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Starting a Video Production Business

If you're thinking about getting into the video business, think hard. This month's column is for folks who make videos for fun, but feel that...

Apple Quicktime Finds Support for Motion JPG CODEC

Industry Watch Version 2.5 of Apple's Quicktime multimedia architecture will support the increasingly popular Motion-JPEG video CODEC. This will allow video editors and others involved...

Personal Video Distribution

Don't forget do-it-yourself distribution as a legitimate way to get your productions seen by others. Uncle Al's Ab Workout, Mike Jones' Kickin' Karate and The...

Video Production Services: Advice for Startups

If you've decided to take your video production services to the next level and actually turn your talent into a business, good for you....

Using Alcohol to Clean Video Heads

Q. In Videomaker's June 1995 issue, the article "Every Few Thousand Miles" warned against using alcohol as a cleaning fluid for cleaning video heads....

Cable TV: Leased Access

Leased access means one thing to the independent videomaker--opportunity. No other "institution" offers such a great outlet for viewership, profit and personal satisfaction. Finally,...

How to Create a Storyboard

Hitchcock is "notorious" for having done it. Spielberg has been known to hire armies of artists to do it. Now, thanks to new technologies,...

Desktop Video: Shooting Video for Multimedia

You've just been asked to produce a short video training program that will be distributed on CD-ROM. Or a multimedia publisher has hired you...

Consumer Video Visionaries

Visionaries? Prophets? Geniuses? Or just people who happened to be in the right place at the right time? Whatever you call them, the pioneers...