EventDV articles from June 2009

EventDV archives from June 2009

Hot club of cowtown: re:frame austin.(the nonlinear editor)
June 1, 2009... On my first trip to Austin, Texas, in 1998, I visited a honky-tonk institution called The Broken Spoke. I made a great impression upon arrival when I saw that they had only one beer on draft and asked the 60-something bartender how the Pearl...

Match point.(studio time)
June 1, 2009... Our Studio Time usually profiles spotlight wedding and event videography studios that promise greatness, in due time. But sometimes, we are reminded that we would be remiss in overlooking studios that have come through on that promise already...

Red giant magic bullet quick looks 1.2.(in the studio)
June 1, 2009... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Color grading has become more and more important in wedding videography as productions have become increasingly sophisticated and filmlike. Magic Bullet Looks has been recognized by some of the top wedding videographers...

The EditMule trio.
June 1, 2009... EditMule www.editmule.com [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Final Cut Pro now has slightly more than 50% of the professional postproduction market and is an NLE to be reckoned with. But it's still not 100% perfect, as nothing in life ever is....

Make the most of your camera with new accessories.(gear & now)
June 1, 2009... Occasionally, it does happen--a small new gadget is priced higher than the big product it's meant to accessorize. Counterintuitive, perhaps, but when the accessory heralds a whole new technology, we might begin to understand the apparent...

Graphic thoughts: making low-rez images work at broadcast size.(tutorial)
June 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 'You can't always get what you want.' How true that statement is, whether I hear it from my radio as The Rolling Stones sing it, remember my mom saying it to me as a child, or, heck... hear a client say it to me...

NAB 2009: the 'best of' for the rest of us.
June 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It's that time of year again--time for me to choose the most important products from the 2009 NAB show for the event videography world and a few other neighboring planets. Before I plunge into the list, a word to all...

What's new in Sony Vegas Pro 9?
June 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] By the time you read this, Vegas Pro 9 will be readily available for download and purchase. As I write this, it's shortly after NAB, where version 9 was announced and demoed, and a couple of weeks before Sony made it...

Von training real weddings, volume 1.(continuing education)
June 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A few months ago, during the EventDV 25 voting, there was a thread on Chris Hurd's DVinfo.net forum in which Milwaukee-area wedding videographer Joel Peregrine, an EventDV 25 honoree himself, said that the real...

Upcoming educational events.
June 1, 2009... WEVA Expo 2009 WEVA International Hilton Orlando Orlando, FL Sept. 14-17, 2009 www.wevaexpo.com Re:Frame 2009 2.0 Re:Frame Collective San Francisco, CA October 2009 (details TBA) ...

Beautiful in blue.(vantage point)
June 1, 2009... The great storyteller William Gaff of Humanstory (www.humanstoryfilms.com) likes to pose the question, "What is story?" to open dialogue about the subject and to get filmmakers thinking. He encourages artists to reflect and discover answers for...

Converting and restoring old films.(op-ed)
June 1, 2009... While most video producers--especially those who shoot live events--focus on the present, some also enjoy bringing the past into today's technology. In addition to shooting weddings and other events, my company, A Generations Project of...

From our backyard to Hollywood.(cradle to grave)
June 1, 2009... I've often heard of fathers trying to live out their dreams through their children. In my case, I actually am--and my son seems none the worse for it. Through my college career, one of the things I wanted to do was to study filmmaking. For many...

It's not about the technology.(strictly business)
June 1, 2009... Remember when remote trucks were the size of school buses? Or when tape decks were bigger than two good-sized men standing next to one another? Many of us old-timers got excellent workouts just carrying around the equipment we needed to do our...

Deep thoughts on marketing videos.(the moving picture)
June 1, 2009... I recently gave a half-day seminar to the greater Wisconsin chapter of the Media Communications Association--International, and I devoted the last hour to creating effective marketing videos for businesses and other organizations. In pulling...