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5 Tips for Adding a Light Source With Light Reflectors
 Amid all the talk of second screens and mobile devices, one simple joy is easily passed - a handy light source. Now all we need to do is trade our touch screens for reflector techniques and we can entertain dogs, cats and dragons for...
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Polaroid XS80 Mountable HD Action Camera
If you’re planning an adventure  where you'll need to cross a river, bike your way through the forest or climb a mountain, including an action camera in your video kit can help you relive the fun later. Better yet an affordable model...
Writing Proposals that Sell
The PrologueI don’t mean to rain on this parade before the first baton is twirled into the air, but you need to know that getting free money is a whole lot of work. As my grant writing independent study teacher informed me when I started my graduate...
Hits and Impact Sound Effects
Have you noticed that Hollywood is rarely subtle? They can’t just have a car crash, it has to be a car crash with an explosion. It can’t just be an earthquake, it must be an earthquake with massive destruction of every building in sight. To be...
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Manfrotto 502 Tripod System Review
For those who want to take their video production to the next level, a quality tripod system is a necessity. Manfrotto began producing tripods that were innovative, light and versatile. The Manfrotto 502 system is no different. Manfrotto offers a wide range...
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How To Videos - 10 Tips to Making More Effective Training Videos

How To videos and training videos are everywhere - from how to install a car engine to how to saddle a horse and how to build a model train. Many people think that since they know how to do something well enough, that they can use video sharing to...
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Adobe Drops Creative Suite--Former CS Products Now Subscription Only

All you that talk about "CS6" or Premiere, listen up. Adobe announced that they will not continue to develop their Creative Suite. No CS7, no giant package of production software. However Adobe would only be making enemies if we stopped now, their...
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The Difference Between Raw Video and Uncompressed Video

If you follow Videomaker closely, you've likely seen us use the terms raw video and uncompressed video. We might say “Camera A captures uncompressed video” or “Camera B shoots raw.” Hopefully we've never said “Camera C shoots uncompressed raw...
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Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera Footage (Graded) Hits the Web

John Brawley, beta tester for Blackmagic Design, posted footage from the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera on this blog today. The subject of his footage looks like home video material, but the quality definitely doesn't look like what you might see...
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Thunderbolt or USB 3.0--Which is the Better Option?

This year at CES, we heard quite a bit about products coming out using USB 3.0 and/or Thunderbolt. Hard drives, card readers, monitors, even laptop docking stations. Thunderbolt is becoming more and more common in PCs, while the USB Promoter Group...
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5 Tips for Adding a Light Source With Light Reflectors

Amid all the talk of second screens and mobile devices, one simple joy is easily passed - a handy light source. Now all we need to do is trade our touch screen swiping for reflector techniques and we can entertain dogs, cats and dragons for hours....
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Charging Batteries: Soon you Might Power your Camera in Seconds

Imagine a world where you can charge your batteries in seconds, rather than hours, and the size of the battery doesn't limit the size of the device.
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Technicolor Announces Color Assist 1.5 for Adobe After Effects

Technicolor announced the latest version of Color Assist, a video color correction and grading software package. Key improvements of version 1.5 include compatibility with Adobe After Effects and support AVCHD video and still images.

Writing Proposals that Sell

The good news for video producers - there’s lots of money out there to fund your production. The bad news - to get it, you have to work hard and follow the rules exactly as requested.
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Build an Open with Graphics, Cameras and Expressions

Go behind the scenes as we break down how the opens for our latest Videomaker web videos were created with Adobe After Effects.  From start to finish, we show you how we built a basic two dimensional graphic title, and then used camera movement...

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