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The trick of making a good home movie is in the planning and editing. The shooting part is easy. The hard stuff comes before and after. Here is how to make a home movie with your camcorder. Instructions Difficulty: Moderately Challengin... More...

While camcorders are equipped with a built-in microphone to allow for sound and image to be perfectly synchronized, the built-in microphone is usually surround sensitive, so it tends to pick up surrounding sounds. In most cases there is a microphone socket on your camcorder for an additional externa... More...

Introduction Digital camcorders make shooting video and editing it on your home computer a breeze. You can create movies and output them to tape or DVD, or post them on the Web. Whether you want to record shots of your new baby or you dream of becoming a true auteur, this guide will teach you what ... More...

1. Wi-Fi G-Whiz Factor The Buzz: From the same people who brought you thecatchy moniker 802.11b--known in less techy circles as Wi-Fi--comes 802.11g,the latest speedy wireless LAN standard.Although the new spec won't get IEEE ratification until around midyear,the big networking companies are already... More...

Search With a Little Help From Your FriendsIllustration: Gordon Studer The Buzz: Yahoo's My Web 2.0 is borrowing a page from the social software movement to sharpen its search efforts. Here's how it works: You save, label ("tag"), and comment on Web pages you view, and then you share that ... More...

1. Athlon Steps Up to 64 BitsIllustration: P.J. Loughran The Buzz: Yes, Apple may have gottenthere first with the G5, but the superfast 64-bit systems on mostPC World readers' radar will be powered by AMD'supcoming Athlon 64 chip. Set for a September 23 release, the new CPU will runall the standard ... More...

Camcorders are rather like people, at least in some respects. There are tall ones, short ones, wide ones, thin ones, and ones with odd-looking lumpy bits. There are even ones that come in different colors, although (much like people) the colors don't make much difference to what's inside. And, much ... More...

I'm pleased to report that my column is generating a good amount of feedback from you, dear readers, with several people asking questions or offering comments or suggestions on subjects I have written about. This month, I'm going to address a few of these comments and suggestions. Digitizing Analog ... More...

Introduction Digital camcorders make shooting video and editing it on your home computer a breeze. You can create movies and output them to tape or DVD, or post them on the Web. Whether you want to record shots of your new baby or you dream of becoming a true auteur, this guide will teach you what ... More...

With the possible exceptions of nuclear physics and brain surgery, few topics are more jargon-filled than digital video: If you were to join in a conversation with a group of video geeks, you'd be assaulted with terms like "24p" and "HDV." Nobody likes to admit their ignorance, s... More...

A few months back, I wrote a column about copying my home movies to DVD. It generated a lot of questions from readers, so this month I'm digging through my mailbag. Here are the answers to some of the questions you asked. I've got home movies on Super 8mm film: How do I copy them to DVD? Many fami... More...

Illustration: Diego Aguirre A friend stopped by the other day to show me a video of his cross-country bicycle trip. By the time it was finished, I could have pedaled across the country myself. The poor guy didn't have a clue how to edit his footage. He's one of many digital video camera owners who ... More...

In this column, I'll be talking about the fast-developing world of digital video and audio editing. While video editing used to be a complex and time-consuming business, the increasing power of personal computers and the falling cost of digital camcorders have put movie-making tools into everyone's ... More...

Photograph: Daniel Levin Think you need $100 million and a big-name star to make a movie that lands in your local Blockbuster? Not anymore. With today's digital video technology, practically anyone with a digital video camcorder, a computer, and a story can produce and distribute a movie for next to... More...

This is the time of year when new camcorder owners abound. They're wandering around excited about their new toy, but unsure what to do with it. Here are the five guidelines that I think every new camcorder owner should follow. 1. Learn about your camcorder. Every good artisan knows and understands ... More...

Feature: Choosing a Digital Camcorder Home-movie cameras have been around for decades. My dad had a Super-8 camera that he used to make grainy, jerky, silent films when I was a little kid in the 60s. In the 80s, VHS and 8mm video cameras became popular, and I made quite a number of home videos mysel... More...

Isn't technology wonderful? Thirty years ago, your home movies would have been recorded on Super 8 film with blurry images and barely audible sound. Ten years ago, they would have been recorded on analog videotape, and editing them would involve hours of work and thousands of dollars' worth of equip... More...

If you've bought a new camcorder, you've probably spent some time scrolling through the controls, pressing buttons to see what happens. And you probably came across one particular control that you didn't recognize: white balance. You may have wondered about this one. Why would you need to balance wh... More...

Feature: Convert Analog Video to Digital When I win the lottery or finally get around to discovering cold fusion, I am going to build a high-tech house that will put both NORAD and Bill Gate's home to shame. I'll have all sorts of high-tech gadgets, like wall-sized LCD screens that show photo montag... More...

I try to take good videos, but they don't always work out the way I want. I've got loads of footage that I can't use because either the sound or the images have problems, ranging from over- or underexposure to annoying background noises that drown out the dialogue. You might have experienced such pr... More...