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Video Production Equipment Choices

Whether you're the designated family videomaker or an experienced video professional, you'll come to a point where you have projects that require an upgrade...

Sima Brings Low Cost Sensibilities to Controlled Editing

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...

Burning, Bleeding, Floating, and Flying: Simple, Low-cost Special Effects

Long ago, in a land far, far away from Hollywood, a young boy saw a movie. It was nothing memorable-- one of those Saturday afternoon...

How to Write a Script: Putting Words to Work in Your Videos

As creative individuals, we videomakers must wage a constant war between our artistic instincts and our need for order and direction. While it would...

Edit Points: Picking a Protocol

If you've spent any time looking at editing systems, you may have come across terms like serial data transfer, Control-L, Control-M and ViSCA. They...

Video Cleaning Products: Maintain Your Gear To Maintain Your Sanity

Slowly, you remove the first raw footage tape from its case. You ever-so-gently slide it into the VCR. Touching "play" on the remote, you...

Videography Business: Making Money With Video

As much as you may like creating video, it just isn't the same if you don't make money while doing so. In fact, they...

A Close Look at Viewfinders

It's hard to imagine a camcorder without some kind of viewfinder. Some low-cost, no-frill camcorders come equipped with a simple optical viewfinder, which functions...

Video Business Ideas: The Local Fashion Show

Here's an idea for a money-making opportunity that few people have pursued. When I first learned that leased cable access allowed video producers to...

New Beginner’s Editing Controller Works without Wires

Wireless Wonder Every video pro was once a beginner, and one of the first things beginners learn as their interest begins to grow is that...

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