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The Low Budget Video Bible: The Essential Do-It-Yourself Guide to Making Top Notch Video on a Shoestring Budget
The Low Budget Video Bible is the essential do-it-yourself guide to creating top-notch video on a shoestring budget. Explore the fascinating world of camcorder video -- learn how to shoot and edit your own original video movies on a low budget. This book answers all the questions they don't cover in the instruction manuals... Which videocassete format should you use? How do the best consumer formats -- MiniDV, Hi8, and Super-VHS -- stack up against professional formats? What are the differences between camcorders? Editing VCRs? How can you achieve accurate editing? How are RC, SMPTE, and VITC time code used? What about MiniDV time code? When does non-linear editing help save money? Understand video terminology and jargon. Hi-tech comeds down to earht in this practical guide to using camcorders and editing equipment. Get maximum performance at minimum cost. Ideal for students, hobbyists, artists, and semi-pro producers.
383 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 1995
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June 26, 2020The Low Budget Video Bible by Cliff Roth is a how-to guidebook that I've been meaning to read for a long time. I was recommended the book by my once-supervisor, John, who said it was a really useful read.
I’ve been slowly flipping through this one for a few months, picking chapters that sounded interesting at the time. Roth has divided this book up into a number of categories, though each is pretty exhaustive. Perhaps too much so sometimes. The book is also dated in some ways, which mostly effects the editing/tape sections.
Despite being published 20 years ago, there are still a lot of valuable tidbits and tricks in this book for video and photography. The basics are covered in easy to understand sections and the more complicated ideas are illustrated with pictures and diagrams. He does a convenient breakdown of equipment purchase vs. create/borrow/rent based on a neverending list of possible budgets. The most practical pages in here for my work are the illustrations about lighting-- images I will likely try to recreate with a model that isn't in a Glamorshots studio. This book is thick. I would never ever recommend it to youth, as it feels more like a textbook from 1990 (actually ,it is) more than something as fun and dynamic as media. However, reading it myself has given me valuable insight into better ways to explain certain concepts, as well as how to better apply, and teach other youth to apply, skills in media. I plan on working at my site in the future (fingers crossed!) and having some ideas on ways to fashion cheap tripods, cranes, and massive panning slides out of everyday junk will be really helpful when my youth come and ask how they can get certain shots on the cheap.
I’ve been slowly flipping through this one for a few months, picking chapters that sounded interesting at the time. Roth has divided this book up into a number of categories, though each is pretty exhaustive. Perhaps too much so sometimes. The book is also dated in some ways, which mostly effects the editing/tape sections.
Despite being published 20 years ago, there are still a lot of valuable tidbits and tricks in this book for video and photography. The basics are covered in easy to understand sections and the more complicated ideas are illustrated with pictures and diagrams. He does a convenient breakdown of equipment purchase vs. create/borrow/rent based on a neverending list of possible budgets. The most practical pages in here for my work are the illustrations about lighting-- images I will likely try to recreate with a model that isn't in a Glamorshots studio. This book is thick. I would never ever recommend it to youth, as it feels more like a textbook from 1990 (actually ,it is) more than something as fun and dynamic as media. However, reading it myself has given me valuable insight into better ways to explain certain concepts, as well as how to better apply, and teach other youth to apply, skills in media. I plan on working at my site in the future (fingers crossed!) and having some ideas on ways to fashion cheap tripods, cranes, and massive panning slides out of everyday junk will be really helpful when my youth come and ask how they can get certain shots on the cheap.
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