MAKE » Tag: Video Making

Robot Puppet Party at Maker Faire

Karen Tanenbaum — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:50:54 +0000

The Hello World Program would like to invite you to a Robot Puppet Party at the Maker Faire Bay Area next month. Hello World has been running for about a year, building a library of video tutorials on a variety of open source tech topics, narrated by handmade puppets. Guido the Python teaches the Python programming language, of course, while the robot Unique ID discusses robotics, circuitry and the basics of object-oriented programming. Currently under construction is a new fox puppet who will be in charge of HTML tutorials.

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Making Movies with Kids

Stett Holbrook — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 14:00:49 +0000

Anyone who has kids will, at one time or another, point a video camera (or smartphone) at them and make a little home movie. But how about getting kids involved in making movies? Bianca Giaever doesn't have kids, but the young filmmaker has created a great short film called "The Scared is Scared," based on a story invented by a six-year-old boy named Asa. Bianca's questions and Asa's often flip-flopping, cute-as-can-be answers form the narration of the movie. Bianca takes Asa's imaginative story and brings it to life as he tells it. It's clever, funny, and poignant. She offers advice on how to go about making a movie with kids.

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How-To: Fretboard “Shredcam”

Sean Michael Ragan — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 15:41:45 +0000

Fran Blanche is a self-described "corset maker, pedal designer, engineer, artist, musician, occasional radio DJ, subpar singer, and full time goofball" from Philadelphia who has, at least in the not-too-distant past, run a bespoke guitar FX business called Frantone. So much win.

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Which Camera Should You Use For Your Maker Project?

John Baichtal — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 23:30:51 +0000

Blair Neal wrote an exhaustive Guide to Camera Types for Interactive Installations where he lays down various categories of cameras–everything from webcams to IR cameras to Kinects–and comments on their utility for different types of art installations, though I could totally see it being helpful for maker projects as well. […]

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Best of 2012: Google+ Hangouts on Air

Stett Holbrook — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 17:25:15 +0000

We dived into the world of Google+ hang outs on air this part summer with Maker Camp, six weeks of daily hangouts, live and online. If the web democraticized publishing, G+ hangouts have democratized the video broadcast. They can be as low or high production as you like. All that's required is a good ethernet connect and interesting conversation and guests and you're good to go. Since then, MAKE has explore use of the technology. What we do with hangout will continue to evolve. For now, here is our highlight reel from the year that was.

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Mic Stand Camera Mount / Steadycam / Camera Boom

Bill Olson — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 23:06:43 +0000

My wife’s cousin, the break-dancing radiologist, broke the microphone clip off my mic stand while singing karaoke last Thanksgiving. I had another micropohone clip and replaced it so we could continue with karaoke, but I decided to keep the broken pieces of the old clip for the junk box because […]

Visualist, ’70s Video Effects

Bill Olson — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 23:04:42 +0000

The starting point of this project is an easy-to-handle video false color device, sound reactive and also suitable for a DJ. The input signal can be a PAL/NTSC video camera or video player. As output device you can use a flatscreen monitor or a beamer. The Visualist has mainly analog […]

3D Movies and Photos on a Shoestring

makemagazineuser — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 22:59:58 +0000

3D video camcorders and displays are getting cheaper, but they’re still fairly expensive, and the only sub-$100 cameras that take 3D still photos all use roll film. So I thought it would be fun to mix the old with the new and see how cheaply I could build a digital […]

Green Screen w/ iMovie

makemagazineuser — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 22:57:37 +0000

This will teach you how to make a green-screen effect with iMovie, a free software package bundled with Macs. Filed under: Photography & Video

Stabilizing and Exporting w/ iMovie

makemagazineuser — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 22:57:37 +0000

Filed under: Photography & Video