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Producing a Video Series: PreProduction - Build Your Shots

Avoid Common Mistakes in Your Video
Try not to fall into the “look at me” attitude held by many editors. While that is what your audiences will be doing, it’s not what you want your viewers to be thinking. You want to guide their thinking and sell your story and your idea.
Instead, [...]

Producing a Video Series: PreProduction - Customize Your Video

What’s the Benefit of Your Video?
When beginning to design your video, you must look at it from one point of view and that is the point of view of your potential client. You must do several things and we will cover those essentials here.
Design your video for maximum impact [...]

Producing a Video Series: Why Pre-Production is So Important

Part 1
Before you even begin to shoot your video, there is a significant amount of work that
you’ll need to do first. Since the actual shoot is called the production, this is called the
“pre-production.”
Over the past several years I have spent a fortune on books specializing in marketing,
time-management and similar topics. [...]

Why Render Animations Out as OpenEXR?

We switched to OpenEXR awhile ago (I explained why in this article in February, 2007). How has it helped us and how can it help you?
Let’s start with the “how.” Many 3D programs will render out as an EXR format. We use modo for most of our virtual set design. In [...]

How to Produce Video for the Web

&&As I wrote in my previous entry, there is a huge shift in how video is published. During the past several months, I have been using my iPhone more and more to watch videos. This is true for video podcasts, news, television shows and much more.
Reels in Motion has been producing these types [...]