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Hot club of cowtown: re:frame austin.(the nonlinear editor)
Jun 01, 2009; ... On my first trip to Austin, Texas, in 1998, I visited a honky-tonk institution called The Broken Spoke. I made a great impression upon arrival when I saw that they had only one beer on draft and asked the 60-something bartender how the Pearl beer was that night. Rolling her eyes, she ...
Match point.(studio time)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Our Studio Time usually profiles spotlight wedding and event videography studios that promise greatness, in due time. But sometimes, we are reminded that we would be remiss in overlooking studios that have come through on that promise already and that are at their ripest. You ...
Red giant magic bullet quick looks 1.2.(in the studio)
Jun 01, 2009; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Color grading has become more and more important in wedding videography as productions have become increasingly sophisticated and filmlike. Magic Bullet Looks has been recognized by some of the top wedding videographers as the No. 1 color correction tool for ...
The EditMule trio.
Jun 01, 2009; ... EditMule www.editmule.com [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Final Cut Pro now has slightly more than 50% of the professional postproduction market and is an NLE to be reckoned with. But it's still not 100% perfect, as nothing in life ever is. Fortunately, more and more third-party ...
Make the most of your camera with new accessories.(gear & now)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Occasionally, it does happen--a small new gadget is priced higher than the big product it's meant to accessorize. Counterintuitive, perhaps, but when the accessory heralds a whole new technology, we might begin to understand the apparent imbalance. Panasonic is hoping so, with word of the ...
Graphic thoughts: making low-rez images work at broadcast size.(tutorial)
Jun 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 'You can't always get what you want.' How true that statement is, whether I hear it from my radio as The Rolling Stones sing it, remember my mom saying it to me as a child, or, heck ... hear a client say it to me when he or she delivers content for a video ...
NAB 2009: the 'best of' for the rest of us.
Jun 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It's that time of year again--time for me to choose the most important products from the 2009 NAB show for the event videography world and a few other neighboring planets. Before I plunge into the list, a word to all of the manufacturers, their PR people, ...
What's new in Sony Vegas Pro 9?
Jun 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] By the time you read this, Vegas Pro 9 will be readily available for download and purchase. As I write this, it's shortly after NAB, where version 9 was announced and demoed, and a couple of weeks before Sony made it available to the public. I'm not a beta ...
Von training real weddings, volume 1.(continuing education)
Jun 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A few months ago, during the EventDV 25 voting, there was a thread on Chris Hurd's DVinfo.net forum in which Milwaukee-area wedding videographer Joel Peregrine, an EventDV 25 honoree himself, said that the real measure of your worth as a wedding ...
Upcoming educational events.
Jun 01, 2009 ... WEVA Expo 2009 WEVA International Hilton Orlando Orlando, FL Sept. 14-17, 2009 www.wevaexpo.com Re:Frame 2009 2.0 Re:Frame Collective San Francisco, CA October 2009 (details ...
Beautiful in blue.(vantage point)
Jun 01, 2009; ... The great storyteller William Gaff of Humanstory (www.humanstoryfilms.com) likes to pose the question, "What is story?" to open dialogue about the subject and to get filmmakers thinking. He encourages artists to reflect and discover answers for themselves. Many wedding filmmakers agree ...
Converting and restoring old films.(op-ed)
Jun 01, 2009; ... While most video producers--especially those who shoot live events--focus on the present, some also enjoy bringing the past into today's technology. In addition to shooting weddings and other events, my company, A Generations Project of Madison, Wis., also specializes in converting old ...
From our backyard to Hollywood.(cradle to grave)
Jun 01, 2009; ... I've often heard of fathers trying to live out their dreams through their children. In my case, I actually am--and my son seems none the worse for it. Through my college career, one of the things I wanted to do was to study filmmaking. For many reasons, this was not to be. My ...
It's not about the technology.(strictly business)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Remember when remote trucks were the size of school buses? Or when tape decks were bigger than two good-sized men standing next to one another? Many of us old-timers got excellent workouts just carrying around the equipment we needed to do our jobs. In those days, technicians ...
Deep thoughts on marketing videos.(the moving picture)
Jun 01, 2009; ... I recently gave a half-day seminar to the greater Wisconsin chapter of the Media Communications Association--International, and I devoted the last hour to creating effective marketing videos for businesses and other organizations. In pulling the materials together, I reviewed 50 or so ...
The new gold standard.(the nonlinear editor)
May 01, 2009; ... Glen David Gold's Sunnyside is one of the most hotly anticipated new literary novels of this year, and with good reason: Gold's one previous novel, Carter Beats the Devil, was the most riveting, sumptuously imagined romp through an American decade since E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime. When ...
NEW releases from major manufacturers support event video.(gear & now)
May 01, 2009; ... Although it may not be "officially" recognized as an industry classification, event videography is gaining support and recognition from major manufacturers who are releasing products specifically aimed at this market. Partly as a way to support (pardon the pun) today's multipurpose HD and ...
Wedding video's hottest Garage Band.(studio time)
May 01, 2009; ... Some artists seek inspiration in long walks, majestic sunsets, or awe-inspiring works of art. Others, like the crew at wedding and event cinematography studio Starcross'd Creative (formerly Starcross'd Films), "get together over some beer and Rock Band." Creative director and ...
Stressed? take a chill pill.(strictly business)
May 01, 2009; ... As the saying goes, when you're keister-deep in alligators, it's sometimes difficult to remember that your initial objective was to drain the swamp. Creating and promoting a new website, updating my existing site, producing new videos and columns--not to mention gallivanting ...
Recession-era revenue ideas.(the gadget bag)
May 01, 2009; ... I keep hearing about fellow video professionals--especially those who specialize in weddings--lamenting the decreases in their business. Economic downturns do affect everyone, but all that is required to survive and even prosper is a willingness to do two things: diversify, and keep a keen ...