Hamilton Buhl Hamilton HDV5200 Curriculum - Manual (Page 5)

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your project. Play it several times and ask others to review your footage
before you make any final decisions.
• Be sure to label your clips. This will make it easier to arrange your clips
in the proper sequence and/or make changes in the sequence.
• When adding transitions and text make sure that your clip is long
enough to contain the text and/or transition. If it is not, the text will
spill over into the next clip or the transition will not work properly.
• Transitions between clips take footage from the end of the first clip and
the beginning of the second clip. Keep your transition times short. If
your transitions are too long your footage will appear choppy.
• If you cannot get a transition to work because your clips are too short,
create still clips out of the last frame of the first clip and the first frame
of the second clip. Place the transition between the still frames. The still
frames will provide the extra footage the transition needs to work
without distorting your footage.
• You can always add a voice over or a soundtrack to your video during
the editing process.
• If your clips have different sound levels try to adjust them so that the
sound does not seem too loud at some points and too soft at others.
Presentation and Storage Tips
• When you have completed editing your video you can render your
project into a video file format that is suitable for your audience or