How do I make video footage clearer?

Just got back from Las Vegas. 5 of us travelled and we all had digital cameras and digital video cameras. I'm looking to make a video including all of the photos and all of the video footage. I also want to use both background music and sound from the...

I've seen several YouTube videos people have made that have clips from tv shows, with a song playing in a background, how do they get the footage to put in the video? Like how do ...show more

for example: how do you get that footage?

I'd like something I video taped at home to look more like this >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dm41zP_RZ… [ a video filmed by a person, not a production crew or anything.] rather than ... something like this >> http://www.youtube...

I would like to make an animated gif using content from a video on youtube, can anyone help me out?

As shown here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNm8ZCJ7F… Is there a video editing program for it?

I'm just wondering what I need to be able to see video played from my laptop computer onto my television screen.

Ok, so I want to film this thing, but whenever I do anything that has a little light in it, it looks like poop. Basically I want to know how to fix this in my editor, I have Sony Vegas pro 9 and Adobe Premiere Elements 8.0 I been thinking about blurring...

In this "making of" interview with Monsters director Gareth Edwards, he describes (starting at around 10:55) how they stuck an adaptor on the front of their video camera to make the footage look like it was shot on 35mm. http://www.makingof...