Thought I might offer a few simple ideas for those who are interested in making videos of their C-Moto and putting them on Youtube for sharing.

First - Garbage in Garbage out
This is never more true than in video production. Still photographs are easy to manipulate and post process. Cropping and color correction of a still photo is a powerful way to get the most impact from an image.

Working with video does not have this luxury as the video must fill the frame to look natural. Anytime you zoom into a video to effective "crop" it, you'll loose resolution and the digitization will occur extremely fast at anything over 5-10% enlargement. For this reason, it's important to get your video captures right, the first time. Lots of things can be done to help this.

Video:

1) Take lots of video. Give yourself a few seconds at the beginning and end of each capture. This will give you more "room" to work with the clip once it's imported to your video software project.

2) Learn proper photographic composition on a still camera!!! This can NOT be over emphasized. A good video take is like a series of good still images put together over time...this is why they used to be called "motion pictures"

3) Don't be afraid to play with speeding up and slowing down clips. Slow motion can really accentuate some fine details in action while speeding up can compress long sequences into a short time and lend a sense of urgency.

Sounds:

1) Capture not only for sight, but sound. Sounds is a huge dimension to any video and should not be ignored at the least. Don't make obvious sound breaks from clip to clip - blend them if you can at transitions. Also, don't think that you HAVE to use the sound track recorded live in the capture.

Let the camera run for 5-10 minutes recording "ambient" sounds. This could be anything from trickling water, to a crowd of people, of the sound of an engine. This gives you sound material to work with in your project and be creative with it's application.

2) If you're throwing a music track in a project, don't simply stick video clips over the sound track. Listen to the music and time video transitions to breaks beats in the music. Listen to cymbals or crashes - these are great places to place video transitions.

3) The video and audio must work together! Be sure the editing software you use will show you the wave form of your sound clips. Timing a transition to a snare hit should be precise down to the millisecond. Human senses are fully capable of detecting differences in the tenth's of a second range. To get this right, being able to see the wave form is crucial

Uploading to Youtube:

This one took me a lot of experimentation to figure out. But for right now, the best format I can find is using DIVX encoder (pro version is 20USD) and set it to keep file size under 100mb (youtube's limit). No need to rezise the video to 320x240. Convert it and rename the .divx extension to .avi. Upload it to Youtube and check your quality! It's about as good as it gets!

That's it for now. Happy video-production-ing!

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