October 2006 Table of Contents

Feature Stories

DVD Blank Media, Blu-Ray, and Flash Memory.

Blank media for video explained. Advantages and disadvantages of blank media types.

Get Editing! An Editing Software Buyer's Guide

Whether you edit feature films for a living or your daughter's birthday party for your family, non-linear digital editing has changed the way professionals, hobbyists and everyone in-between work with media.

Video Horror Stories

From dropping a mic out of a helicopter over a raging forest fire to stumbling into a cesspool full of... Well...you know...a decades-long career as a news photographer has its highs and lows, leaving plenty of fodder for water cooler stories.

Depth of Field Demystified

How to manipulate the viewer into watching one portion of your movie, while other events continue along in the scene.

Reviews

Ulead VideoStudio 10 Plus Video Editing Software Review

Easy Edits

Music Scoring Software Review:
Sony Cinescore

Settling the Score

Camcorder Review:
Sony DCR-SR100 Hard Drive Camcorder

Putting Video in Drive

Review:
Disc Makers Pico Automated CD and DVD Duplication System

The Pico allows users to back up audio and home-movie DVD collections, archive personal data, or create and duplicate CDs and DVDs for home, business, educational, or ministry projects.

Test Bench: Magix Samplitude V8 Classic Audio Editing Software

Sampling Sound

Columns

Viewfinder: Unexpected Problem

Unexpected Problem

Basic Training: Composition 102: Part 2

Beauty might be in the eye of the beholder, but a great photo is due to well-executed and thought-out composition. Take your seats, it's time for the Advanced Class in Composing.

Director's Chair: Secrets of Storytelling

"And Toto, Too?" Say any classic movie line, and everyone knows not only the movie you're referring to, but also which scene and the character who spoke it.

Video Editing : The Ghosts of Edits yet to Be

Time to dim the lights and tell ghost stories. Our Editorial Department demonstrates some techniques on putting some spook into your videos.

Sound Advice: Digital Audio Secrets Revealed!

When it comes to audio in our videos, most of us just plug in a microphone and hit the record button.

Departments

Manfrotto 560B monopod | HP xw8400 Workstation lineup

Monopod utilizes fluid motion. HP's xw8400 Workstation lineup includes dual-core Intel Xeon processors

New HDV Camcorders Canon XH G1 & A1 | Free Video Player | New Vidcasts

New HDV Canon Camcorders XH G1 and XH A1.Democracy player a free video player get updated. New Vidcasts from Videomaker

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