Feature Stories
Slide into "Thin Streaming"
How can you put your video productions on the Internet today? The answer lies in the slideshow, a fast and inexpensive wayto get your videos out to a mass audience without having to resort to slow, chunky and tiny video.
Dan's Drive-In Theater
When Oklahoma broadcast production students needed a venue to exhibit their video projects, they took to the fields and built their own drive-in theater.
Low Budgets and High Hopes
Great advice on how to make a low budget documentary.
The Desirable Dozen: 12 Features That Put the Editing VCR Atop the Videographer's Most-Wanted List
Explore the 12 features that put the editing VCR atop the videographer's most-wanted list. If a VCR doesn't have them, then it's not an editing deck - it's a deck trying to edit. Check out today's hottest models in the accompanying buyer's guide.
Outdoor Video Sound ...ound ...ound ...ound
Aare wind, background noise and uneven mike levels giving you a pain in the plug? These tips will help you capture clean, clear, and consistent audio even when you tape in the ambient racket of the great outdoors.
Digital Video & FireWire Made Simple
When digital video (DV) is combined with FireWire, you have everything you need to edit great quality videos. Dr. Cathode answers your questions about this new technology that's creating an exciting upheaval in the video world.
Departments
Letters to the Editor
Ask Videomaker. Questions and comments from our readers and answers from the editors.
Book and Tape Reviews
- Footage: The Worldwide Moving Image Sourcebook
- Complete Camcorder Troubleshooting and Repair
- The Essential TV Director's Handbook
Gear
- Quest Tiberon
- Datavideo Technologies MD-1000 Video Producer
- Seagate Elite 47
- Panasonic PV-L858
- Panasonic PV-L958
- RCA CC4371
- MetaCreations Final Effects Complete
- Vitec Multimedia MPEG-Cut Machine
- Sharp Electronics VL-PD1U
- Marshall Electronics V-VGA300
- Azden WX/T-PRO
May 1998
Table of Contents
Columns
Viewfinder: VHS: A Successful Format
The resilient videotape persists beyond expectations.
Getting Started: Videotape T.L.C.
Take care of your videotapes and they'll reward you.
Edit Suite: Editing: Linear or Nonlinear?
Don't confuse linear and nonlinear editing with analog and digital formats.
Sound Track: Top 10 Audio Crimes
Keep your recording clean by avoiding these common audio crimes.
Test Bench
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Benchmarks
- Sharp VL-DX10U DV Camcorder/Still Video Camera
- Elite Video SD-3 Duplication Station
- Bryce 3D Software
- Mitsubishi HS-U680 VHS VCR
- Video Sphinx Pro MPEG-1 Video Digitizer
Projects That Pay: Spare-Time Shooting: Making Hobbies Pay Off
Make some spare change shooting leisure-time activities.
Special F/X: (Sort of) Via Satellite
The secret to staging remote interviews
without a network television budget.