Posted by Richard Crowley on 12/25/06 13:20

"Brian Huether" < wrote ...

> Most instructional videos I have seen show a waste up shot that shows
> enough detail of the player going through the exercises.

And how effective is that? At that distance your fingers are
only a few pixels high. I wouldn't find that very helpful.
Might as well distribut an audio CD and some nice printed
close-ups.

>Then again I haven't seen many recently. I would only do the digital
>zoom if there was enough resolution (i.e. if a normal DVD is 600x800
>(just as an example) and the camera is capturing 1200x1600 then I would
>feel pretty good about zooming).

Video resolution is frozen at 720x480. This is the same
for every video camera in NTSC-land (720x586 in the
PAL-territories). Those other numbers you are quoting
are only for still shots. This is why "zooming video" is
such a non-starter. Sorry for the bad news on Christmas.

> But I do realize that all this is easier said than done. Took me a
> while to start getting better than amateur results with my guitar
> recordings.

Are you an teacher now? Do your students have any experience
with other instructional videos?

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