Feature Stories
Tutorial:
The Compression Connection
How to Give Your Audio That Pro Sound
The Wedding Biz
A guide to starting awedding 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)
Departments
In Box
readers' letters
New Gear
hot off the presses
June 2008
Table of Contents
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.
Test Bench
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Speaker Review:
M-Audio Studiophile AV 40 SpeakersThe Sound of Music - And Speech -
Camcorder Review:
Sanyo Xacti VPC-HD1000 CamcorderSet Phasers to HD -
Software Review:
Storyist v1.3.6 Novel and Screenwriting SoftwareW/T: Starting With a Story -
Lights Review:
Photoflex Starlite Dual Spectrum KitStarlite Star Bright