October 2006

Features 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.

Lock your Doors! Video Horror Stories are Back!

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.