Ever heard the saying “slow and steady wins the race?” While it’s great advice for those who are running marathons, it is just the opposite of the ideal experience for a motion graphic designer. When an artist is in that long sought creative “zone” of graphic design hav

Part One: Story Development Part Two: Funding, Financing and Budgeting Part Four: Distribution Shooting and Editing, the third instillation of our four-part series on How to Make a Documentary, covers production. Part one covered Story Development and part tw

The LaCie 4Big Quadra is an external storage device capable of holding up to 8TB of data. It comes in three flavors: 4TB($800), 6TB($1100), and 8TB($1400). For those looking for even more storage the 4Big Quadra can be chained together with up to four units making a max capacity of 32TB. Since a sta

Here is a new term for you: near-camera editing. This term is somewhat similar to in-camera editing which is a technique in video production of shooting video clips in the exact sequence that they will be seen on the screen. This sequence is presented to the viewers of the finished presentation (TV,

JVC not only makes camcorders, they also manufacture great decks and JVC’s SR-HD1500 is no exception. The JVC SR-HD1500 is a tapeless HD DVR combo deck that features a built-in Blu-ray recorder and an internal hard disk drive for simple HD and SD disc duplication. It includes authoring without

Time was that a video producer had to spend a lot of money on equipment then had to paint a lot of stuff a special blue or green to achieve acceptable chromakey effects. The producer also had to find and pay experts at lighting, shooting and editing the segment if she even thought about doing it for

Well, it was inevitable. The scientific journal Nature reports that scientists at the University of Arizona have announced that they have created the first 3-D holographic moving images. Anyone remember the “Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you are our only hope” line in Star Wars? Well, that is

Remember the good ol’ days of VHS tape (if you can call them that)? Well, it seems those days are back. Before you start to laugh or roll your eyes, it should be said that there won’t be any large, blocky, plastic cassettes to insert into a player. Rather, scientists from the EPFL school

Every once in awhile a product comes along that is both unique and useful. The ioSafe SoloPRO is the first external drive offering protection from water, fire, and hard drive failure. The drive comes with USB 2.0 and eSATA or USB 3.0. It is available in sizes from 1TB to 2TB. ioSafe also offers an i

As video editors, we have patiently waited (and waited and waited) for tools that are as quick as our clicks and keystrokes. But performance gains in past versions of Adobe’s Creative Suite have been mostly incremental. After testing one of the very latest pre-release versions, we can say that

1. Preparing a Professional Editing Suite You’re going to spend a great deal of time in your editing suite, so it’s important that you set this space up in a way that allows you to stay busy and focused. A spare room can make a good editing suite. Many people convert a spare bedroom in t

How good is your video art – really? Good enough to stand alongside the likes of Warhol, van Gogh and Picasso? Here’s your chance to find out. Ignored for years by artcuratorsand critics, still photo shooters and video creators alike are finally getting the recognition they deserve. Now

Netgear’s ReadyNAS is a new line of home storage devices that have a couple new features that could bring network storage to the masses. The ReadyNAS has the standard features you would expect from a network storage device, which includesredundancyand up to 12 terabytes of capacity. Whatsepara

In the ever increasingly complex world of company buyouts, Snapfish announced on Monday their purchase of Motionbox, a video platform for families and friends to share their memories online. To make things even more complex, this actually comes shortly after Motionb0x acquired the highly successful

Let me first start out by saying that if you haven’t yet heard, Videomaker is finally drawing on their more than 25 years of experience in video production and producing some new intensive workshops on topics ranging from Advanced Shooting to Green Screen and Special Effects. This is good news

How can you share these productions in their full HD glory? One answer, of course, is to export your HD video clips to play back directly on a PC, for example in QuickTime or Windows Media Video format. You can also now share online by uploading in HD to video sharing websites, usually in Flash or M

Multicam editing is perfect for producing video at live events, such as wedding, sporting events, recitals, graduations, plays, etc. Wherever there’s an opportunity to shoot a lot of footage in one continuous flow, and the event is rather large, (thus the need of multiple cameras to get good c

At its best, video editing is a detailed-oriented task that is tedious, takes up long hours alone and delivers extreme satisfaction that others dont often seem to appreciate. But we love it and wouldnt have it any other way. At its worst, video editing is a long drawn-out process full of technical f

Just recently, a team at the University of Tokyo found that using titanium oxide could allow optical disks to store 5,000 gigabytes of information. Honestly, that’s astounding. At the same time, a lot of people’s minds began buzzing with the implications. With these discs, Hollywood stud

We have all heard the phrase “you get what you pay for”, well that’s not the case with Cyberlink’s PowerDirector 8 you get a whole lot of features professional grade editing applications offer without the expensive price tag. Cyberlink offers PowerDirector 8 in two different