M. Klemme M. Klemme's K-Tek KE-US universal microphone suspension mount is designed for mounting standard shotgun mics on boom poles. It utilizes two of K-Tek's K-SUS polymer suspenders, both secured within an anodized aluminum frame. www.mklemme.com Suggested Retail Price: $60 Applied Ma

Two Platforms in One Apple has had various versions of Mac OS running on many different platforms. The first Macs (circa 1984) ran Motorola 680×0 processors. Ten years later, the hardware began to migrate to IBM and Motorola's PowerPC platform. Then, in 2001, the software began to migrate

Focus on the Future Portable DTE (direct-to-edit) recording has been around for a few years now, thanks to Focus Enhancements’ 2001 invention. Focus recently decided to stratify their offerings with a host of new camera-specific recorders. The original Focus FS-4 brought us a speedier DV workf

Producers have a myriad of choices to manipulate the viewer via the ear. Style, ability to alter the score and your budget will dictate which option or options work best for your project. The table is set with wine and roses. Candles create a soft glow as an attractive couple enters for their dinne

The Next Expendable Camcorder Pure Digital, the creator of the first one-use camcorder (see Zoom In, August 2005 Videomaker,) has released what they dub the "Point & Shoot Video Camcorder." It includes a 2X digital zoom and a 1.5" LCD display, and shoots 30 minutes of MPEG-4 video

Definitely Pro with 2.0 Adobe has reentered the Professional software based editing world with the new Premiere Pro 2.0; as a stand-alone program or as a tightly woven member of the Adobe Production Studio. The programmers and engineers at Adobe have been busy since the release of Premiere Pro 1.5 a

Part 1: Growth, your tools and your space. Step 1: Clean up your act! If a video editor's desk is a home-office catch-all, the video editor is not using space or time efficiently. Everyone wants to "edit like a pro." But what does that really mean? Beginning this month we'll loo

Indie Film/Video Legal Documents, 2nd Edition Indie Film/Video Legal Documents is packed with 56 examples of legal documents divided into the following six categories: Collaboration and Funding, Literary Submission and Sales, Production and Distribution, Music, Employment and Releases. Each can be o

Make sure your priceless family treasures don't get left behind. Here are some tips to turn your twentieth century celluloid into twenty-first century ones and zeros. My family has long been one filled with motion picture enthusiasts. Recently while picking through a trunk in the attic of the f

A basic understanding of the rules of composition will help you frame for maximum impact and ultimately enhance the outcome of your finished piece. One of the best films of the 1990s, in this author's opinion, was a modestly trendy action feature called Lon (known in the USA as The Professional

DV Caddie DV Caddie's DVCA-CK1 combines the DVCA-SR2 shoulder rest and DVCA-JR1 stabilizer. The combination is said to effectively distribute the weight of the camera equally between the shoulders, reducing fatigue. The contact points on the hip and shoulder are designed to increase stability w

Avid has reworked Pinnacle’s Liquid Edition (and before it was a Pinnacle product, it was FAST FSDV) into Avid Liquid 7, adding SmartSound integration, additional format support, more realtime effects and HDV editing. Preserved are the various pricing/equipment strata. Upgrades from Liquid Ed

Every week I have to leave my studio and go to the local grocery store to re-stock my client refrigerator with cold soft drinks. Every week I'd buy the same variety of products. Predictable. Routine. A no-brainer. Then one day I heard about a store–farther away–somewhat harder to r

LensPen The LensPen is available in several different variants for safely cleaning any kind of lenses, small screens, image sensors and wireless phones. They use a special carbon-based, non-liquid cleaning compound that is said not to spill or dry out, and all include flexible cleaning tips. (877)

If you're eager to leap into High Definition production, but prefer to limit your six figure purchases to real estate, then HDV is for you. In the same way that Mini DV revolutionized standard definition shooting, the not quite three-year-old HDV format is doing the same for Hi-Def. Affordable

Canon XL H1 Canon has finally released its first HDV camcorder, the XL H1. It boasts an interchangeable 20x HD zoom lens, multiple gamma curves, and 1080i video recording via 1440×1080 pixel CCDs. Uncompressed HD for broadcast is also available by using the HD-SDI output. Not enough? Like many

Magix Magix’ Movie Edit Pro 11 adds dual-layer DVD burning and DVD templates with 3D effects to its editing software. A Clean-Up Wizard removes unnecessary files from your projects, and the program now includes additional color correction tools as well. (888) 326-2449 www.magix.com Suggested

AE in 7th Heaven With After Effects 7.0, Adobe rolls out an impressive list of new features for its highly successful visual effects and compositing software. There are so many new features that it'd be foolish to list them all here; we refer you to the company's Web site for an exhaustive

More Than Elemental Adobe’s Premiere Elements 2.0 is far from simple. This robust, inexpensive “entry level” editing program is suitable not only for the non-technophobe beginning editor, but should keep the intermediate cutter content as well. Adobe brought together a decade and a

It’s about Time… The "tapeless" production future everyone has been dreaming about might be closer than you think. Direct-to-edit tapeless systems record digital video data directly to a portable hard drive — bypassing the need for videotape. The big benefit is no logging