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The Moving Picture: April Fool’s Day, 2005
You can learn how to shoot video in one of two ways. You can apprentice under the direction of an experienced videographer who's done it all and seen it all, and leverage the lessons he or she has learned over the years. Or, you can book the jo
Read More »The Moving Picture: Perils of Presentations
This past fall I gave six 6-hour presentations over eight weekends in six different cities, taught a 2-day seminar in Las Vegas, and helped present three 3-day seminars in northern Virginia. Lots of travel, which was fun, and I enjoy presenting, but
Read More »HDV and the Sony FX1
After testing Sony’s HDR-FX1, I’m an HDV believer. It’s not the second coming of DV, …
Read More »The Moving Picture: Follow the Format
Many of the questions I get from readers and see on Web forums relate to confusion about the formats and file types used in the video production process. Briefly, a format defines the file structure, or how the information is presented in the file. D
Read More »The Moving Picture: MPEG-4 is Dead
I've been down on MPEG-4 for a while now, despite my respect for many of the folks associated with the standard. Given the adoption of Microsoft's Windows Media Video 9 by the DVD Forum, there's increasing reason to believe, to paraphrase an old Sout
Read More »The Moving Picture: From Small Things, Big Things One Day Come
The nice thing about DV is that when it arrived, it arrived alone, at least in the prosumer/consumer space, which was too price-sensitive for DVCAM and DVCPRO. There was analog and there was DV, and that was it. Unfortunately, new products have signi
Read More »The Moving Picture: The Problem with Streaming
The problem with streaming video is well, um, streaming. To "stream" video, or deliver it on demand without interruption, you must compress it to low data rates that squeeze much of the quality out of the video. In contrast, all streaming video&mdash
Read More »Will MPEG-4 Fly?
Strong market forces are pushing for a standards-based resolution to the high-profile battle of proprietary …
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