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
M-Audio Studiophile AV 40 Speakers Review
The Sound of Music - And Speech
Sanyo Xacti VPC-HD1000 Camcorder Review
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.
Storyist v1.3.6 Novel and Screenwriting Software Review
W/T: Starting With a Story
Photoflex Starlite Dual Spectrum Kit Review
Starlite Star Bright
Columns
Making Video Gets Easier Every day
How Easy Can It Get?
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.
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?
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.
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
Web or Print: The Great Debate
readers' letters
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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