Video Systems November 2005
By Lee Rickwood
In the video production world, tales of music videos and other projects shot with ultra-low-budgets in some guy's apartment, using borrowed equipment, and edited using off-the-shelf software — aren't exactly new. Such stories might even make you might shrug your shoulders and politely stifle a yawn....
By Cynthia Wisehart, Editorial Director
By Cynthia Wisehart, Editorial Director
On page 47 of this issue, Jeff Sauer takes his annual look over the year's projector offerings in a range of sizes and resolutions. Noteworthy this year...
By D. W. Leitner
Of the first crop of professionalized HDV camcorders with 1/3in. sensors, only the latest, Canon's XL H1, can claim to have been created by a lens manufacturer. This is a meaningful distinction. With fixed-lens HDV camcorders retailing for less than $5,000 ...
By Steve Mullen
It is a decades-old dream of many filmmakers and videographers to use a camcorder to shoot progressive (24p or 25p), high-definition video that can be...
By Tom Patrick McAuliffe
When you ask award-winning professional filmmakers and video creators what separates the great presentation from the merely OK, one of the most popular...
By Bill Miller
Anyone who's ever shot a frame of video is probably familiar with three-point lighting. You know, key light, fill light, back light. But what about no-point...
Panasonic P2 aids low-cost camcorder...
Miniature transmitters
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IT enables new GV approach...
By Frank McMahon
Apple continues to refine and advance its motion graphics and compositing program Motion with version 2.0. Motion's hook is that just about everything happens in realtime, and for many media artists...
By Jan Ozer
As a video producer, I often plan my life around making my computers and programs work while I'm not there. I might ask DVD Studio Pro to encode and burn...
By Tom Patrick McAuliffe
Now, I don't want to start an opinion war or anything when it comes to discussing which is better, the PC or Apple Macintosh, that's a fairly easy thingto do. Each computer platform has its advantages and its ardent users...
Very capable, very cheap...
Converter for the road...
By Jeff Sauer
In the broad brush strokes of a whole year, it's easy to look at the front projector industry and surmise that not much has changed. Sure, prices have continued to come down, and that has expanded the market, but that is to be expected...
Welcome to the Video Systems 2006 Resource Guide. Click here to find manufacturers, dealers, distributors, and service providers in the video industry, all at your fingertips....
By Cody Holt
With its stately brick walls and lofty perch overlooking the Capitol building in the heart of Washington, D.C., the once-proud McKinley High School is hoping to revive its glorious past by embracing a digital future. Built in 1927, in the shadow of the city's historic monuments...
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Apartment + Musician + Laptop + HD Camera = Music Video
Shoot Review — Canon XL H1
Edit Review — Apple Motion 2
Edit Review — Microsoft Virtual PC 7
2005 Projector Roundup
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