Easy Prompter
If you have the Videonics TM-2000 CG (character generator) or any CG like it, you can use it as a video
prompter. Just write your dialog and store it as a scroll in your CG. Then hook up the CG to a monitor
and place the monitor just...
Every time you point your camcorder and push the record button, you're recording history.
Seriously. Even though you may think it's just another birthday video full of screaming children, there's more to it than that. You are (perhaps unwittingly) helping to document the age in which we live. In just...
If you've followed the articles in this column for a while, then you know how important good quality
sound is to your videos. And you've probably read it here over and over again: attaching an external
mike to your camcorder can help you obtain better audio.
But sometimes, using an...
Video, despite what the word suggests, is not just a visual medium. It's also very much an audio medium.
Audio makes video come alive. Would you watch a music video without the music, or a wedding video in which you couldn't hear the exchange of vows? Pretty dull stuff.
When you...
Too many videos suffer from bad sound. Common symptoms include distant, tinny voices surrounded by ambient noise--appliances, air conditioners and even passing traffic. Another warning sign: when it's time to play back your tapes, you have to turn the TV volume level up annoyingly high to hear your audio.
If...
If it were a perfect world--well, a perfect video world--we'd all be rich and famous.
Let me set up a little scenario in Perfectdom. Joey Camcorder utilizes all of his video skills to produce a
pretty impressive and technically adept 30-minute program entitled High School Hidden Video.
The show is...
Zoom In, Zoom Out
Matsushita is working on a new ultra-sensitive CCD that can produce
10,000 levels of halftone, compared to about 500 levels for the average
camcorder today. Matsushita officials claim this new CCD could lead to a
pocket-sized camcorder with more advanced imaging capabilities than
todays professional three-chip...
More and more these days, consumer videomakers are doing more than just shooting footage--they're
editing. But when it comes time to purchase the gear to do this, they find themselves in a bewildering maze
of acronyms and hyphens: LANC, Control-M, RS-422, VISCA.
"What's an editing protocol?" you ask the dealer,...
Remember the last time you went to a movie and you heard the actors on the right side of the screen--and their
voices came from the same side? Or you saw a monster stomp from one side of the screen to the other, and the
sound of the footsteps...
Are you familiar with the term "frequently asked questions?" Well, it's a bit more Internet jargon we all need to swallow. When you first join "newsgroups" or "visit" "sites" you should first find their lists of "frequently asked questions"--FAQs as they are affectionately called. These provide answers to the...
