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Getting Started: Shooting for the Holidays

Ah, the holiday season! The feasts and festivities, the laughter and love, the torture and torment. That's right, torment...the sheer agony of sitting through typical...

Directing

Video Kickoff: Your Guide To Shooting Sports

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Sports video is more popular than ever. And why not? Today's easy-to-use camcorders make sports video a breeze for many parents. But sports video...

Shooting

Curing Camera Shake: Your Guide To Image Stabilization

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If your footage sometimes looks as if you taped it during an earthquake, it's not your fault. No hand-held video will be perfectly steady;...

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Profile: George Aguilar and Video Poetry

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"This poet's prayer was answered by the invention of the lens, which gave us a new gift for self knowledge. Might the cameras of...

Profitmaking

Commercial Distribution: The Next Step: Getting Started In the World of Broadcast

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When Michael Moore of Roger & Me fame debuted his new magazine show TV Nation on NBC last summer, it was cause for independent...

Editing

Edit Points: Master Cuts

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Learning by doing is fine. If you sit down at an edit controller and hit the buttons until they do what you want, you...

Cameras

GO-Video Finally Releases 8 mm to VHS Deck

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Video Twins Go-Video GV-8020 8mm/VHS Dual Deck VCR Go-Video 14455 N. Hayden Road, Suite 219 Scottsdale, AZ 85260 ($1099) Committed to the dual deck concept from the beginning, GO-Video offered...

Editing

Desktop Video: Scripting, Logging and More

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Owning a desktop computer won't help you with standard video production techniques. Computer or no computer, you must still master the basics of camcorders,...

Profitmaking

Video Entrepreneurs: Video Accounting

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Bookkeeping is the one area of running a video business that many videomakers give short shrift. Yet they do so at their peril. We're...

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On the Air

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For many independent videomakers, the leased access provision of the Cable Act of 1992 is the key to getting programming on the air. The...