3. Gear Guide

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In this chapter, you’ll discover you can shoot a great video with $100 gear or less. You’ll be surprised to learn that if you’ve got a point-and-shoot camera and/or an iPhone or other smartphone, you can make a professional-looking video with it. Let me point out some additional tools that go hand in hand with these cameras and can take your production from so-so to great.

It’s tempting to use free video-editing programs such as Windows Movie Maker or Apple iMovie. But with them you can’t easily do multitrack video and audio—you know, ...

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