Profitmaking Archives

Audio

Ten Secrets in Response to Ten Rules for Great Hi8

Top 10 Secrets for Fair-to-Middlin' Hi-8! (An update to "Ten Rules for Great Hi8" in the October 1997 issue.) Remove lens cap. Don't use VHS tape...

Directing

Projects That Pay: Personal Histories: Video for Future Generations

Videomaker

Record the stories of a lifetime for a legacy on video. Graying baby boomers, who once thought of the future as a distant event, are trying to...

Editing

Projects That Pay: Making Memories: Video Yearbooks for Fun and Profit

Videomaker

Whether for fun or profit, capturing school events on video can be rewarding. Pep Rallies. Football Games. Prom Night. Graduation. Ever wish you could be...

News

Quick Focus

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User Groups Existing Groups Bay Area Video Coalition 2727 Mariposa Street, 2nd Floor San Francisco, CA 94110 Contact: Jordan Steinberg Phone: 415-861-3282 Meetings: Time and location varies Suffolk Video Club 15 Columbus Ave. Brentwood,...

News

The Last Broadcast is A First: The Making of a Digital Feature

Videomaker

"It's like we're standing on the North Pole..." "And the snow's flying everywhere!" "And we've got the flag ..." "And it's spinning in circles!" ...

News

Profitmaker: A Client in Need is a Client Indeed

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A videographer's guide to the care and feeding of clients. Your clients are a mysterious bunch, aren't they? One minute a client can be purring...

News

Press Principles

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From the birth of the United States, democracy has walked hand in hand with literacy and a free press. Between 1640 and 1700, 89...

Planning

Profitmaker: Budget for Profit

Videomaker

Estimating the cost of a video for a client is a tricky but necessary part of doing business. Here's how to do it right. Let's...

News

Profitmaker: Oh, Grow Up.

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Wanted -- Part-time videographer and videotape editor for small but growing video service bureau. Must juggle several projects simultaneously. Experienced preferred, but will train...

Profitmaking

Microsoft Wants Windows NT to be Standard for Video Editing

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Microsoft Corp. is staging an aggressive bid to help Windows NT land the plum role as the video editing platform of choice. Not content...