikon D80, spend the little extra money to understand all this wonderful camera has to offer.. This DVD covers everything from putting in the battery to taking shots like a Pro. Then, they also give you a website to visit to print out the full reference sheet. So you will know what subject is what disc and what chapter. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED !! VERY INFORMATIVE !! WONDERFUL PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS !! Nikon D80 Made Easy (Tutorial DVD)

This book is a must have for any graphic artist. It's beautifully executed with tons of examples to garner inspiration from. Worth every penny.

I love this book. The templates are amazing, but easy enough to alter into your own design. Sometimes as a student you need a starting point. My last project turned out amazing and I believe I'll use this book as a reference for along time. I am even interested in other books by this author and Rotovision Publishing. The pictures are great and the design on the packaging a lone is worth it. This book is one of my best if not the best design books I have and more affordable. I honestly would have paid more for this book. My classmates are also looking into buying this book after they viewed my copy. I believe this is a must in a design students library. It gives you inspiration and shows you what good package design is, believe me there are some terrible books out there.

This book was a good overview of equine photography. I am an intermediate photographer with moderate horse knowledge. It was easy to understand and implement - even with my lower level skills. The pictures in the book were amazing! Most of the book covered photography, but the video part was very informative and simple to understand. I would definitely recommend this book if you are going to photograph or video horses even just for fun.

I am a fairly experienced photographer who has recently taken up horse show photography. I found this book very, very helpful--especially the sections on the particular phase of each gait which will result in the best photo. I purchased this and Lesli Groves' book, and found them to compliment each other--but if I could only buy one, it would be this one. Specifically, the 'troubleshooting' and 'planning the perfect shot' chapters are excellent; I am equally enthusiastic about the chapters he on computers, printers, and paper. The examples clearly explain the text. I learned a lot from this book, and my first photo practice session showed a significant improvement in my work.

Since I cut my teeth on Microsoft, this Linux CBT was exactly the
kind of training I was looking for. Although I've had some very minor
exposure to linux, I am absolutely a newbie. This CBT allowed me to
pop the cd into my WindowsXP machine and use videoclips, audioclips and
multimedia demonstrations to get a jumpstart on the Linux learning curve.
Right off the bat there are step-by-step instructions/demos for
the Red Hat 7.x install. Then you get a walk through of the various parts

of the GNOME and KDE desktop. The CBT book and course line seem to follow
along the RHCE exam guide but I haven't gotten that far.
There is a min. req. to use a Netscape browser but I used IE6
without a problem.
I was really impressed with how the author brought his real world
experience to the training. In the case of printing, the author feels
strongly in using the CUPS configuration even though this not out-of-the-box
Red Hat.
I could tell he is very concerned about security and wants to make
sure you are too. Passwords info, account management and good admin practices
are sprinkled through the training.
For newbies like me Linux can be intimidating. With this CBT you can
just re-run modules until you feel comfortable with a section.
I give this training very high marks for content, presentation and
ease of use. I'd recommend it to any new Linux user.

Since I cut my teeth on Microsoft, this Linux CBT was exactly the
kind of training I was looking for. Although I've had some very minor
exposure to linux, I am absolutely a newbie. This CBT allowed me to
pop the cd into my WindowsXP machine and use videoclips, audioclips and
multimedia demonstrations to get a jumpstart on the Linux learning curve.
Right off the bat there are step-by-step instructions/demos for
the Red Hat 7.x install. Then you get a walk through of the various parts

of the GNOME and KDE desktop. The CBT book and course line seem to follow
along the RHCE exam guide but I haven't gotten that far.
There is a min. req. to use a Netscape browser but I used IE6
without a problem.
I was really impressed with how the author brought his real world
experience to the training. In the case of printing, the author feels
strongly in using the CUPS configuration even though this not out-of-the-box
Red Hat.
I could tell he is very concerned about security and wants to make
sure you are too. Passwords info, account management and good admin practices
are sprinkled through the training.
For newbies like me Linux can be intimidating. With this CBT you can
just re-run modules until you feel comfortable with a section.
I give this training very high marks for content, presentation and
ease of use. I'd recommend it to any new Linux user.

Then this is the book for you. I've made 8 shorts now...and I wish I had this book 2 years ago! I've bought dozens of books over the last 3 years but this is the first one that's been wrote by real filmakers. How do I know? There are REAL tips in it. I mean those ones that come from really making a film...not the same moron advice that everyone gives.

There's a real good case study too. It reminds me of my first video shoot for 'The Clan'. There's real good focus in there, but I think they could go further with putting things together.

Buy this book if you're an editor or a director. Definitely if you're a director! I started out editing and some of the directors I worked with could really do with reading this book ;o)

For some reason the British have the best graphics magazines...always the best reviews and tutorials. Thus it is no surprise that the book, Revolutionary - Final Cut Pro 2 by Blissett et al, is such a fine book. About the first third of the book deals with planning a production, actually shooting the footage, and preparing the footage for editing. All of these discussions are accompanied by examples and real world comments.
The rest of the book deals with Final Cut Pro 2 (FCP2) in a logical progression from clip capture to editing, then on to special effects and concluding with sound. Throughout the discussions are examples to work along with as well as a continuing project called "yootclub."
This book gives an excellent introduction to video production, in general, and FCP2 in particular.

I was particularly moved and impressed with the freshness of the images. They definitiely lend themselves to contemplative viewing over significant periods of time. Enjoyed Suite Two the most, The Horse in the Wild series. So much in each image. Highly recommended!

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I've been a huge fan of Sparth's work for years and have awaited the arrival of this book for almost as long. Sparth's work is warm and highly creative and his influence over a generation of digital fantasy artists is only beginning to be seen as his style is frequently imitated. It's certainly a great book and a must-own, especially for a concept art book at this price.

My only disappointment is is the format size (which is why I still give this 5 stars, as I don't think this is the fault of the artist). These works deserve a much larger format than the medium/smallish 9 x 9 inches. Also, and this probably has more to do with who owns the image licenses than anything, there is a bit of "sameness", a slight lack of variety, about some of the work that's not apparent when viewing his website.

Still, a great book by any standard and an essential addition to any fantasy/sci-fi/art lover's book collection.

Sparth brings a humanity to concept art and design. At this price, everyone interested in Movie and Games production should have this densely creative book in their library. The french designers are poignantly different from american designers, a gap which I appreciate and honor.

The work shown in this volume is mostly painted environments and vehicles. A couple pages of charcoal sketches and some plein-air digital work. It also has a good amount of robots and characters.