How To Film A TV With A Digital Camera
OK, this is how it’s done. No more excuses like bad camera angles and bad coloring for you now! If you set it up right, ANY camera can film a TV with decent quality… Heck, any camera can make good video or pictures if you know how to set it up right… unless of course it’s a camera that is so horrible like a cheapo webcam or something. There are problem scenes you will encounter with your camera such as ones that are very dark with only a few visible spots on it… those spots will glow brightly with a blast of light making it impossible to see… If you can “manually” set the camera’s white balance for each of those scenes as you go, you’ll be just fine. But, that’s a more complex issue that stems down to each camera as the steps required to set the white balance manually (but beware as some cameras you can’t set a manual white balance!) vary from camera to camera. See it’s instruction booklet for more info and experiment yourself. This video is only a guide, but you have to take your own path in finding the best camera quality you can get with what you have. Also remember you are filming a light source… The camera will want to compensate for it and you will have to tweak it’s settings accordingly or just edit accordingly as you would with any video you make (That is, if you want to make good videos). I brighten up certain scenes in Windows Movie Maker to correct the coloring as I need to. I also trim clips and combine them into the same video to there’s less gaps …
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You’re welcome! Ha ha!
PkGam no relly thx
LOVE….the Pokémon poster
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that’s what I used to do until I got a awesome stand that’s universal. (for those of you who don’t know that means all cameras)
You have the same TV as me! Good TV, no?
My tripod (stand) is universal. it’s got a universal screw on the top of it which clips on and off that stand for convenience.
Indeed.
lol Thanks!
Really, you are welcome.
Great Tutorial.
Thanks!
Well… Mine is much taller!!! Take that!
@PkGam Yeah I actually got 2 because my first one burnt out (due to the fact that I had it on all night a lot). I have learned my lesson though.
Mine can grip around tree limbs, railings and hang the camera off a sideways surface, lol!
Thanks! I’m glad it could!
Thank you for the Tutorial, It helped me allot!!!!
lol (it worked!)
Awesome Tutorial! It really helped!
I always fall asleep with the TV on, so I put the sleep timer on it, ha ha!
But having it on too much shouldn’t break it… I mean you should be abel to use it as much as you want. Otherwise it would be listed in the instruction book.
… curse you to a life of lots o’ laugh then!!
@mrdave230 XD nvm
i guess i wasnt paying attention until i realized you had one
@mrdave230 Not before, ha ha! But if the camera can sit up, the boxes work nicely.
Low budget movies FTW! lol!
@Poppopj2 You’re welcome!
XD ” I used a chair with a box ontop of it with some games” Im guessing you didnt have a tripod