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July 1999 Table of Contents

Feature Stories

Seven Tips for Impeccable Interviews

Make your guests feel at ease so they’ll open up and give you engaging interviews.

Nonlinear Editing for the Rest of Us

Excerpts from the Videomaker Expo West Turnkey Nonlinear Editing Panel

Microphones for Video: A Buyer’s Guide

Want to take your video to the next level? Get a mike. Check out this handy buyer’s guide.

The NTSC Signal: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

Does HDTV signal the end for NTSC? Learn what the NTSC standard means to you.

Reviews

ProMax Systems FireMAX Studio Core System Turnkey Nonlinear Editing System

Benchmark: Edirol VideoCanvas A-6 Digital Multi Audio Station

Edirol VideoCanvas A-6 Digital Multi Audio Station

Benchmark: AKG WMS 60 Wireless Microphone System

AKG WMS 60 Wireless Microphone System

Benchmark: Artel Software Boris FX 3.5 for Adobe Premiere

Artel Software Boris FX 3.5 for Adobe Premiere

Benchmark: Sharp VL-PD3U Mini DV Camcorder

Sharp VL-PD3U Mini DV Camcorder

Columns

Viewfinder: May I Suggest a New Acronym, the VRC?

Move over TV and VCR, an important and popular piece of technology gets its own acronym.

Getting Started: Creative Camcorder Work

By creatively positioning your camcorder, you can elicit a wide range of emotional responses from your audience.

Leased Access / Public Access

How to find the right people to be in your next video.

Video Out: Serve it Up: A Guide to Streaming Video Servers

Interested in mass distribution of your videos? Check out your alternatives for getting your videos up and streaming over the Internet.

Edit Suite: The Language of Transitions

The classical use of transitions, though not flashy, can be a powerful means to communicate.

Sound Track: External Miking

How a mobile mike can make your audio come alive.

Special Effects: The Invisible Man

Whether you realize it or not, you are familiar with chromakey technology. It's what TV news channels use to place weather people in front of a variety of computer-generated weather maps.

Real-time Sound Effects: The Foley Way

Match homemade sound effects to screen image using these time-tested Foley techniques.

Up The Creek Without A Filter

Transform common household items into perfect camcorder lens filters.

Departments

Letters to the Editor

Ask Videomaker. Questions and comments from our readers and answers from the editor.

Gear

After Effects 4.0
Powered Composite to S-video Converter
EQE Boompole Holder
HyperConverter Gold PCI scan converter
Lumiere Video Studio
ADS Pyro Digital Video Card
Manfrotto Low-angle Stabilizer
miroVideo DV200 FireWire card
Valentino Production Music and Sound Effect Library
Synthetic Aperture digital clip art

Latest Videos

Green Screen Video Tutorial

In this green screen video tutorial, we show you how to set-up a green screen for chromakey and how to best sell the green screen effect to your viewers.

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Best Practices for Using a Tripod to Stabilize your Shots.
How to set-up a tripod to capture professional level video. Learn the step-by-step process for setting up and stabilizing your tripod.
Lighting for Video
How to use indoor lights, natural light, and camera controls to create the best lighting for video production.

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