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Helping my Friend Mike Understand Animation

My friend Mike is prone to spontaneous buying, and no one can help him. When he decided his video studio needed animation, he grabbed...

Edit Suite Edit Controller is Finally Available from Videonics

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...

1995 Videomaker Article Index: January 1995 through December 1995

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...

Digital Video Now Available to Consumers

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...

Merger Could Mean Big Changes for Special Effects Software

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...

It’s All About Control: Edit Controllers for Videomakers

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...

Camcorder Battery Charger Choices: Matching Power to Purpose

What one accessory can make or break a video shoot? Consider the following. Before becoming a "professional," everyone needs a paying job. Mine was,...

Video Equipment Reviews

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...

The ABCs of Character Generators

The words scrawled across the blackboard, pronouncing the name of the show in bold, slightly smeared lettering: "The Case of the Missing Headphones!" Thus...

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,...