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Cameras

Buying A Camcorder: How To Find the Perfect Model For You

The grinning video salesman behind the counter slowly leans forward and stretches out his long fingers for your hard-earned cash. You turn and run...

Shooting

Camera Work: Smooth Moves

Videomaker

To bring off suave and liquid moving shots, film studios use equipment that can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. But you can make...

Directing

Feasible Fantasy: How To Create Convincing Sci-Fi on a Low Budget

Videomaker

Have you ever wanted to make a sci-fi video, complete with sleek starships, strange worlds, and bug-eyed monsters, but feared it would require a...

Planning

Honing Your Ideas: From Concept to Finished Treatment

Videomaker

If you're like most videomakers, you probably have more project ideas than you can shake a camcorder at. So with a little talent and...

Directing

Video Storytelling: How Drama and Comedy Can Enliven Your Productions

Videomaker

How Drama and Comedy Can Enlighten Your Productions The groom and his best man stand together at the altar before a solemn-faced minister. They glance...

Audio

Sima Video Editor Creates Fancy Scene Transitions

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Clean and Simple FX-L Video Ed/it Sima 6153 Mulford Street Niles, IL 60714 ($474.95) Sima, known for simple and easy to use products, continues its tradition with the FX-L Video...

Audio

How to Combine Multiple Signals and Still maintain Total Sound Control

Videomaker

Controlling your audio is a breeze when you've got just one signal to work with. One mike input, one mike cable, one mike. No...

Directing

Cables and Connectors: They’re More Important Than You Think

Videomaker

They're More Important Than You Think Walk into any Radio Shack and wander through the sections for audio and video cables and connectors. Thousands of...

Editing

The Art of the Edit

Videomaker

When Oliver Stone turned over the massive amount of raw footage that became JFK, editor Joe Hutshing knew it would be a challenge. "I...

News

Viewfinder: The Confusion Solution

Videomaker

The Confusion Solution We regularly receive letters from subscribers concerned that Videomaker is too complicated. Confused by acronyms like A/B roll, PCM audio and...