ABSTRACT
You may be coming to streaming media technology with a good understanding of how to record sound or shoot video with high-quality results. But the quirks of streaming media mean that some of the techniques you’ve learned may not work as well for the computer screen as they do for the television screen. This chapter reviews some of the fundamentals of audio and video production, and offers some tips for adapting video techniques you may already know to a streaming environment. This chapter also demonstrates how to capture audio and video to a hard disk, and we’ll look at using Windows Movie Maker as a quick and dirty video production tool. By the end of the chapter, you’ll understand:
Best practices for recording audio
Best practices for recording video
Best practices for capturing audio and video
How to capture with Windows Media 9 Capture free software
How to edit with Windows Movie Maker
