EventDV articles from December 2006

EventDV archives from December 2006

Douglas Spotted Eagle's: HDV: What You Need to Know (2nd ed.).
December 1, 2006... In mid-2006, VASST published the second edition of Douglas Spotted Eagle's HDV: What You Need to Know (this time subtitled The Complete Guide), and it's a landmark release for anyone with HDV ambitions. As one of the principals of VASST and...

Curiosity notwithstanding ...(letters to the editor)(Letter to the editor)
December 1, 2006... I just received the September issue of EventDV, and several of the comments Stephen F. Nathans made regarding the EventDV reader survey results in his NONLINEAR EDITOR column, "Curiosity and the Cat," prompted me to reply. I was unable to...

Survey says ...(letters to the editor)(Letter to the editor)
December 1, 2006... Video production has always been race to catch up with technology. Clients want the latest and greatest, and over the long term will migrate to those who can supply it, regardless of past performance. Go into Costco and Best Buy. What sets...

Can we afford video?(letters to the editor)(Letter to the editor)
December 1, 2006... Thank you, Tim Siglin, for the AMEN CORNER column. Now, please follow up your October column, "Do We Need Video? Questions for Small Houses of Worship," with an overview of the expense, personnel, and/or time required to implement video...

A few random thoughts.(the main event)
December 1, 2006... This month, I have a number of things on my mind. Some of them are ideas that would take more space than I have here to explore fully, and others are too short to fill a column on their own. Maybe you'll find a nugget or two in this random...

Remote camera controls and systems.(gear & now)
December 1, 2006... It seems to me like the next remote control device that comes along should do a lot more than control a camera. As producer, director, DP, editor, small-business owner, marketer, and sales rep all rolled into one, professional event...

Treasure hunter.(studio time)
December 1, 2006... Some 1,300 miles (and 22 years) separate Luis Ponce from his hometown of Guadalajara, Mexico, but the 37-year-old videographer has long since made a new home--and a name--for himself in Southern California. His story begins with a casual...

Let there be light.(the reel deal)
December 1, 2006... During my initial meeting with potential brides, they sometimes bring up the issue of lights. The biggest complaint I get from brides is that they "don't want a bright light in anyone's face" at the wedding. They are relieved when I tell them I...

Viral marketing.(what a concept)
December 1, 2006... Do you know Peggy and Steve? If you're a wedding and event videographer, chances are these names sound familiar. Like me, you were probably one of the thousands of event video producers wowed by the "Save The Date" movie trailer that the couple...

Cut lines: editing a multiclip with multitrack sound.(final cut pro tutorial)
December 1, 2006... Hello FCP editors! This is the final installment of our inaugural 2006 run of Cut Lines. I started this column with the basics and have been broadening our foundation ever since. You should be well-schooled in the fundamentals by now....

Warping time with Avid Liquid Timewarp Part one.(tutorial)
December 1, 2006... Many times in an editor's career, speeding up or slowing down video footage is a necessity, whether to add grandeur to a certain shot with elegant, carefully placed slo-mo, or just to add some sped-up levity to a production, Keystone...

The gadget bag.
December 1, 2006... A recent commercial shoot required me to videotape a number of crushed stone driveways, some in excess of a quarter mile long. Although there are a number of ways to capture this kind of footage, most require expensive car-mounted jibs or...

HDV hits its stride.
December 1, 2006... More cameras, more features, more choices--today's HDV market is a rich and varied one, thanks to mid-2005 entries from Sony, Canon, and JVC that established HDV as the prosumer's choice for HD video acquisition, and a slew of summer 2006...

Best of 2006 editors' & columnists' picks.
December 1, 2006... Colson Whitehead's first novel, The Intuitionist, occupies the oddly insular world of elevator inspectors in a mythical mid-century New York that has recently become a vertical city, dominated by towers and skyscrapers. The inspectors are...

Two for one: planning a biography video.(making history)
December 1, 2006... When I produce a biography video, I charge the client one price, but I give them two different videos: Video A, the short entertainment video that will be shown in front of friends and family, and Video B, which contains all the edited...

Promotion through postcards.(strictly business)
December 1, 2006... I like receiving postcards. They usually have a big, eye-catching photo or illustration to enjoy, and the information they convey is short and to the point: "Having a great time. Don't forget to feed the dog." These very same qualities--an...

proDAD Heroglyph Rapid 2.6.
December 1, 2006... SYNOPSIS: I found proDAD's Heroglyph Rapid 2.6 to be a very capable tool for animated text effects. With minimal effort, I was able to create a number of complicated animated graphics that would have been difficult to produce in other...

Scenalyzer Live 4.0.
December 1, 2006... Have you ever wanted to capture DV footage but found your NLE's capture utility too limited to do what you needed? If this has ever happened to you, check out Scenalyzer Live. With Scenalyzer Live, developer Andreas Winter has created a small,...

DIY marketing.(the inside story)
December 1, 2006... I talk to a great number of people when I conduct my workshops across the country, and whenever the topic of marketing arises, the near-universal response is that marketing is just about advertising or sales. For me, that definition is...

Sleep in heavenly peace ... after the holidays.(the amen corner)
December 1, 2006... The holidays are upon us, and for event videographers who also volunteer at their chosen house of worship (or those who work full-time in video ministries but moonlight on the side), this is one of the busiest times of the year. I'm writing...

Digital juice's wedding toolkits.(the moving picture)
December 1, 2006... If you reflect back on your career as a video producer, you'll recognize several points in time where your production quality increased exponentially: making the jump to DV from analog; your first 3-CCD camcorder; your first multicamera shoot....