Every once in a while a well-produced video comes our way that we want to share with our readers. The Super List is one such project – it's a great video and all the more fascinating because it is the producer's first feature. Will Gallego attended a Videomaker workshop a few years ago

Whats Your [Video] Beef? Here’s your chance to “Speak Out”! To let the Videomaker World know how you feel about stupid OBVIOUS video errors that you notice time after time after time after, etc… Do you have a Top 5 Video Pet Peeves List on shooting, editing, composition, co

Whether it’s a XOOM, an Android, an iPad or an iPhone, with the explosion of high-quality video cameras in tablets and smartphones, video producers are using their mobile devices to create and distribute content once restricted to land-locked editing software. And as the capability becomes mo

Here’s a fact that everyone can agree on: losing data stinks. Without a good storage solution, however, video editors constantly find themselves playing a digital version of Jenga – one wrong click and all of a project’s data comes falling down. Especially when you’re working

Remember the ancient days of video editing, with the red render bar above the timeline marking huge sections that you couldn’t preview in real time? So you – get this – had to sit there and twiddle your thumbs while waiting for the timeline to be rendered. Those days now seem as ol

In a sad bit of news yesterday, it was reported that Steve Jobs, the driving force behind such companies as Apple and Pixar, died. The first to announce his death was his own company, which posted a picture of him on its website with a quote reading "Apple has lost a visionary and creative geni

According to scientists in Singapore – simple table salt – the kind you use to make your cooking palatable may be the secret to making hard drives with six times the capacity of those we have now. The reason? Apparently, standard hard drives have randomly arranged magnetic grains on thei

What if you could make professional grade video the first time you picked up a camera? Videomaker’s new free report “8 Tips for a Stellar First Video” will show you how to become a better videographer on your first shoot. Maybe you’ve wanted to make video for a while; maybe y

Videomaker workshops offer a great ways to get good video info fast. While Videomaker has lots of ways to learn about video — webinars, training DVDs, a monthly magazine, or can getting tips sent daily to your email — nothing quite compares to getting some face-time with a real live pers

Video editing for consumers is a tricky business, since the software needs to be easy to use for beginners, and yet have enough depth to allow enthusiasts to grow and experiment. There are simple tools to quickly trim clips and upload online, but if you want to make interesting and creative producti

You’ve just finished an important video project and your clients called to say that they want 250 copies the day after tomorrow. What do you do? There isn’t enough time for an online publishing house to have them printed, shipped and delivered before the deadline. You could start crankin

Video editing is both an art and a science. When both of these things are working right, video editing can be a wonderful creative process. However, when technical issues rear their ugly heads, things can take a turn for the worse. Discovering an incapability within your editing workflow can be extr

Video may well have killed the radio star, but until recently the internet had yet to kill the video star. Though plenty of music videos have been sold and watched through online portals such as Apple’s iTunes and YouTube, they have in reality, stayed the same. The only difference was that ins

There’s a good reason every staircase begins with a first step. Without that solid first foothold, it’s harder to reach the next one. Don’t believe it? Find a staircase and try jumping to every third step. Not easy, huh? Same thing goes for editing software, too. Most beginners nee

If you’ve got an aging DV or HDV camcorder whose heads are beginning to fail, or perhaps you simply want to step into the digital age, but your older camera still delivers great footage, then strapping a direct-capture-device onto that prized piece of video history may be exactly what the geri

Adobe released version 5 of its Creative Suite collection back in May 2010, built around fourteen core applications in design, Web, and production suites, spanning the creative workflow across print, web, video, interactive, and mobile. For video production work, CS5 emphasized performance to meet t

The Advanced Video Codec High Definition (AVCHD) format is one of the most popular video formats around. And, it’s one that we’ve written about quite a bit since it can be found in every corner of our video production craft, whether you’re a shooter or an editor. We can take a clos

Windows 8 will go where no Windows program has gone easily before to the tablet market. If you're thinking of buying a tablet in the future, you might have to wait just a wee bit longer, because Windows 8 promises to be a better interface for the tablet user but won't be out until probably n

The world today is all about speed. Faster cars, faster processors, are the norm in today’s society. That’s why it comes at no surprise that the WiGig Alliance, a group of wireless companies and professionals, just announced their intentions to use the 60 GHz spectrum to achieve data tra

DVGear has just released a new entry-level video editing computer, but don’t let the “entry-level” fool you, this computer delivers. With a Quad Core i7 processor, 16GB of ram, the new Nvidia Quadro 2000, and a multiple format memory card reader, all your video editing wants will b