April 1996
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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.
Reviews
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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Departments
Transferring Movies, Slides Requires Finesse
Ask Videomaker. Questions and comments from our readers and answers from the editor
Netscape's Navigator 2.0 Web browser Debuts
Quick Focus
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Introduce Yourself
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Seeking thoughts on the AG-HVX200A Camera
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Video News Blog
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On YouTube, Good Audio Will Put Your Video Ahead of the Pack
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