April 1996 Table of Contents

Feature Stories

Found Sound

Sound effects have immense value in video production. The ability to re-create an "aural environment" after the shooting is done gives videomakers much more control over their work, both enhancing the final product and helping to simplify the capturing of visual footage.

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Columns

How to Use a Camcorder: Keeping Your Image Steady

Ways to steady your camcorder. Use an external viewfinder to keep your hard forehead from touching the camera.

Pause: To Read or to Watch

The pen may be mightier than the sword, but it's no match for the lens.

On Ramp: New Technologies, New Outlets

Emerging technolgies promise new distribution outlets for videomakers.

Edit Suite: Transition Tricks

Here's how to put transitions to work in your video productions.

Audio Advice: Digital Audio Basics

What digital audio is, and how it's going to change what we actually hear when we play back our video masterpieces.

Profitmaker: Portrait of a Family

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