Feature Stories
Best Products of the Year
The best consumer video production products of 2006, selected by the editors of Videomaker.
Departments
Cinematize 2 Pro for Windows | Sony offers a HDV Mini DV video tape.
New Gear: Cinematize 2 Pro for Windows allows the extraction of DVD-VR. PlexEraser destroys the data on CD or DVD media without destroying the disc.
New 60p JVC GY-HD200 | Record HD on Standard DVD-R | Blu-ray Compression.
JVC GY-HD200 Goes 60p with 720/60p format. Playback and recording HD DVD content on standard DVD-R. Sorenson Squeeze 4.5 with video compression for Blu-ray.
February 2007
Table of Contents
Columns
Viewfinder
Micro Short Videos
Special Effects: 7 Sizzling Cool Camera FXs!
Low cost camera tricks to create amazing illusions for your viewers.
Director's Chair: Screen Direction
Screen direction is perhaps one of the most confusing yet easily remedied problems in directing a video production.
Jargon: Lighting Terms
Lighting Terms
Moving Performances
Learn how to set the stage so that your subjects behave naturally in front of the camera.
Video Editing : A Titillating Tickler on Titling
Quick, open your titler, choose a trendy font and color, then type some words and position it on the screen; done. But there is more, much more, to titles than this.
Sound Advice: Room Without a View
Anyone who has ever struggled to record a clean voice over appreciates the importance of a dedicated recording space.
Test Bench
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Camcorder Review:
Sony HDR-FX7 HDVThe HDV Line is Growing -
Audio for Video Production:
Stock20 Library Collection 001 Music LibraryGetting inTunes for Your Video: A Review of the Stock 20 Nusic Library -
Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0:
Video Editing Software ReviewElements Turns 3.0 -
Shotgun Microphone Review:
Audio-Technica AT897Riding Shotgun -
Roxio Easy Media Creator 9 Suite Editing, Burning, Authoring Software Review
Too Full Toolbox
