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Management

Directing to Edit

As long as you edit your own shows, you can shoot any kind of footage you like, but if another editor handles post production...

Lighting Design

Light Source: Hard Light, Soft Light

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Whether you're lighting a video with ten kilobucks worth of hi-tech hardware or making do with available light, you have two basic ways to...

Editing

Green Screen Software Review: Serious Magic Visual Communicator Pro

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$350 Serious Magic 2870-B Gold Tailings Court Rancho Cordova, CA 95670 (916) 859-0100 www.seriousmagic.com Visual Communicator Pro is automatic green screen software software. Although it was originally designed for...

Profitmaking

Is 24P for Me?

Videomaker

The Panasonic AG-DVX100 is a great camera. When we reviewed it, we loved the lens and the customization options. And, more importantly, we shot...

Lighting

Light Source: Mop Up That Spill!

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Just as a weed is any plant, however pretty, that sprouts where you don't want it, spill is any light that falls where it...

Audio

Sound Advice: Editing Narration

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Eons ago (that's about five years or so in computer years) audio engineers recorded and edited narration on tape. It was tedious, caused eyestrain...

Directing

Home Video Hints: Watch Your Language!

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The guy yelling "Cut!" usually has his own chair, gets to boss people around and generally is able to make other people believe he...

Directing

Secrets of Video Training: We Betray the Instructional Designer’s Guild

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Instead of dividing time eras into BC and AD, instructional designers could use BP and AP instead, meaning Before PowerPoint or After PowerPoint. Once,...

Cameras

More Optical Zoom in Canon’s Elura 50 Mini camcorder

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Canon Ships Elura 50 Mini DV Camcorder Canon's Elura 50 Mini DV camcorder, which shipped in May, features a 10x optical zoom lens and dual...

Shooting

Viewfinder: The History of the Image

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The camcorder is a relatively new invention (if you can call it that). Like most technological developments, one person did not invent it on...