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Shoot Review — Sony HVR-A1U 

Reviewer: Barry Braverman

It's a robust high-definition camcorder with enough horsepower to do the job, yet compact enough to fit in your coat pocket. It's under 3lbs. with battery,...

Shooting for DVD: Reviewing the Fundamentals 

Barry Braverman

DVD is big business. In 2004, retail sales of DVD product exceeded $25 billion, which begs the question as a pro-level shooter of film and video if you’re doing enough to wrest the best possible quality images out of the five-inch discs. Because DVD-Video entails significant compromises with respect to compression... ...

SHOOTING FOR DVD: Reviewing the Fundamentals, Part 2 

Barry Braverman

Your camera’s detail setting can also significantly impact the look of your DVD images as most cameras’ elevated default values will place a hard, high-contrast edge around objects. Raising or lowering the camera’s detail level can directly affect the thickness and appearance of this edge. When compressing to MPEG-2 for DVD, this edge may contribute to serious artifacts......

Hands-on HVX 

By Barry Braverman

At NAB 2005, Panasonic security dutifully watched over a glass case that held The Camera. Such was the level of excitement and anticipation for clearly catered to dreamers and promised do it all, a true-high-definition modestly priced camcorder capable of shooting variable frame rates at 720p and 1080i resolutions — at 4:2:2, no less. The camera offered the tantalizing prospect of a $150,000 shooting package for a mere $6,000. ...

One-man Pipeline 

By Michael Goldman

While most of the attention paid to James Longley's documentary film Iraq in Fragments understandably revolves around the project's political nature and critical acclaim (the film won three Sundance Film Festival awards in the Independent Film and Documentary competitions), the technical hurdles the project grappled with are also significant. Longley directed, co-edited, co-produced, scored, shot, and recorded all audio for the documentary....

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Nonlinear Acquisition 

By Simon Wyndham

Considering the number of years since editing systems became predominantly nonlinear, I find it fascinating that we are still using tape-based cameras and acquisition. There are, of course, very sound reasons why tape has been retained as an acquisition medium...

Shoot Review — Canon XL H1 

By D. W. Leitner

Of the first crop of professionalized HDV camcorders with 1/3in. sensors, only the latest, Canon's XL H1, can claim to have been created by a lens manufacturer. This is a meaningful distinction. With fixed-lens HDV camcorders retailing for less than $5,000 ...