Chapter 1. Project Overview

Project Overview

You can shoot and edit all kinds of movies: wedding videos, fictional stories, scripted documentaries, sporting events, or just in-the-moment scenes of babies, pets, landscapes, clouds...your only true limits are the amount of tape and the camcorder’s battery life. For this Visual QuickProject Guide, I’m creating a vacation video from a recent trip to Arizona. Nearly every task I show in this book applies to other types of movies, so don’t worry if the movie you’re editing isn’t a vacation video. Then again, if you’ve been itching to go on a vacation anyway, maybe this is a good excuse to get out there and capture your ...

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