Video News

• Shooting DSLR Audio with the BeachTEK DXA-SLR PRO Audio Adapter

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  Jennifer O'Rourke - February 08th, 2013

  

  How many times have you heard video producers complain about their love-hate relationship with the new DSLR shooting and workflow? Yes, using a DSLR gives you the chance to swap lenses and capture great depth-of-field shots, but then you have to deal with the one big issue that traditional camcorders have addressed for decades: capturing good clean audio. BeachTEK has a solution.

  Blog Tags:  audio microphone beachtek DSLRs beachtek dxa

• Rode Continues to Innovate With the iOS smartLav Microphone

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  chipdizard - February 07th, 2013

  

  Innovation and iOS are words that are often seen together, but now add RØDE to this list with the release of smarLav. It’s a lapel microphone that makes it easy to record to your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch via the headphone jack.

  Blog Tags:  Rode microphone lavalier lav mic lav

• Event Videography - One Challenge for Further Review at Super Bowl XLVII

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  Jackson Wong - February 05th, 2013

  

  Event videography, now there's a beast, as many of our readers will attest to. The number of events that lose power is few, but when the job is to get a final video, or even a live stream out, what's a videographer to do?

  Blog Tags:  Event Videography Super Bowl XLVII CBS news blank media audio commentary reflectors battery-powered

• What is a McGuffin? Movie Terms Defined

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  Jennifer O'Rourke - February 01st, 2013

  

  Movies terms define an action, a shot type, a character or a piece of gear, and all of these are meant to help the plot move along, or help the crew know which device to use next, or to help someone like a camera operator prepare for the next shot or scene. One unusual term is "McGuffin". The plot of many movies will maneuver around the McGuffin - so what IS it exactly, and why would video producers want a McGuffin appearing in their movie?

  Blog Tags:  McGuffin movie plot point movie terms Hitchcock video producer.

• Focus Assist: Necessity or Crutch?

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  Mike Wilhelm - January 30th, 2013

  

  Today, most video is shot with the shooter looking at an LCD screen, often a foot or more away from their face and without protection from ambient light sources. As a result, capturing clear video that's in focus has become more difficult.

  Blog Tags:  focus assist focus camcorder controls

• Shed 4k Video Storage Weight That You Don't Even Have Yet

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  Jackson Wong - January 29th, 2013

  

  Order your 4k content from T3Media. Ordering food at a counter, is for many kids, a big step. We as video editors are constantly having to make steps to keep up with video technology, so how do we plan to deal with one of the new menu items, 4k?

  Blog Tags:  4K t3media video storage 4k support Linear Tape-Open Linear Tape File System Storage Media Management

• Winter Doldrums: 3 Video Tips to Fight the Winter Blues

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  Jennifer O'Rourke - January 25th, 2013

  

  The winter blues are upon us and the world is awash in cloudy cover and cold colorless terrain.There's nothing to shoot, nothing to do, and nothing to inspire. Here are three tips to help you get through the winter doldrums and prepared for some great spring shoots.

  Blog Tags:  stock video stock footage winter blues winter doldrums

• Thunderbolt or USB 3.0--Which is the Better Option?

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  Mike Wilhelm - January 23rd, 2013

  

  This year at CES, we heard quite a bit about products coming out using USB 3.0 and/or Thunderbolt. Hard drives, card readers, monitors, even laptop docking stations. Thunderbolt is becoming more and more common in PCs, while the USB Promoter Group plans to update USB 3 in order for it to reach 10Gb/s, virtually eliminating the speed gap. Many devices come in one flavor or the other, but for some, you have a choice.

  Blog Tags:  Thunderbolt USB Storage

• Toy Story's Story Retold

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  Jackson Wong - January 22nd, 2013

  

  Why would you recreate Toy Story? The creators of the Live Action Toy Story released a full-length Q & A uploaded yesterday, letting many ask, "What was your inspiration?" This really is an important question for anyone attempting to do a recreation or reenactment.

  Blog Tags:  Live Action Toy Story Toy Story recreation reenactment Youtube John Lasseter Joss Whedon Andrew Stanton

• A Movie's POV: What's your Point of View?

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  Jennifer O'Rourke - January 18th, 2013

  

  Looking for your movie's unique vantage point, its point of view, is an important approach that you might not think about, but can strengthen the overall story telling aspect. Some movies have a neutral POV, others tell the entire story through the eyes of one character. What's YOUR movie's POV?

  Blog Tags:  point of view POV vantage point POV shot

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