Its easy when Jamie-B from Total Recall Films takes an in depth look at filming & editing techniques you can easily use straight away to make your next film look & feel professional using a well known technique called Tricking the camera (and the viewer). I’ll show you from raw footage all the way through to finished product what to look for when you are filming and simple techniques on how to turn your raw footage into gold when you are editing. I am using Final Cut Pro 6 but the techniques are simple enough to use with any half decent editing program.

When someone talks about wanting to “chyron” something in a final cut pro project, what do they mean?

Already discovered that I can’t use Windows Movie Maker with the format that the video is captured with on the Sony Handycam, unless I go thru a very lengthy and bulky conversion procedure that I don’t have time for. Would like to know if anyone else owns a Sony Handycam camcorder (particularly a DCR-SR45 model) and what digital video editing program they use to create movies with audio, transitions, effects, etc.

Im just starting out in photography and have a Nikon D80. What is the best software to start with when editing the images?

im looking to buy an apple laptop with final cut pro mostly to use for video editing. what would be the best to use? would a Macbook laptop which includes 2.1GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1GB memory, Combo drive and 120GB hard drive be good anough? (HD footage also)

When we got the camcorder we lost the software. My wife is pregnant and I need to have this. Thanks.

I recently got a sony camcorder and would like to edit the video.I was wondering if anyone has had any luck using a Pinnacle editing program?.Thanks for any help you might have.

I want to know if you can get sony vegas free with a sony camcorder. Like you get it with the camera or anything along those lines.

I am in a dead-end job and WANT to start my own video editing business. I use Final Cut Pro as my software and am pretty good at it but would like to get more efficient. Any ideas where I might get experience or more education so I can start out on my own and leave my current job? Anyone familiar with this software or have any tips for me?

Using the range selection tool in Final Cut Pro 5 is an essentialpart of the video editing process, get a tutorial in this free video. Expert: CJ South Bio: CJ South has been a Professional Editor, based out of Detroit, for Over 5 years. His resumé includes everything from commercial work to feature films. Filmmaker: Christopher South