What do you do when a hummingbird builds a new nest on your clothesline? Well, if you're an ordinary Joe with a camcorder, you take some shaky hand-held footage of it and post it to YouTube. But if you're a video creator, you make a movie out of it, complete with DVD that you can sell o

Reprinted from a Sony press release The new Vegas Pro 9 collection is here and ready to revolutionize the video and broadcast production world. Vegas Pro 9 software features a new customizable interface for optimized viewing and enhanced usability, as well as significant improvements for professiona

From a Blastwave FX press release: Blastwave FX (www.blastwavefx.com), the HD sound effects label, today announced its new website which now features 423 downloadable sound effects packs. Keeping up with the demand for content that is available at the click of a button, Blastwave FX offers packaged

Reprinted from a Super Talent Technology press release. Super Talent Technology today launched a new line of MasterDrive SX SSDs that incorporate 128MB of DRAM cache and reach new performance levels in high performance laptops. The MasterDrive SX is based on an advanced new 8-channel controller and

Reprinted from an Avid press release Avid announced today that its wide array of audio and video solutions meet the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) funding guidelines for education and training. Configured to address the respective skill and grade level of students ranging from

A great way to improve your skills as a filmmaker is to watch the best filmmakers do what they do best-make films. Making films is an art form that takes a great deal of time to master. Unlike many art forms, it’s fairly easy to experience the best masterpieces. You won’t need to travel

Most videographers use their camcorder’s auto white balance or manually set the white balance. So fixing white balance in post is rarely necessary, and, in any case, it is mindlessly easy to do. So why do professional non-linear video editors (NLEs) have so many tonal and color-correction tool

It’s time to do it. Take that plunge. Your vacation videos are waiting. For the novice who’s ready to jump in and learn video editing for the first time, here are some tips to help you along the way. Shooting and editing your own video, is becoming easier and easier. Having a really go

HP’s Laptop Workstation Solution Originally, the word laptop and video editing would never go together. Laptop graphics were usually onboard, used shared memory, and had limited capabilities. Recently though, NVIDIA and ATI have made high-end video editing cards that fit into a laptop’s

Serif MoviePlus x3 Editing for newbies can be a headache. Shortcuts are hard to understand, simple tasks seem difficult, and advanced techniques are just plain impossible. Enter Serif’s MoviePlus X3, an entry level editing program that just makes it plain old easy! With its tutorials, innovati

Today is the first day of the 2009 Apple World Wide Developer Conference, which runs through Friday at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. As a result, there are a few new press releases that crossed our desk. We are now happy to present a roundup of the most interesting. The aluminum MacBook has

According to a recent Nielsen poll, more Americans than ever are plopping down in front of the TV for their entertainment. Variety Magazine, a publication that watches the film industry, TV programming and trends, reports the poll found that the average viewer is spending more time watching programm

To determine whether or not you need to use multicam editing features, there are some considerations worth making. Many professional video editing applications have built-in multicam editing functions. At its core, any multi-layer video editing application can edit multicam footage; however, itR

If you create video with the idea of generating income on a local level, heres a look at how some people will receive their local news soon. Inergize Digital and DoApp have created a program for iPhone/iPod touch applications that distribute news, weather and video from local television stations The

Tech-On! is reporting that a new resistive touch panel that enables multi-point detection for up to nine points, was put on display by Touchpanel Laboratories. The technology seems very impressive, and seems to also be able to navigate around a curved surface. Touchpanel Laboratories also demonstra

A British taxi dispatcher is getting a lot of attention at the international Cannes Festival in France this week with his amazingly low-budget movie about zombies, of all subjects. How low budget? Try $70. Director Marc Price begged and borrowed most of the gear to make his movie, “Colin”

View all of the best consumer video production products of 2009, selected by the editors of Videomaker Woah-oh-ohh, it’s MAGIX! We all want to edit like professionals; however, it’s a lot harder for some of us than for others. It’s not easy to pick up an editing program and start c

Anyone who aspires to make the Next Great Masterpiece needs to watch lots of movies in every genre that are NOT box office hits. There's nothing wrong with the movies released in popular theater houses, but they were selected by distributors who think they can make a good amount of money on them

Videomaker hosted a collection of 15 video enthusiasts this past weekend to our offices in Northern California for our popular Videomaker Basic Production workshop. After a series of lectures on the basics of video production that included shooting, lighting and editing techniques, we broke the clas

Your travel video is almost complete, but needs that last element to show off your adventures. No Indiana Jones movie would be complete until you have fun creating an animated airplane-crossing-the-world map. So, you've decided to come to one of the popular video workshops at our offices in Nor