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Pause: Frequently Asked Questions

Are you familiar with the term "frequently asked questions?" Well, it's a bit more Internet jargon we all need to swallow. When you first...

Directing

Edit Points: A History of Videotape Editing

Videomaker

Video editing pioneers didn't have the simple pleasures we take for granted today. As you may already know, they didn't have things like time...

Audio

What Happened to Colored Buttons?

Videomaker

Black Button Blues Why does the consumer have to put up with these solid black units? I don't mind the black cases but why can't...

Audio

Sound Reasoning: Audio Tracks and Editing

Mike Wilhelm

All but a very few camcorders and VCRs can record audio signals along with video; that's pretty common knowledge. But do all camcorders record...

Audio

Nady 551 VR Wireless Video System Uses Transmitter

Videomaker

The Wireless Way Nady 551 VR Wireless Microphone System Nady Systems Inc. 6701 Bay Street Emeryville, CA 94608 ($1000) Nady has long held a reputation for supplying quality wireless microphone...

Editing

Video Editing Tutorial

Videomaker

After months of film-to-video transfers, junior high school play recording and dog show documentation, you finally have a chance to do your own thing....

Shooting

Desktop Video: Linear vs. nonlinear Video

Videomaker

There's no doubt about it--the good old days of linear editing are numbered. Digital video is like a bullet train hurtling down the track,...

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Quick Focus

Videomaker

This spring, Thomson Consumer Electronics will release the world's first commercial-free VCRs. The technology, developed by Arthur D. Little enterprises, will allow users to...

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What is Leased Access?

Videomaker

In the dark ages of TV there was only one way to get a show on the air. You had to sell it to...

Audio

Desktop Video: Computer-generated Video

Videomaker

Admit it. You've been drooling over those sexy computer video ads, the ones that claim to make your PC do everything but hold the...