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Indy Media: The Camcorder’s Impact

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...

Sound Reasoning: Better Audio from Your Built-in Mike

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...

Audio Mixers for Video Production

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...

Wired for Sound

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...

On Ramp: Opportunities on Satellite

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...

Quick Focus

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...

Editing Protocols

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...

Sound Reasoning: Recording Stereo Sound

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...

Pause: Frequently Asked Questions

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...

Edit Points: A History of Videotape Editing

Video editing pioneers didn't have the simple pleasures we take for granted today. As you may already know, they didn't have things like time...