James Urban
Wheaton, IL
Camcorder: Canon XL2
Editing software: Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5

Prize: Azden 100LTH Wireless Microphone ($450)

A well-executed sports video documenting a fastpitch softball team. Urban used a wide open aperture of his XL2's lens, popped in the ND filters and used fast shutter speeds to achieve a very smooth film-like look.

Wendy Evans
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Camcorder: Sony DCR-TRV20E
Editing software: Adobe Premiere 6.5
Prize: Ulead DVD Workshop 2 ($395)

A native dance contest in the Pacific Islands is documented in this video.

Jason Hall
Sewell, NJ
Camcorder: Canon GL2
Editing software: Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5
Prize: Serious Magic Visual Communicator Studio ($490)

SharpFocus XS is a clever parody on a drug commercial that features a guy in a gorilla suit. All of Hall's footage was acquired over the course of one-day shoot.

Scott Seraydarian
Doylestown, PA
Camcorder: Sony DCR-VX2000
Editing software: Apple Final Cut Pro 4.5
Prize: Trilab Digital Hotcakes Grand Slam ($579)

An abandoned train car is the backdrop for this story of lost love set to music.

Brian Taylor
Toledo, OH
Camcorder: Canon XL1S
Editing software: Apple Final Cut Pro
Prize: Sony Media Software Vegas+DVD Production Suite ($900)

A very well-produced video for the Toledo, Ohio-based band Spor included some interesting public domain footage from the Prelinger Archives.

Jason Adair and Jon Guthrie
Savannah, GA
Camcorder: Panasonic AG-DVC15
Editing software: Adobe Premiere Pro
Prize: VariZoom DV Sportster Combo Kit ($1,800)

Adair and Guthrie produced Speed as a school project. Shooting took 2½ days. Color correction was performed with Adobe After Effects, and the music was composed with Apple Soundtrack.

Keith Feeney
Perrysburg, OH
Animation software: Macromedia Flash MX
Editing software: Nova Video Explosion Deluxe
Prize: JonyJib JonyPrompter ($1,995)

A Flash animation ports to video nicely in this samurai warrior fight with brilliant, saturated colors.

Mark Wickham
Mendham, NJ
Camera: Nikon D100 SLR
Editing software: Adobe Premiere Pro
Prize: NewTek VT [4] ($3,995)

A smoothly-animated composition of high-resolution still images taken at a golf tournament comes together very well.

Riley Harmon
Shawnee, OK
Camcorder: Panasonic PV-DV953
Editing software: Adobe Premiere
Prize: Digital Juice-Graphics/music/footage Mega-Pack: 27 Volumes of Jump Backs Animated Backgrounds, 10 Volumes of StackTraxx Production Music, 6 Volumes of Editor's Toolkits Animated Graphic Sets, 3 Volumes of VideoTraxx Stock Footage Library ($7,854)

Grand Prizewinner Riley Harmon produced Carbon Nation's classroom full of identical children with some self-taught After Effects skills. The video was edited together over five days, and was shot in about eight hours.We also want to give recognition to Riley for Media Control PSA, a separate :30 spot that he submitted on the theme of being overloaded by the media.

Congratulations to all of our winners, and hats off to all of our entrants on a job well done. We are anxious to see what next year's videos will look like. Look for the next Call for Entries to appear in the July and August 2006 issues of Videomaker.