well -- echoing, hollow and distorted. This usually arises when you are using the camera microphone to record the sound; no matter how much camera manufacturers swear up and down that their on-camera mics are of excellent quality, in the main they are not. Rather than go to the expense and palaver of setting up individual mics, you can simply ensure that the place where you record your video is as sound-dead as possible. A nice, fluffy, thickly carpeted, softly furnished living room is ideal, well away from domestic noises. And avoid shooting in large open spaces, outdoors, and anywhere with hard floors and few soft furnishings. Do you have any favourite tips of your own on how to shoot a DIY video? If so please share them with us here. And let me know if this topic interests you a lot, as I can expand on it at some length...!! (I wrote and produced corporate videos for a long time back in the Ming Dynasty...) For now, here's some useful further reading: MakeAVideo.net ... they seem very fond of one particular brand of software but there could be commercial reasons for this! However they offer some useful advice. Tim Carter from AskTheBuilder.com, on YouTube ... this assumes you want to do a relatively fancy video, but the basic advice is good. Comments 1. Do not have notes on your knee, they'll rustle and by constantly glancing down, you'll look shifty. 2. If you find it difficult to look into