Tapping into an existing audio mixer often results in a clearer audio track.
Say your skills at video production have earned you a good reputation locally, allowing you to land a job videotaping an important event. The event includes music, speaking and some short skits. It's quite a production, taking...
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 Beach Babe Experiment. Three of the hundreds of successfully marketed low-budget videos available on the market today. Never heard of them? Well, neither have many...
High quality. Extra high quality. High grade. Extra high grade. Super high grade. Premium Grade. Only one item in the videomakers arsenal can claim such a bewildering range of superlatives in such a seemingly banal product: blank tape.
Listening to the marketing hype can give you the idea youre choosing...
When was the last time you looked at a video monitor? As a videomaker, you probably use monitors quite often, whether out in the field, in the editing suite, or both. And like many videomakers, you probably take them for granted. But take another look and ask a few...
Hold on, folks. Another "home movie" format is heading our way. The much-ballyhooed Digital Video
Disc (DVD) is on the verge of entering the marketplace. Are you gonna be ready?
A small cousin to the 12-inch disc currently available, DVDs are identical in size (5-inch diameter) to
audio compact discs....
Visionaries? Prophets? Geniuses? Or just people who happened to be in the right place at the right time? Whatever you call them, the pioneers of the consumer video industry have changed the way we make video. They've brought us VHS, low-cost video editors, desktop video and a whole catalog...
Whether you tape them for fun or profit, reunions offer video opportunities second only to weddings.
What kinds of reunions? Well, high school and college, of course, and family reunions too. But just about any organization that existed 25 years ago or earlier is liable to dust off an old...
If you've spent any time looking at editing
systems, you may have come across terms like serial data transfer, Control-L, Control-M and ViSCA. They
sound more like things you'd expect from an episode of Star Trek than features of editing
systems.
What are these cryptic terms, you ask? They're names...
Its 11 a.m. on April 27th, 1995; a multitude of videomakers and industry professionals have descended upon the Meadowlands convention center in Secaucus, New Jersey. The event is the 1995 Videomaker Expo--three days of displays, seminars and panel discussions, all on the topic of making video.
At this particular moment,...
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 Camcorder utilizes all of his video skills to produce a
pretty impressive and technically adept 30-minute program entitled High School Hidden Video.
The show is...
