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Test Drive: Affordable HD Formats, Part 1

By Jan Ozer

If you’re considering buying a new affordable HD camcorder, you should have at least three formats in mind: tried-and-true HDV, up-and-coming AVCHD, and the ever-more-affordable DVCPRO HD. By a stroke of good fortune, I have three such camcorders in hand right now, and I thought it would be a good time to discuss their relative merits...

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Products

Shoot Tools: Ikan V8000HDMI

With many of the latest camcorders now offering HDMI output, anyone doing field production now has improved viewing options. Ikan's V8000HDMI its second-generation...

Edit Tools: Lenovo

As the portable-workstation market gets more competitive, new twists help products stand out. While Lenovo's ThinkPad W700 notebook offers a 2.53GHz Intel...

Edit Tools: HP

With more of us wanting mobility, even when editing or doing other post work, manufacturers are following suit. HP's EliteBook 8730w mobile workstation...

Reviews & Features

Vanguard Awards 2008

When they consider the tools they use daily, professional video producers notice that their software tends to get more expansive and more complicated...

Dream Job: State of Videocracy

Jacob Soboroff believes we are not only living in a democracy, but also in a By far, many more people upload videos to YouTube and are on MySpace and...

Edit Review: M-Audio ProFire 610 and Studiophile BX8a Deluxe

If you bring analog sounds into your recording system and who doesn't? you'll need an audio interface that converts them to digital data and back into...