Video Media Archiving
Re the Video Media Archiving by Dr. Robert Nulph, February 2009 issue. I have been investigating the best method for archiving the video I have done over the last 30 years. Your article was very timely for me and invaluable in the information provided. Until I...
Do you remember that feeling of panic when your project file became corrupt or a critical video file became lost? It happens to the best of us.
With a little planning and good practice, we can put aside our worries of losing all our hard work. Backups, or the...
A well-organized post-production workflow can help save you time and money.
Media management, the process of keeping your media assets accounted for in a system that makes sense, is key in getting projects done on time. Editors each have their own preferences on how to manage this process, but...
The future of video will have most of your work stored on bits of ones and zeros. What you do with that bittage when you store it determines how you'll find it later.
It is winter, a time to reflect and get organized. That box of tapes sitting in...
It's a bird... it's a plane... it's ... the motivated edit? It's a powerful editing technique, but to execute it well, you must consider the final edit when you plan the first shot.
One of our favorite words when we talk about editing is 'conventions.' You've read it in our...
Simple editing is like warming up a can of soup: just drop a couple shots on a timeline and voila! But a master chef uses the tricks of the trade to embellish a video.
The keyframe is both extremely simple and extremely complicated at the same time. Perhaps it is...
From our standpoint, Sony's V1U is certainly an outstanding camcorder. This is Sony's newest high-end camcorder that records 1080i HDV and 480i DV video to miniDV tape. But before we get too ahead of ourselves there is a drawback, a special caveat for those waiting to edit that beautiful...
For anyone who's ever physically cut film on the splicing block of a Moviola, digital video editing is one of the great technological leaps of our time.
Essentially, most video editing programs work in a similar fashion: once footage has been input into the computer and converted into a digital...
It's about Time... The "tapeless" production future everyone has been dreaming about might be closer than you think.
Direct-to-edit tapeless systems record digital video data directly to a portable hard drive -- bypassing the need for videotape. The big benefit is no logging and capturing from tape -- you simply...
Understanding the advantages and limitations of turnkey editing systems.
Turnkey editing systems, simply put, include everything you need to immediately start editing your video projects. Not long ago a turnkey system was either a standalone appliance dedicated to editing only video or a souped up PC optimized for the rigorous...
