Edit Sweet Edit Suite Edit Controller Videonics 1370 Dell Avenue Campbell, CA 95008-6604 ($699) The Edit Suite A/B-roll edit controller from Videonics has finally arrived. This long-awaited editor offers multi-format and multi-protocol editing at an affordable price point. This unit gives videomakers professional-level editing power without setting foot in a professional studio. The Edit Suite supports...
Here you have it--a year's worth of Videomaker at your fingertips. In this third annual index, you'll find the articles listed alphabetically under the following subject categories: Buyer's Guides Production Equipment Post-production Equipment Pre/Post-production Techniques Production Techniques Technical Explanations Assorted Next come the columns. The column headings are placed in the order in which the columns appear...
Consumer-level digital video is no longer just a dream, thanks to the introduction of DVC (digital video cassette) camcorders from such major manufacturers as Panasonic and Sony. One of Sony's first entries into the DVC race is the DCR-VX1000 Digital Handycam. Its introduction marks a major turning point in...
Scan Lines Avid Reality: Avid Technology recently acquired Elastic Reality, a leading developer of special effects software. This merger will allow Avid's existing line of digital editing solutions to benefit from Elastic Reality's compositing, morphing, paint and special effects capabilities.Zip It: Iomega Corporation has introduced a new desktop computer storage...
These days our audiences expect more. Seeing hundreds of hours of network television and big-budget films have made the viewers of our videos more demanding; they dont want to watch while your vacation video shows your feet and they dont let editing glitches go by without comment. Today we...
What one accessory can make or break a video shoot? Consider the following. Before becoming a "professional," everyone needs a paying job. Mine was, of course, a friend's wedding. No major production. A one-camera set-up using the on-board mic. The outdoor setting eliminated the need (at least for my...
Paying Its Way AG-456UP S-VHS Camcorder Panasonic Broadcast & Television Systems One Panasonic Way Secaucus, NJ 07094 ($2495) The Panasonic AG-400 series of S-VHS camcorders has set a standard for providing high-quality, industrial-level camcorders at consumer-level prices. Notable features in past models have included a two-CCD imager section (AG-460) and vertical interval time code...
The words scrawled across the blackboard, pronouncing the name of the show in bold, slightly smeared lettering: "The Case of the Missing Headphones!" Thus began one of the many video projects that wash across my desk in a semester long torrent. The students were using their imagination just...
Hitchcock is "notorious" for having done it. Spielberg has been known to hire armies of artists to do it. Now, thanks to new technologies, even the most basic videomaker can make use of it. If you don't do it, in fact, you could be opening yourself up to problems...
Screen Tests by Doug Polk PC Video Ed/It ($60) Sima Products Company 6153 Mulford Street Niles, IL 60714 (800) 345-7462 Sima has a long history of making stand-alone video editors for the budget- minded consumer, but this is their first venture into computer-controlled editing. The PC Video Ed/It uses software and a priority cable that connects to...