Award-winning producer Shawn Lam looks at the art and science of stage lighting and the challenges of making lighting designed for performance work for video. He also discusses the meat-and-potatoes things you need to know for microphone selection and successful live-recorded conference audio.
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Posted 16 Jan 2012
Whether you're shooting a conference, a convention, or an AGM, the setup of the shoot is one of the most important parts of the production process. It's the step where you select the equipment, establish your camera positions, lay your cables, and check and recheck your audio and lighting.
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Posted 15 Jan 2012
For Altair and humanstory, the name of the game in college sports web shows is storytelling, and their theme-driven style is getting them lucrative gigs with top college programs.
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Posted 11 Jan 2012
For any professional online video producer who is looking to jump into corporate work, producing corporate meeting highlights is a great way to start. Here Edit 1 Media's Chris Randall explains how producing videos for Aegis Living's annual corporate meetings has grown in complexity and profitability over the years.
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Posted 11 Jan 2012
Sonnet has crafted a beautiful solution for rapid footage offload that gives your laptop far more connectivity, power, and capability than ever before. The system is solid, and in pure professional parlance, it does what it says it can do. The Qio is, according to Anthony Burokas, the most useful professional video production accessory for a laptop-enabled tapeless live production workflow that you can get.
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Posted 11 Jan 2012
Anthony Burokas goes behind the scenes at NASA TV to shadow an event video crew that's responsible for bringing launches live to the world.
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Posted 10 Jan 2012
TouchStream 1.2 is a beefier upgrade to Digital Rapids' compact, touchscreen-enabled live encoding box that is head-and-shoulders above similar devices when it comes to "power-up and encode" in just a few simple steps.
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Posted 10 Jan 2012
In this article Tim Siglin will help you navigate the challenges entailed in streaming live events to mobile devices and discuss how to make your projects successful in spite of them.
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Posted 10 Jan 2012
The Battle of the Paddle is the premier event in the world of stand-up paddling, a surfing variant currently sweeping the country and its waterways. The Battle is captured live each year on film and video and delivered online by Soul Surf Media's Chris Aguilar, who explains how he goes deep in the surf to get it done.
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Posted 10 Jan 2012
A physically similar follow-up to Panasonic's more professional AG-HMC80 AVCCAM, the AC7P uses the more consumer AVCHD format, loses a few ports, and drops $1,200 from the price tag, making the $1,300 (MSRP) AG-AC7 the least expensive actual on-shoulder camcorder you can buy. But what do you get?
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Posted 09 Jan 2012
It takes time and money to replace acquisition, editing, and delivery equipment to conform to new and ever-changing standards, and often there are elements of our production gear or workflow that get upgraded while others get left behind. Here Shawn Lam provides some tips to combat these issues.
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Posted 09 Jan 2012
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