Cats Eye for Camcorders
ITT Night Vision, a leading manufacturer of night-vision products, recently introduced the ITT Night Cam 300 and 310, a pair of night-vision units designed for use with camcorders and 35mm still cameras. Though designed for capturing video or still images in near-total darkness, the Night Cam...
This month:
Canon ES3000 Hi8 Camcorder
Sony DHR-1000 DV Editing VCR
Audio-Technica AT835b Shotgun Condenser Microphone
Seagate Medalist Pro 2520 2.5GB ATA-2 Hard Drive
Macromedia Extreme 3D 2.0
Hi8 Editing Made Easy
ES3000 Hi8 Camcorder
($1399)
Canon USA, Inc.
One Canon Plaza
Lake Success, NY 11042
(800) 828-4040
tech specs
For those videographers who prefer to stick with the tried-and-true analog formats, one...
Master of the Field
The latest in Studiomaster's line of portable audio mixers is the 42DLC-XLR Compact, a 4-channel
battery-powered mixer that's easy to tote around from location to location. Each channel offers a choice
between a balanced XLR microphone input and an unbalanced line-level input; also present on each...
This month:
Sony DCR-PC7 Mini DV Camcorder
Videonics Titlemaker 3000 Character Generator
Azden WR22-PRO Wireless Microphone Receiver
DraCo Systems Casablanca Stand-alone Nonlinear Editor
TAO Media Systems L-Port 422 Protocol Convertor
Smaller is Better
DCR-PC7 Mini DV Camcorder
($3199)
Sony
One Sony Drive
Park Ridge, NJ 07656
http://www.sony.com
The trend of miniaturization is certainly nothing new to the consumer camcorder marketplace. Even while...
This month:
Sharp VL-H550U Hi8 Viewcam
Videomaker's Nickel-cadmium Battery Test
Studio 1 Productions Dual Proc Amp
Apple Macintosh Performa 6400 with Avid Cinema Nonlinear Editor
CrystalGraphics 3D Vortex Plug-in Transitions
Origin of the Species
VL-H550U Hi8 Viewcam
($2199)
Sharp Electronics
Sharp Plaza
Mahwah, NJ 07656
As the originator of the built-in LCD monitor concept, Sharp Corporation has established itself as...
This month:
Canon ES4000 Hi8 Camcorder
Mini DV Face-off:Sony DCR-TRV7 Mini DV Camcorder
Panasonic PV-DV710 Mini DV Camcorder
Ulead MediaStudio Pro 5.0
Radius PhotoDV/MotoDV IEEE 1394 FireWire Capture Card
Finally, Affordable Time Code
Canon ES4000 Hi8 camcorder
($1199)
Canon USA Inc.
One Canon Plaza
Lake Success, NY 10042-1113
(800) 828-4040
http://www.canon.com
It's what gives us the ability to slice a single second...
In the dark ages of the early 1990s, mankind had to wait many minutes to view downloaded video clips from the Internet. Unfortunately, mortal man is very impatient, and wanted to watch the video as it was downloaded; thus streaming video was born. Streaming video is a term applied...
Flipped Out
Hitachi VM-E625LA 8mm Camcorder
($999)
Hitachi Home Electronics
3890 Steve Reynolds Blvd.
Norcross, GA 30093
(770) 279-5600
Just a few years ago, only one company--Sharp--made camcorders with built-in LCD monitors. This year,
however, five of the seven manufacturers listed in our 8mm camcorder buyer's guide (August 1996)
produced at least one camcorder with this...
I'm interested in dubbing audio over video. I saw a separate piece of equipment that looked like a mixer which you can use between CD, tape and VCR. Is this a good way to dub audio?
Robert Iutzwig
Internet
The piece of equipment to which you refer is probably a sound mixer....
Microsoft Corp. is staging an aggressive bid to help Windows NT land the plum role as the video editing platform of choice. Not content to be typecast in corporate environments, Microsoft turned in a stellar performance with NT at a recent broadcasting trade show. The traditional marquee stars in...
