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Please learn how to shoot video

One of my biggest disappointments is watching a video I was lured into by a very interesting topic, but then annoyed by serious deficiencies in content, composure and quality. Please seek and accept a few pointers. Stop zooming! You destroy the context and framing of your shot when you zoom in and out, not to mention drive your audience nuts! Be smooth! You can't walk your camera around a subject with shaky hands and swift motions without making at least a few people nauseous. Fix your audio! Cheap, crumby camcorders in the hands of competition shooters are acceptable because they get audo. Bad audio ruins video always. It's too faint, competes with background noise, it's overtaken by a music bed or otherwise muddy or shrill. You'll do better when you treat the internal camcorder microphone as a...that's right, microphone ! That usually means the camcorder has to be within a foot or two of the subject in order for it to be effective. Please by a cheap tripod