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Directing

Keying DV Without Getting the Blue-screen Blues

Digital compositing may very well be the single most useful special effect of all-time. With the magic of the blue-screen, you can put your...

Shooting

Home Video Hints: The Seven Golden Composition Rules

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Composition is such a powerful visual tool that we give it a lot of attention here at Videomaker. It's such a complex art that...

Cameras

New Gear

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RCA Today The CC9390, a Mini DV camcorder from RCA, offers digital still-camera capability with a 16MB removable multimedia card, a 5x zoom microphone, night...

Editing

Test Bench: Editing Software – Sonic Foundry Vegas Video

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Sonic Foundry, a pioneer in audio editing software with products like ACID, SoundForge and Vegas Audio, has won our hearts again with its first...

Editing

Video Editing Software Review: MGI VideoWave 4

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As computer-based video editing has gained popularity, so too have simple and inexpensive editing programs designed for entry-level users. The fact that video editing...

Editing

Software For Video Editing: Adobe Premiere 6.0 Review

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Adobe Systems 345 Park Avenue San Jose, CA 95110-2704 (888) 724-4508 www.adobe.com Adobe Premiere has been the software of choice for many committed video editors, from the hobbyist to...

Editing

Video Capture Card Review: Pinnacle DV500 PLUS

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The DV500 from Pinnacle Systems has been the solution of choice for thousands of desktop video editors around the world. Pinnacle has always been...

Editing

Computer Editing: Making Moving Titles

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Making moving titles is easy with today's video editing software. You've used your editing software's character generator to make simple titles for your videos, now...

Audio

Sound Advice: Mixing Multiple Mikes

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Many of us have employed external microphones to isolate a single subject's voice and get better sound quality. This is as easy as plugging...

Editing

Test Bench:Adobe After Effects 5.0

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$1,499 Upgrade from Production Bundle 3.x and 4.0 ($299) Adobe Systems Inc. 345 Park Avenue San Jose, CA 95110-2704 (888) 724-4508 www.adobe.com Plenty of major software revisions are coming out of...