Focus On Affordable HD: A Kick, Push By Craig Erpelding
Roughly 10 years ago, Christopher Adams and Hana McDowell set out to send a shockwave throughout Chicago's production facilities when they founded Impakt...
Filming the The War Tapes By Darroch Greer
The War Tapes is the first war movie shot by soldiers themselves. Unlike documentary footage shot by George Stevens and John Huston, who were attached as filmmakers to the U.S. Signal Corps during World War II...
Focus On Affordable HD: JVC GY-HD250 By Steve Mullen
Shooting 60p has two unique advantages. First, it captures high-speed motion far better than 60i because it lacks interlace artifacts. That makes 60p...
Installation Profile: Investing in HD By Jack Kontney
Faced with an aging infrastructure and staring at the high-definition future of broadcasting, Crystal Cathedral Ministries (CCM) recently decided the time had come to invest in the future by upgrading to HD for production on The Hour of Power...
Focusing in HD By Craig Erpelding
National Geographic Magazine recently chronicled the activities of World Conservation Society biologist Mike Fay, an individual who many are crediting with helping save a chunk of West African rainforest roughly the size of Colorado in the equatorial nation of Gabon....
Shoot Review: Anton Bauer Elipz Reviewer: Tom Patrick McAuliffe
Video cameras have gotten more versatile and a lot smarter, but sometimes manufacturers forget the little things. Couldn't your shooting be more comfortable...
Shoot Review: Adobe DV Rack 2 Reviewer: S.D. Katz
When I started this review, Adobe had not yet purchased Serious Magic. The acquisition makes sense: Serious Magic is that rare company that has defined...
Shoot Expertise: Sound Check By Jan Ozer
Most videographers know how to choose and use external microphones to maximize the audio quality of their shoots. Although there's some crossover in technologies...
Chasing the Perfect Pipeline By Michael Goldman
The digital post workflow philosophy behind Craig Brewer's new psycho-sexual drama, Black Snake Moan, which premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival,...
Hands-on XDCAM HD By Barry Braverman
In November 2006, I embarked on a once-in-a-lifetime journey to northern India to shoot second unit and behind-the-scenes for Wes Anderson's new movie, The Darjeeling Limited...