Software Field Monitors, Part 1 

By Jan Ozer

One of the coolest product categories in the HDV@Work space is software programs that provide video scopes, a large preview monitor, direct-to-disc recording capabilities (DDR), and other features. In this issue, I'll introduce you to the category of products and illustrate and explain some of their benefits...

NAB 2008 Pick Hit Awards 

Trevor Boyer

For the Pick Hits, our judges look for products that show significant technological innovation, while promising to have a positive, practical impact on the day-to-day professional lives of digital content producers, and the 2008 list certainly reflects that. ...

Know Your Formats, Part 1 

By Jan Ozer

Many digital shooters started with DV video, which hammered the nail in the analog-video coffin and democratized video production by dropping the price of capturing very good video from $25,000 (Betacam SP camera and deck)...

Shoot Expertise: Camera Mics 

By Barry Braverman

I admit I'm a shooter, born and raised. It's what I do like breathing. So after almost three decades of crashing a viewfinder to my face, I think I've...

Special OPS 

By Kristinha M. Anding

There's Something Very Mission: Impossible about the Oceanic Preservation Society (OPS), a Boulder, Colo.-based nonprofit that creates films about the decline of the Earth's oceans — and stops at virtually nothing to get a good shot...

Shoot Review: Sony PCM-D50  

Reviewer: Gary Eskow

Have you been hanging onto that old handheld stereo cassette player/recorder you used in the late 1980s to conduct interviews, just in case? If so, toss...

Mark In 

Adding new capabilities to camcorders via innovative software and leveraging the Internet looks to be a growing trend that will affect producers over...

Dream Job: Exchange Program  

By Kristinha M. Anding

Jenny Richards found herself at a crossroads in the mid-1990s. The now-deputy director of the London-based Television Trust for the Environment (TVE)...

Story Supportive  

By Jon Silberg

The four cinematographers nominated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for Oscars this year Robert Elswit for There Will Be Blood; Seamus...

Beta Sight: Red Digital Cinema Red One  

By Steve Tammi, 4K Ninjas

I have been Shooting with the Red Digital Cinema Red One Camera for almost six months now. Although I have been asked to write about my first impression...