Descriptions:

• Hundreds of color illustrations provide ideas, insipiration, and practical techniques for moviemakers, musicians, audio technicians, designers, and media students.

• Covers the entire process in one, single volume with techniques that apply to any hardware/software environment.

• Packed with tips from the pros on how to get a band or a singer to look and sound just right.

Tune up, roll the cameras, and you can create your own engaging, high-quality music video. A music video pro tells all, with straightforward, practical advice on how to make cool, entertaining, professional quality music videos. This full-color guide is filled with creative inspiration and hands-on technique, from rehearsing the band and dealing with egos, to the nitty-gritty of synching edited video and audio tracks and compressing footage for streaming on the Internet. This book unlocks the secrets of good image and audio quality, professional-level special effects, and easy distribution via DVD or the Web, enabling any ambitious moviemaker, musician or budding band manager to have a crack at creating that breakthrough promo video, the one that may just end up on MTV.