EventDV articles from February 2006

EventDV archives from February 2006

Freeze frame.(the nonlinear editor)
February 1, 2006... today's technology "wars," like the other wars that saturate our senses in the news media, come to us as 90% spin, cleansed and calculated to mask what's really going on. The war of words that keeps Blu-ray and HD DVD in the headlines is...

Bottoms up.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the Editor)
February 1, 2006... As an event videographer as well as a full-time corporate video producer for a major financial company, I read Doug Graham's October 2005 MAIN EVENT column, "Bottom Feeders," with much interest. I think he was about 50% on and 50% off the...

HD tomorrow?(letters to the editor)(Letter to the Editor)
February 1, 2006... I really enjoy your magazine. I look forward to its arrival every month. The November 2005 HD TODAY column by Anthony Burokas was excellent. I shoot with the Sony PD-150/170 as well as the DSR-250. I totally relate to Anthony's desire for...

Studio time!(letters to the editor)(Letter to the Editor)
February 1, 2006... I read Lee Rickwood's GEAR & NOW article, "Routing and Distribution," in the November issue of EventDV. I am president of the television production club at my high school. Our school administration has finally reserved us some substantial space...

Adobe Production Studio: Premiere 2.0, Dynamic Link highlight new Adobe suite.(current events)
February 1, 2006... Sometimes the competition among software NLEs--and particularly those packaged and sold en suite--seems like a game of inches. Or maybe just a word game played by folks who lack verbal imagination. At least that's what I thought when Adobe...

GV Expo 1: HD camera and deck report.(GV Expo 1)
February 1, 2006... There have been plenty of small HD camcorders introduced over the last few months, and Government Video Expo in Washington, D.C., provided an opportunity to get my hands on several of them. JVC I appreciated that JVC had no fewer than...

GV Expo 2: an event videographer in King Arthur's Court.(GV Expo 2)
February 1, 2006... Why on earth would a wedding videographer spend three days at a convention aimed at video production and distribution for government agencies? For the same reason that Sir Edmund Hillary climbed Everest: because it's there, of course! GV...

Seasoned wedding videographers are the true wedding experts.(Op-Ed)
February 1, 2006... Al Ritondo (ptval@aol.com), who hosts Wedding Video Talk (www.wedvidtalk.com), the first podcast service for wedding videographers, with his wife, Kathy, was recently selected to the EVENTDV 25. For almost 30 years, wedding videographers...

Projectors, Part 1: projecting a positive image.(gear & now)
February 1, 2006... how and where your final product is consumed goes a long way in determining how it's received, and how much it's enjoyed. No, we're not talking food preparation here, but think about how presentation can make or break a nice meal. Now apply the...

Amen to that.(the amen corner)(Cover Story)
February 1, 2006... While I'm writing this column just before the close of 2005, it will be published halfway between two of Christendom's most famous holidays--Christmas and Easter--at about the time that the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) Convention is...

Making history.
February 1, 2006... Producing family histories and biographies can make personal event video a much more rewarding endeavor--for both your client and your own bottom line. But like all aspects of our work, it's becoming more challenging than ever. The clients we...

Show me the money.(the reel deal)
February 1, 2006... We would all agree that we are in business to make money. However, we don't all agree on when we should get our money. This article is for those videographers who would rather have their money sooner than later. In order to hold a date for...

Bio-pics.(studio time)
February 1, 2006... Hal Slifer doesn't think of himself as a videographer, but means no disrespect in saying so. For the past 25 years, he's certainly acted like a videographer, producing more than 1,200 wedding, bar/bat mitzvah, and other milestone event videos,...

The upscale wedding video: the reception: in Part 5 of our ongoing series on producing upscale wedding videos, we move on to the reception, and give you some suggestions on how you can make this event look like the Party of the Year ... even if it isn't!(Part 5)
February 1, 2006... Welcome back to our series of articles on producing the upscale wedding video. In Parts 1 and 2, we talked about segments that can be shot prior to the wedding day, or on the day of the wedding before the ceremony. Parts 3 and 4 discussed ways...

Battling burnout.(the main event)
February 1, 2006... Got a big editing backlog staring you in the face? Tired of spending every Saturday away from the family, shooting weddings? Weary of the endless technology-upgrade treadmill? Well, you're not alone. Wedding and event video is a high-stress...

Success secrets for your Web site.(strictly business)
February 1, 2006... the World Wide Web turns Sweet 16 this year--and what a tiger it has turned out to be! Internet surfing has replaced watching TV as the "preferred entertainment" for adults. But it's much more than entertainment, such as looking for...

Creating masks in Adobe after effects.(tutorial)
February 1, 2006... In wedding and event videography we have many opportunities to express our creativity, and one of them is by the use of masks. Masks are outlines, or paths, that modify a layer's Alpha Channel. In other words, masks can "cut" parts of your...

How many is enough?(class act)
February 1, 2006... have you noticed that the world of postproduction is shrinking? As of December 10, 2005, there had been at least four major production company mergers or acquisitions. In addition, a couple of editing companies went belly-up. Should we be...

Proactively building a contact list.(executive decisions)
February 1, 2006... i've done some of my-best proactive planning as a corporate video producer for the price of a cup of coffee. OK, maybe for the price of a few cups of coffee, since the get-togethers I've had with freelance production pros have involved more...

Ulead PhotoImpact 11.
February 1, 2006... Ulead recently released PhotoImpact 11, the latest version of their complete image editing suite, and it's great. But then I wouldn't have expected anything else. I've been a devotee of PhotoImpact since version 3. I've long been impressed with...

Unsung heroes.(the moving picture)
February 1, 2006... in our business, you're only as good as the tools you can bring to bear on the wide variety of tasks we perform. I write mostly about major tools like computers, NLEs, and DVD authoring programs; here I want to identify some of the smaller,...