2001 Video Products in Review
An introduction to this special issue of Videomaker magazine.The year 2001 has carried in a treasure trove of new videography tools that make the creation of moving images and sound easier, cheaper and more enjoyable than ever.
As these products rolled off their assembly lines, many of them stopped at the Videomaker office on their way to the market place. We poked their buttons, clicked their mice and otherwise put them through their paces to see how well they did what they were designed to do. We shot video with the new camcorders and edited on the new computer editing systems. Then, we told our readers what we found in our Test Bench product reviews. Though a few products awed us with their brilliant design and functionality and a few dogs entirely "underwhelmed" us, most turned out to be good products with a few characteristics worthy of criticism.
As we know this is the time of year many think about buying toys, we thought it might be useful to group together, under one cover, a compendium of reviews of some of the year's most interesting products. We didn't have space for all the reviews we published this year, so we instead offer a sampling of reviews from four key product categ…
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