EventDV articles from November 2005

EventDV archives from November 2005

High school confidential.(the nonlinear editor)
November 1, 2005... Because I went to a high school that was too small to have a football team, I feel like I missed out on some essential element of the American experience. Ask anyone who's experienced that hour-long drama of local pride, rivalry, and...

HD & HDV @ IBC.(current events)
November 1, 2005... As I write this, IBC in Europe has just passed and the number of HDV choices has grown significantly. HDV started in 2003 as a two-horse race that barely got out of the gate, with two camcorders from the same manufacturer, JVC, that failed to...

Marketing with Digital Video, 2nd Ed., Hal Landen.
November 1, 2005... Marketing with Digital Video, 2nd Ed., Hal Landen Oak Tree Press, 2005, $19.95 It's not too often that a book written for the absolute beginner in a subject also turns out to be a useful text for the seasoned professional, but...

Funeral Videos: Business Everlasting: Alan Naumann, Memory Vision Productions.(continuing education)
November 1, 2005... Funeral Videos: Business Everlasting Alan Naumann, Memory Vision Productions Alan Naumann has been shooting funeral and other types of video in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area for 17 years. These days, he does 200-plus funerals per year,...

What's in a name?(the real deal)
November 1, 2005... What's in a name? Everything! As someone with a 13-letter surname, I'm always asked to spell my last name. Your business name shouldn't be so complicated. How and why did you pick your company name? For sentimental reasons? Because you...

Battle of the software NLEs: slide shows, rendering, and conclusions Part 4.
November 1, 2005... The success of the Ken Burns documentaries like The Civil War and Baseball--which were composed largely of still images animated via pan-and-zoom techniques--combined with the pervasiveness of digital cameras, makes high-quality slideshow...

Don't let the green grass fool you.(hd today)
November 1, 2005... There are some who have jumped from DV to HDV for event video. Having made the transition to HDV myself, I'll tell you about the view from over here. I used to use Sony's compact PD-150 and later moved up to a Sony DSR-250 for my main...

Routing and distribution.(gear & now)
November 1, 2005... Unless you're one of those videographers who just loves crawling around on hands and knees, searching in the shadows for that one invaluable cable that will actually get your editing suite up and running, you'll want to think about using a...

Producing memorial tribute videos: a memorial tribute video is, in essence, a video eulogy, a photo montage created from pictures provided by family members and shown at the memorial service. Succeeding in memorial video means developing a unique business model--working with extremely short turnaround times, booking clients almost exclusively through funeral homes--but it also provides steady and profitable work.(event)
November 1, 2005... When I tell people that 70 percent of my income as a videographer comes from videos created for funerals, they almost always ask, "Isn't that morbid?" I reply that it is, indeed, sad. However, it's also very rewarding. The gratitude of the...

Selling the experience.(the inside story)
November 1, 2005... In the previous installments of THE INSIDE STORY, we've talked about the real "nuts and bolts" of producing a Storyteller Wedding Biography. The final piece of the puzzle is selling the experience to your potential clients. After all, without a...

Storyboards: an authorized biography: although the applicability of storyboarding to the planned-ahead world of corporate videography may be more obvious, many event videographers shoot at least some scenes over which they have considerable control, and in those cases they reap the benefits of storyboards drawn out in advance.(event)
November 1, 2005... Check out the special features of a Hollywood DVD or read the advertising copy for a storyboarding program like FrameForge 3D, and you'll understand the glossy public persona of storyboards. Beautifully drawn--or rendered in 3D--and...

Masters of none.(class act)
November 1, 2005... I never really got in to collecting comics, but I did like the heroes who had specific special powers: X-Men, the Avengers, and the Green Lantern from the League of Justice. None of the heroes were expected to do it all. Each one had unique...

PixelPops Popdrops Vol. 1 & 2.
November 1, 2005... When I'm finishing up a video for a client, one of the important steps in the process is to design the DVD menus. When the DVD is done, I still have to design and print the disc label and the "cover art" of the package insert. Like most...

ShowStoppersFX Editing Essentials and Wedding Collections 1-3.
November 1, 2005... We tend to think of buyout music and motion backgrounds as things apart for a couple of reasons. One is that the stock footage video market is more often considered in parallel with the royalty-free music market, but in truth videographers are...

Echoes from the backyard.
November 1, 2005... Dear DJ, I'm having a problem with payments. On the advice of others, I've established a payment schedule where I'm paid in full before the wedding, but I'm getting a lot of resistance with the final payment, due two weeks before the...

The art of the real-time edit.(the moving picture)
November 1, 2005... One of my favorite EventDV articles of the last year is Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen's piece on "The Art of the Wedding-Day Edit" (February, pp. 20-24). It offers practical suggestions from three experienced pros on editing wedding videos fast...