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Composition

Impress the Judges: How to Succeed in Video Contests

Movie festivals and competitions are an excellent and effective way to show your productions to large audiences. Winning a video contest can also improve...

Composition

Multi-camera Event Recording

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If you videotape events with multiple cameras, you can save time in post-production by doing live-to-tape multi-camera shoots. Graduations, dance recitals and sports are...

Workflow

Editing: Get Organized!

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If, as Edmund Burke asserted, "good order is the foundation of all good things," then good video production may spring from a bit of...

Lighting Design

Light Source: Working with Mixed Lighting

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"White" light ranges from the steely blue of outdoor open shade to the rosy orange of a household lamp on a dimmer. Your camcorder...

Editing

Editing: Layering Video

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Over this past spring school break, we took a family trip to the Grand Canyon. It's an amazing experience, in part because the canyon...

Editing

Ulead MediaStudio Pro 7.0 Editing Software Review

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We have no reservations about recommending Ulead Media Studio Pro 7 (MSP7). Ulead has been around as long as anyone and consistently comes out...

Editing

HP xw4100 Workstation Review

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$2,819 Hewlett-Packard Company 3000 Hanover Street Palo Alto, CA 94304 (800) 888-9909 www.hp.com It used to be that we recommended two paths for video editors looking to buy a computer....

Editing

Test Bench:Matrox Parhelia Multi-Display Card

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$399 Matrox Electronic Systems 1055 St-Rgis Blvd Dorval, QC, Canada H9P 2T4 (514) 822-6000 www.matrox.com A year or so ago, you needed a Matrox card to have a dual monitor...

Audio

Sound Advice: 10 Tips for Better Audio Gathering

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Video production can be quite complicated sometimes. Just learning and understanding all the features on your camera is a daunting task. Add to the...

Shooting

Digital Video Mixer Review:Datavideo SE-800

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$4,500 Datavideo Corporation 12300 - U East Washington Blvd. Whittier, CA 90606 (562) 696-2324 www.datavideo-tek.com The Datavideo SE-800 digital mixer allows you to switch between up to four analog or...