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This one is easy for me to answer. New to the whole experience of DV cameras and computer editing, yet an old hat from the days of stacking VIDEO players on top of each other with expensive FADE and WIPE machines wired between them to produce my work, then having Videomaker and the website available to me are BOTH as essential to my current education and understanding of how to make my business work this time around in history.

Hard pressed to choose just ONE, as it would be to choose between chewing or swallowing a delicious piece of cheese cake. Leave out One and the Other choice is only half as enjoyable! I'm pleasantly HOOKED on both mediums and I don't plan on finding a cure for either! I'll keep you both! And I thank You for such wonderful work!
Sid Grimm
Film Maker

I personally enjoy reading a paper version of Videomaker magazine... I also enjoy the website... The best of both worlds... Please continue the magazine... Thank you

James J. Szczecinski
4 year subscriber and running

My thoughts:
1. The print version is not quite high quality. Each issue seems to have misspelled words, and rather poorly written articles. For example: page 34 of the April, 2008 mentions "jib". So what the heck is a jib? A sail? A snide remark? The article assumes the reader knows what a jib is. By not explaining the term this article shortchanges the subscriber.

2. The best part of the Videomaker community is the online "How to" instructional videos. One of the best parts of these instructional videos is a list of internet resources. This is best illustrated in the recent video about car chases.
Dan Benson
Klamath Falls, OR

You always have great "text" information, I'd like to see it also in a video format. I'd even be willing to pay more for this feature. Lynda.com is one of my best training sites, I'd like to see you do something similar for video.
Tom Terrific

I prefer the paper mag, even though the Internet is the new media and will continue to grow in strength in the future. Advertising is taking a new twist with the advent of the Internet. The printed page has always been the viable source for someone wishing to promote items of description and detail. To get the full benefit of the Internet, one must constantly be online, either searching for new informational input, interacting with others, and a multitude of other reasons or uses. While on line, does one get the exposure to the variety of items a magazine has to offer?

In a magazine, one has a multitude of information visually being presented, either in picture or writing. Someone might skip over some info the first time while searching for something of more immediate interest. Yet that magazine sits there for days, weeks maybe months. And one has the opportunity to glance back over it for reference or to review subjects that one missed previously and have become presently more pertinent. The advertising in the magazine is also a plus, promoting the items of greatest interest and the latest products. I feel the interaction of the magazine and the use of the Internet for How-To Videos and providing a source for individuals to have a vehicle to discuss video production problems and successes as well as sharing their creations, is a viable and useful service.

Let me take this opportunity to congratulate you and your competent staff on the creation of a most useful and well presented magazine.
Jim Barton

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