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How to select the right camcorders and accessories. Buying Guides
How to Buy a Camcorder - There are a plethora of differing technologies to pick from as well as a bewildering assortment of features and capabilities that need to be examined. It is not easy. Here is a guide to what you need to know in order to buy the right kind of camcorder for you, your business and your family
Comparison of the Top Small Shoot & Share Internet Video camcorders - Flip Video minoHD, DXG-579V HD, Kodak Zx1, Sony Webbie HD MHS-PM1, and Aiptek A-HD
Video Accessories - for your camcorder
What video and photo accessories do you really need to buy and what is a waste of your money?
Tips for Buying an Underwater Camera & Camcorder - for SAFELY shooting video at the Beach, Snorkeling and Water Sports
Special deals and Rebates on Prosumer & Broadcast Video Cameras and Camcorders
Canon Vixia HF10 vs. Sony HandyCam HDR-CX7 As seen on CNET TV Prizefight: Flash-based HD camcorders - Brian Tong brings you a showdown between two of the top flash-based consumer high-definition cameras. Which camcorder is best? Watch this video
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Canon's new three-CCD HD camcorders – the XH A1 and XH G1 models - provide broadcasters, cinematographers and production facilities with a full line of professional, high quality, low cost HD solutions. Prosumers and Event videographers with tight budgets will appreciate Canon's flexible, powerful and feature rich XH A1 and XH G1 HD camcorders. Whether on set, in the field, or shooting a feature film, these two camcorders offer selectable frame rates and deliver stunning 1080i HD video. more
Flip Video Compact Digital Video camcorder - Read our review of the new Flip Video Ultra HD - Tiny High Definition Camcorder that fits into your pocket - now records TWO hours of HD internet video! Bigger screen and easier to use!
High Definition Camcorder - Sony
Professional and Broadcast Camcorders
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Audio
Music & Sound - Audio Post Production, Microphones, Tips and Tricks and Legal Matters
Pro Audio Terms - Glossary
The Lone Videographer
Record professional sound without a dedicated sound engineer How to record audio using a boompole and a shotgun microphone with a video camera when you are working alone.
Do you really know know to use camera mounted mikes on your pro camcorder? Check out this Guide to Camera-Mounted Wireless Microphone Systems
Attaching multiple wireless microphones to a video camera can be a daunting prospect for the uninitiated. This guide was created to show you the ins and outs of using these systems successfully with your video camera.
Using Accessories to Improve the Audio from Built-in Camcorder Mics - How to achieve professional sound with consumer camcorders
Audio Tools for Video Editing - by Doug Dixon - These applications provide useful answers for video editors, whether or not you are an audio expert.
How to do Voice-Overs - Professional Tips & Techniques
XLR Adapter boxes enable you to use pro mikes with your camcorder
The Adventures of Audio Post for Film - All about low budget - high quality audio post production and ADR for video. Includes Digidesign 003 Rack, Pro Tools LE 7.4, Mac OS X 10.4.11, Dynaudio Acoustics BM6A powered speakers, Digidesign Pro Tools LE 8, ADR, Digidesign Music Production Toolkit 2, Smack LE, Hybrid, and iZotope RX. Read the article
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Video Editing
Looking for a great video editing package? Roxio Creator 2010 is Roxio’s flagship suite of digital media applications -- 15 applications to handle data, video, music & images
Get Ready to Edit Your Digital Video Production - Edit Like a Pro
MotionDSP vReveal Video Enhancement Software
by Douglas Dixon - vReveal is a professional video enhancement and color correction solution developed for prosumers and consumers - easy to use and very affordable
What's New and improved with the latest version of Apple's Final Cut Studio
Apple has announced and released an updated Final Cut Studio, with new versions of Final Cut Pro 7, Motion 4, Soundtrack Pro 3, Color 1.5, and Compressor 3.5 (www.apple.com/finalcutstudio). The price has dropped by $300 to $999, and the upgrade is $299. Read the article
Real World Editing Tips - How to Edit Your Digital Video Production
Question for Filmmakers - Should You Edit Your Own Projects?
Sometimes you want to capture a simple video and audio scene directly to your computer's hard drive rather than capturing it to tape or to camera storage media, and then going through the capture and transfer process. Here is a cool little tutorial from Adobe about how to use Adobe Premiere to capture video directly to your hard drive. If you don't have a good web cam or want to get better quality than you can get with a web cam, it makes sense to use your video camcorder to shoot simple talking head videos.
Guide to Time Code for Shooting on Location Video - Time-code is the reference point on the tape or hard disk that follows right through the whole production process. Lots of people rely on it and if it goes wrong, becomes nonsequential, or jumps, then it affects viewing, off-line editing, graphics, sound dubs, and on-line editing and causes an awful lot of bad language from video editors. more
How to edit using Adobe Premiere Elements 4 and Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 - A guide for the Creative Video Maker
The Plug-In Pavilion - The editor's tools: 3D compositing, titling, FX creation, lighting, color-correction and more with BorisFX, Graffiti 5.1, Red 4, and Boris Blue 2.
How to preview HDV in Realtime - Many video producers are switching from SD to HDV and are finding out that their current systems are unable to preview out to an external monitor. There are several hardware solutions on the market that can make an HDV workflow run as smooth as your existing SD system. This article explores the various options for creating a real-time preview out on either a Mac or PC with either a PCI Express or external solution. more
How to convert animated GIF files into Flash with WildPresenter
This tutorial will show you how to convert animated GIF files into Flash with WildPresenter. The default WildPresenter image importer imports GIF files (and other image files) as a single frame. more
Are you working with Adobe Premiere Pro and need more info about how to author and make DVDs? checkout this video tutorial. Creative Cow leader Aanarav Sareen takes users through the new DVD authoring capabilities of Premiere Pro 2.0. While Premiere Pro 2 may not replace Encore DVD, for many tasks it is a fast and powerful way to get client previews and many other jobs, done quickly with a professional look and feel. Here's how in just a few minutes...
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AfterEffects Tutorial - Make Scary Type
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Horror Text on the Wall - Part 1 - In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to make ''Horror Movie'' style text appear on a wall
Horror Text on the Wall - Part 2 - In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to make the horror text from part 1 run down the wall slightly, as if bleeding.
FREE Adobe CS3 Instructional Videos, Books and Tutorials - Learn About PhotoShop, Adobe CS3, Premiere Pro, Illustrator CS3, Flash CS3, Film Editing, Adobe Media Player, etc.
High-Definition Editing with HDV
Edit HDV with Sony Vegas
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Video Compression
How to Compress Your Video for YouTube - The Guide to Making Your Uploaded Videos Look Good on YouTube
The File Interchange Handbook - The authoritative work on file formats for global film and television
Compression and Streaming
Importance of Bandwidth
Do you need to quickly convert downloaded video for perfect playback on devices other than your PC? Test whether your ISP throttles BitTorrent traffic? Save Internet video streams your hard drive? Read this piece to learn how to do all that - and much more.
All About DivX for video compression
Are you thinking of getting into high definition video? Checkout this tutorial from Microsoft about how to produce a high definition Windows Media file
Wildform announced the release of the Flix Flash Video Exporter Component for Windows that enables many existing video applications to export Wildform’s high quality FLV and SWF Flash video formats
If you are a video producer or film maker, you might want to check out The WebVideoZone (www.WebVideoZone.com). This is a members only resource that offers tools, tips and tutorials to help businesses get better results with internet video. One of the most popular features is their Web Video Player, an FLV video player that makes it easy for anyone to add interactive web video to any site.
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Compact portable HD from Panasonic
The new Panasonic AG-HMR10 AVCCAM HD compact field recorder/player and the AG-HCK10 compact, multi-purpose 3-MOS HD camera head, are versatile additions to the company’s AVCCAM line of professional solid-state high definition products.
The AG-HMR10 handheld recorder and the AG-HCK10 compact camera head will be available at suggested list prices of $2,650 and $2,100, respectively. More Details
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