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June 2008 Cover Image

June 2008 Table of Contents

Feature Stories

Tutorial:
The Compression Connection

How to Give Your Audio That Pro Sound

The Wedding Biz

A guide to starting a wedding video business.

Stock Footage 101
Buyer's Guide

With the ever increasing demand for quality and quick turn-around time, stock footage is fast becoming not just a simple convenience but rather a downright necessity.

Camcorder Buyer's Guide
Shooting With Style

Feature-Rich Camcorders

Creating Shadows

Dramatic Lighting without Fear (Or, How I Learned to Love the Dark)

Reviews

Speaker Review:
M-Audio Studiophile AV 40 Speakers

The Sound of Music - And Speech

Camcorder Review: Sanyo Xacti VPC-HD1000 Camcorder

Set Phasers to HD - Hands down, the HD 1000 gets its highest marks for coolness. Whip it out at the next family reunion and envy will fill the air. This camera is genuinely stylish; add in its light weight and small size and it becomes a very useful little tool.

Software Review:
Storyist v1.3.6 Novel and Screenwriting Software

W/T: Starting With a Story

Lights Review:
Photoflex Starlite Dual Spectrum Kit

Starlite Star Bright

Columns

Viewfinder

How Easy Can It Get?

Basic Training: Tricks for J and L Cuts

Editing is an art, offering you hundreds of choices of cuts in every 30-frame second. The subtle J- and L-cuts are two of the most powerful, yet simple, transitions of all.

Distribution: Web Video for Beginners

Video is all over the place on the web nowadays, and nobody wants to get left behind. But how do you add video to a website, and, more importantly, why should you?

Directing: Set Time Management

Dashing out the door with camcorder in hand, but no plan, can cost you. Time is money. In video production, this is perhaps more true than in any other profession.

What's Legal: Producers Rights.

Private Lives: Who is protected... the producer or the citizen? It depends.

Audio: Hearing... Visually!

Some audio recorded may be sounds you want, others might not. There are magical visual maps of the sounds you hear that allow you to remove and control all that noise.

Departments

In Box

readers' letters

Quick Focus

New Video Equipment: Mini Camera Bag PMCAB-| Sorenson Squeeze 5 new codecs

New Gear: Petrol's Mini Camera Bag . Process multiple files at the same time with Sorenson Squeeze 5.

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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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