EventDV articles from July 2007

EventDV archives from July 2007

One perfect storm.(the nonlinear editor)
July 1, 2007... While reading One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding, Rebecca Mead's unbridled attack on the American wedding industry, I was often reminded of the pivotal scene in Oliver Stone's Nixon, when the president (in a re-imagined...

Sounds like a good video to me.(stage to screen)
July 1, 2007... As video professionals, we spend a lot of time practicing the art of shooting good video. We have steadicams, DV rigs, and Glidecams to make our handheld video more stable; jibs, trucks, and dollies to achieve multi-axis motion; and wide-angle...

Cape crusaders.(studio time)
July 1, 2007... Cape Town videographers Howard and Sam Neill aren't South African natives--they were actually born in Zimbabwe (nee Rhodesia) and met and married there in the late 1960s--but they've called their adopted country home for 31 years. "We have a...

Uses and requirements of legal videography.(court dv)
July 1, 2007... Historically, video has been used mostly by trial attorneys; however, it can be used effectively by attorneys in almost every phase of law. I described one such example in last month's column ("Opportunities in Legal Videography," p. 23) with...

Impromptu hockey gold.(stage to screen)
July 1, 2007... Ice hockey is a big deal in Canada. I grew up watching the NHL's Winnipeg Jets. Although they had some talented future Hall of Fame players, they were never able to put together a championship team. This didn't stop me from cheering for them,...

Diodes emit options for on-camera lighting.(gear & now)
July 1, 2007... Light-emitting diode (LED) technology is opening up creative options for professional video lighting, offering greater punch, cooler operation, enhanced control, and adjustable color temperature output. On-camera LEDs are known to be...

Creating Blu-ray Discs in Adobe Encore CS3.(tutorial)
July 1, 2007... With the variety of new, lower-cost HDV video cameras on the market today, just about any event videographer can afford to shoot in high definition. Recent versions of popular NLEs have been upgraded to handle HDV editing, and most new editing...

Guided tour: Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium.
July 1, 2007... Cover Story In early May I was treated, along with other trainers, to a fabulous introduction to Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium, held at Adobe's headquarters in San Jose, California. I left greatly impressed by the Production...

YouTube generation: creating viral videos via user-generated content sites.
July 1, 2007... User-generated content (UGC) sites such as YouTube and MySpace can provide distribution channels for videographers and help videographers market their services. Most of the sites let you post videos at no charge, and they allow you to include...

Matrox DualHead2Go.
July 1, 2007... Matrox DualHead2Go SYNOPSIS: The Matrox DualHead2Go is an excellent value for videographers and others who use laptops for editing and need to expand their monitor real estate. It installs easily and supports a range of laptops and...

ProDAD Vitascene.
July 1, 2007... ProDAD Vitascene SYNOPSIS: The transitions and effects provided in Vitascene are highly unique and very applicable to a variety of events, including weddings, ballets, and other artistic productions. Many effects would apply equally...

Plextor PX-B900A Blu-ray Disc Recorder.
July 1, 2007... Plextor PX-B900A Blu-ray Disc Recorder SYNOPSIS: Plextor has put together a respectable Blu-ray Disc burning package. For similar money to Pioneer's BDR-101A, the PX-B900A offers more features including dual-layer BD-R/RE burning,...

To blog or not to blog?(strictly business)
July 1, 2007... Blogs are the hot thing right now and frankly, until recently, I just couldn't figure out why. Sure, it's kind of fun to read my stepdaughters' blogs on MySpace and LiveJournal. But it seemed to me that a lot of videographers are blogging...

Bundle up(grades) for the summer.(the amen corner)
July 1, 2007... By the time you read this column, July will be upon us, bringing picnics, fireworks, and--if, like me, you grew up in a small town--a chance to ride the ladder truck or climb a 20-foot pole and grab money from the top. July also brings...

Sell it in post: the post-wedding meeting.(the main event)
July 1, 2007... For each wedding I do, conduct a meeting with the bride about two weeks after the wedding for three main reasons. The first is to prevent potential problems before they happen. The second is to help the bride deal better with the delivery time....

High time to go HD?(hd today)
July 1, 2007... This winter, I attended a few local professional videographer meetings, and then the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) annual convention in Las Vegas. Having some time to reflect on what I've seen, I've noticed a dichotomy that...

In between days.(the moving picture)
July 1, 2007... Between the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show in Las Vegas, an editor's workshop with Adobe in San Jose, and Streaming Media East in New York City, April and May brought lots of product announcements and video-related news. While...