I’m putting together a course over at http://iPhoneVideoSecrets.com and I’ll have even more tips over there.

Thank you for the excellent tutorial. It was very easy to follow and the video comparison was an awesome visual aid.

I haven’t had any drift issues myself. And since I usually make cuts anyway, I can move a track if I need to.

I keep my Canon as primary because the picture is the best. I also use the Canon as the primary audio track too. I’ll use an external mic and capture it to the Canon.

I’ve got 2 Zi8′s myself that I use for secondary cameras. I place the Zi8′s off to the sides. You’ll notice a quality difference but you can compensate by applying some filters, changing brightness, or even adjusting it to black and white for a cool effect.

And since I capture the audio from the Canon with an external mic, I have great primary audio track.

I would like to try this with my Cannon HV30 and use my Kodak zi8 and iPhone to get 3 different angles. Or I might just buy 2 additional Zi8′s if it comes out bad.

First, take a look at Ecamm Call Recorder. This $10 tool makes it easy to record both sides of your Skype video. The product itself has been well supported over the years too. It will basically record both sides of your call and create a movie with a split screen. It loads into Skype easily and even has a trial version. You can check it out at the Ecamm site. The downside for me though is that it doesn’t give me enough flexibility in my layout. Maybe I’m just being a control freak.

The second solution involves Skype and ScreenFlow. The key to make this work though is that you CAN’T have your isight video camera working in Skype (because ScreenFlow is going to use it) and therefore the other person can’t see you. They can show their camera and with ScreenFlow, you’ll be recording it. But the key here is that you’ll record your video with ScreenFlow. This means that your video is in a separate ScreenFlow track. And this is good. Now you can move your Skype speakers video around the screen separately from your video captured with ScreenFlow. You can fade your video out, move their video to one side, and then overlay text and graphics that compliment what they’re saying.

And while you might think it’s a downside that the other person can’t see you speaking, it’s really an advantage. That’s because most of the speakers will want to look at your video instead of looking directly into their webcam. When they can’t see you, their eyes are much more likely to stay on the iSight camera. Just prepare your speaker first so they aren’t caught off guard. But I’ve found this actually works better.

If you ever have problems recording your Skype calls, don’t hesitate to contact me directly. I’ll help ya out.

I am trying to do something similar on screen flow: conduct an interview but I am having major problems.

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