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CATEGORY: Editing & Authoring Tips & Techniques |
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Categories include social events and corporate video, including weddings, Bar/Bat Mitzvahs, class reunions, recitals, theatrical/stage productions, promotional videos, graduations, band performances, cheerleading competitions, memorial services, corporate training, anniversaries, christenings, charity events, and others, including the newest category, "Wedding Movie Trailer."
News/Breaking News
- Posted 29 Jun 2009
Stephen Nathans-Kelly | Real Weddings is exactly what it sounds like: an hour-plus DVD that encompasses all the content the Von Lankens deliver to a bride and groom. But what makes this DVD most valuable is the two commentary tracks--one for shooting, one for editing--that run through the entire disc, breaking down virtually everything they do. Also featured: 2 video clips from the DVD!
Department/Continuing Education
- Posted 12 Jun 2009
- June 2009
Stephen Nathans-Kelly | Real Weddings is exactly what it sounds like: an hour-plus DVD that encompasses all the content the Von Lankens deliver to a bride and groom. But what makes this DVD most valuable is the two commentary tracks--one for shooting, one for editing--that run through the entire disc, breaking down virtually everything they do. Also featured: 2 video clips from the DVD!
News/Feature
- Posted 12 Jun 2009
David McKnight | The latest and greatest in Vegas Pro 9 for videographers
David McKnight | The latest and greatest in Vegas Pro 9 for videographers
With the launch of the new Re:Frame website morning, the Re:Frame Collective revealed dates, location, a (nearly) complete speaker roster, and some tantalizing details about what RF:SF 09 attendees can expect for the three-and-a-half day event, which will take place at San Francisco's toney CLIFT Hotel in the heart of Union Square, October 19-22, 2009
Laura Randall | Magic Bullet Quick Looks (MBQL) gives you the same popular presets as the full-featured Magic Bullet Looks filters. The biggest difference is that you don't have the ability to edit or customize the look other than to control the amount of effect (0%-100%) on your clip. But if you're looking for a variety of preset looks that are easy to apply for a reasonable price, this is a great program.
Editorial/In the Studio
- Posted 05 Jun 2009
- June 2009
By
Laura Randall
Ben Balser | EditMule has three utility apps that work with FCP to make our lives as editors much easier, picking up the slack in three areas where FCP is lacking: assigning Scratch Disk settings on a per-project basis; collapsing Sequences to remove unnecessary tracks; and removing a specific filter, or filters, from a specific Sequence.
Editorial/In the Studio
- Posted 05 Jun 2009
- June 2009
By
Ben Balser
Elizabeth Avery Merfeld | Steve and Laura Moses have been called the "prom king and queen" and "model husband-wife team" of wedding video. But forget the awards and accolades for a moment, since they're not what define this couple, nor do they tell the whole story of their lives in this business, or this business in their lives. Here's a brief review of their road to success and what they saw and learned along the way.
Elizabeth Avery Merfeld | Steve and Laura Moses have been called the "prom king and queen" and "model husband-wife team" of wedding video. But forget the awards and accolades for a moment, since they're not what define this couple, nor do they tell the whole story of their lives in this business, or this business in their lives. Here's a brief review of their road to success and what they saw and learned along the way.
Alan Naumann | Whereas many dads connect with their sons through sports, my son Jason and I connected through video. We spent many hours together making music videos and short films, as well as shooting various events. Partly as a result of that, he's now living out my dream of becoming an independent filmmaker.
Column/Cradle to Grave
- Posted 05 Jun 2009
- June 2009
By
Alan Naumann
Lance Gray | Recently, I was producing for a 720x480 NTSC resolution screen, but the clients submitted only still photos gathered from their website that were in the 300x200 range. Understandably, they were miffed about how I was going to "stretch" the photos to make the stills look decent because they had already attempted this and realized the results weren't pretty. Little did they know the solution wasn't in stretching the canvas but in approaching the problem more creatively. Here's how I made it work.
Editorial/Tutorials
- Posted 05 Jun 2009
- June 2009
By
Lance Gray
Laura Moses | Not all brides can afford to have a production with their backstory researched, recorded, and then weaved with interviews and photographs into their wedding film. But there are always stories to tell, and we can find them if we are only willing to look.
Column/Vantage Point
- Posted 05 Jun 2009
By
Laura Moses
Marc Franklin | The hottest new announcements and releases of NAB 2009 for the videography world
Editorial/Features
- Posted 05 Jun 2009
- June 2009
By
Marc Franklin
WEVA EXPO 2009, the biggest convention & trade show for wedding & event video producers worldwide, runs September 14-17, 2009
News/Breaking News
- Posted 04 Jun 2009
Topics include cinematic shooting and editing techniques, artistic shot composition, company image and branding, and marketing to high-end brides
News/Breaking News
- Posted 02 Jun 2009
Stephen Nathans-Kelly | Illinois Videographers Association event draws internationally recognized presenters Patrick Moreau and Michael Wong of StillMotion and marks the speaking debut of concept film phenom Kevin Shahinian of Pacific Pictures
Enter Your Best Videos Now
News/Breaking News
- Posted 20 May 2009
Jan Ozer | As many of you have already discovered, creating videos for small to midsize businesses gives videographers a nice opportunity to branch out into new markets. Here are some tips on how to do it well.
News/Feature
- Posted 18 May 2009
By
Jan Ozer
Stephen Nathans-Kelly | What is In[Focus] 2010 and what's with all those viral videos?
A team of Apple executives, led by Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, will deliver the keynote.
News/Breaking News
- Posted 13 May 2009
iDive is a central hub for your movies and clips
News/Breaking News
- Posted 12 May 2009
Ben Balser | Here we explore Final Cut Pro's track controls, teaching readers how to quickly and easily manage tracks and content, cutting down on the time they spend placing content, and increasing the time they have to be creative.
Editorial/Tutorials
- Posted 06 May 2009
- May 2009
By
Ben Balser
Jan Ozer | Whether you plan to use it as a collection of theme-specific transitions or an inexpensive platform for custom effects generation, at $79, Adorage is a cost-effective and worthwhile addition to your editing suite.
Editorial/In the Studio
- Posted 06 May 2009
By
Jan Ozer
Lance Gray | Lance explains how to simplify and streamline the production of pro-quality photo collages for video and montage projects using Google Picasa.
Editorial/Tutorials
- Posted 05 May 2009
- May 2009
By
Lance Gray
Elizabeth Avery Merfeld | A look behind the garage door into the world where "A Sin City Love Story" was created
Re:Frame 09 Austin rolls on into Day Two with internationally renowned DoP Philip Bloom, Fusion tips from Bruce Patterson, 30-second film clips, shooting in the streets of Austin, and more
News/Feature
- Posted 04 May 2009
Elizabeth Avery Merfeld | A look behind the garage door into the world where "A Sin City Love Story" was created
A few thoughts on the 2008 EventDV 25
A few thoughts on the 2008 EventDV 25
Ed Wardyga | I keep hearing about fellow video professionals—especially those who specialize in weddings—lamenting the decreases in their business. Economic downturns do affect everyone, but all that is required to survive and even prosper is a willingness to do two things: diversify, and keep a keen eye out for opportunities.
Column/Amen Corner
- Posted 03 May 2009
- May 2009
By
Ed Wardyga
Ed Wardyga | I keep hearing about fellow video professionals—especially those who specialize in weddings—lamenting the decreases in their business. Economic downturns do affect everyone, but all that is required to survive and even prosper is a willingness to do two things: diversify, and keep a keen eye out for opportunities.
Can Austin keep Re:Frame weird, and vice versa?
Customers Now Receive Certification upon lynda.com Course Completion
News/Breaking News
- Posted 27 Apr 2009
Presentation topics include Best Practices for Wedding Gig Networking, Audio Acquisition for Videographers; with Sennheiser
News/Breaking News
- Posted 20 Apr 2009
Goal of the festival is to increase awareness of the quality and differing types of wedding video and film productions that are being produced today by artists from around the world and to reward these artists with real prizes that will take their craft to a higher level
News/Breaking News
- Posted 18 Apr 2009
Editorial/EventDV-TV
- Posted 15 Apr 2009
Site aggregates Final Cut Pro specific news, blogs and tweets and displays them on a single page
News/Breaking News
- Posted 15 Apr 2009
Ben Balser | DVDxDV's Veescope line, which started with the Veescope Live software-based field monitor, now consists of four tools: Veescope Live, Veescope Hub, Veescope Key, and Veescope Signals. I have found all four of these software products to be worth the price, reliable, and high quality.
Editorial/In the Field
- Posted 09 Apr 2009
- April 2009
By
Ben Balser
Lance Gray | Shallow depth of field is easy to achieve with a nice camera. But what if you have a photo in which there's little distinction between the foreground and the background? In this tutorial, I'll show you a quick way to get this effect with minimal effort.
Editorial/Tutorials
- Posted 09 Apr 2009
- April 2009
By
Lance Gray
David McKnight | This month we'll feature more audio tips plus information on compression, the audio utilities found in UltimateS Pro, and the best way to prepare audio files for use in Vegas's disc-authoring companion program, DVD Architect.
Editorial/Tutorials
- Posted 09 Apr 2009
- April 2009
By
David McKnight
Editorial/EventDV-TV
- Posted 06 Apr 2009
By
Hal Slifer
Marla Misek Clark | For Sylvia Broeckx and Niels Puttemans of UK-based Ever After Video Productions, 2008 was a transformative year
Department/Studio Time
- Posted 06 Apr 2009
- April 2009
Jan Ozer | Not to rant, but the QuickTime Reference Movie has better PR people than Peyton Manning, creating a legacy that the reality doesn't quite match.
Column/The Moving Picture
- Posted 30 Mar 2009
- April 2009
By
Jan Ozer
Hal Slifer's 3 Questions
Editorial/EventDV-TV
- Posted 25 Mar 2009
By
Hal Slifer
Registration info for April 27-29 event
News/Breaking News
- Posted 25 Mar 2009
First Professional Videographers Coalition event hosted by LIVA and NJVA
News/Breaking News
- Posted 25 Mar 2009
May 20 event to feature all-star speaking lineup with Patrick Moreau and Michael Wong, Lance Gray, Chris Chibucos, Kevin Shahinian, and Keith Kelly
News/Breaking News
- Posted 24 Mar 2009
Jan Ozer | In this first installment and episode of Streaming Video Peer Review, streaming video expert and Moving Picture columnist Jan Ozer analyzes an online corporate video by McKinsey & Company for background, lighting and exposure, audio, editing, and encoding.
News/Feature
- Posted 23 Mar 2009
By
Jan Ozer
10 chapters cover a comprehensive range of subjects including capturing, importing, editing, effects, audio and exporting
News/Breaking News
- Posted 18 Mar 2009
Presenting the 2008 EventDV 25, the 25 hottest and most influential videographers in the world as elected by the readers of EventDV magazine
Editorial/EventDV-TV
- Posted 17 Mar 2009
Editorial/Features
- Posted 16 Mar 2009
Elizabeth Avery Merfeld | We asked 5 award-winning studios--all of whom have won international awards specifically for their demos--to demystify the process of producing an award-winning demo and help you master the making of your own.
Elizabeth Avery Merfeld | His maxim--Adapt or die!--is what turned BMX legend Joe Simon into a four-time Telly Award-winning artist and owner of Joe Simon Productions, an Austin, Texas-based studio specializing in cinematic high-definition and vintage wedding films.
Shawn Lam | The primary benefit of the Matrox RT.X2 LE is that even after you add several effects and layers of video, your video preview is done in real time. In addition, once you're done editing, the subsequent export does not first require rendering time for the effects and layers before encoding.
Editorial/In the Studio
- Posted 05 Mar 2009
- March 2009
By
Shawn Lam
Lance Gray | While you could certainly find a font or Photoshop brush to make a star, there is actually a very easy way to do it within Photoshop. And if you do it this way, you can even dictate the number of points!
Editorial/Tutorials
- Posted 05 Mar 2009
- March 2009
By
Lance Gray
New issue features Mark Von Lanken's definitive review of the Panasonic AG-HMC150, 5 expert opinions on how to construct an effective wedding demo, Ben Balser's tutorial on working with sound in Final Cut Pro, and new columnist Mark Foley's tips on how to get great on-site audio at live events
Editorial/Features
- Posted 05 Mar 2009
Ben Balser | From capture to mixing, this article will give you the basic tools for managing how you work with soundtracks efficiently and easily.
Editorial/Tutorials
- Posted 05 Mar 2009
- March 2009
By
Ben Balser
Jan Ozer | What are the 5 most common mistakes made by video producers when producing or preparing their video for streaming? In a sneak preview of his upcoming Streaming Media East seminar exclusively for EventDV readers, Jan Ozer explains these errors and tells you how to avoid them.
Column/The Moving Picture
- Posted 02 Mar 2009
- March 2009
By
Jan Ozer
New training video gives users expert instruction on optimizing image quality and content repurposing; mastering new features found in the industry standard Episode 5.1 compression tools
News/Breaking News
- Posted 20 Feb 2009
Mark Von Lanken takes Panasonic's new professional AVCHD camera, the AG-HMC150, out in the field for a series of wedding shoots and examines its usability and features, tests its low-light performance, and offers comparisons to Sony's popular Z1U. NOW AVAILABLE: ALL 5 VIDEO CLIPS THAT ACCOMPANY THIS ARTICLE!
Editorial/In the Field
- Posted 17 Feb 2009
- March 2009
By
Mark Von Lanken
By utilizing both modern and vintage filmmaking tools and even including new fusion techniques, the entries for this competition are poised to be some of the most inspired and most unique showcases of talent seen yet
News/Breaking News
- Posted 05 Feb 2009
CS4 guru provides expert instruction for latest Adobe® release
News/Breaking News
- Posted 03 Feb 2009
New issue features Philip Hinkle's search for the perfect reception light, Jan Ozer's best practices for delivering HD video online, Stu Sweetow's surefire plan for avoiding catastrophe when shooting on location, and more
Editorial/Features
- Posted 01 Feb 2009
Lance Gray | What if you love a certain pristine font and can't find a grungy version of it? Well, I'm going to show you how to take crisp and clean and make it tattered and dirty!
Editorial/Tutorials
- Posted 31 Jan 2009
- February 2009
By
Lance Gray
Joe McManus | This month we'll look at the AVCHD format and how it fits into your Final Cut Pro workflow.
Editorial/Tutorials
- Posted 31 Jan 2009
- February 2009
By
Joe McManus
David McKnight | For those instances when your captured audio leaves something to be desired, it's great to have postproduction tools that can make a difference. Here's a look at how to use Vegas's rich complement of audio tools to normalize your captured audio and eliminate unwanted noises.
Editorial/Tutorials
- Posted 31 Jan 2009
- February 2009
By
David McKnight
Jan Ozer | So, you've been shooting in high definition for a while now, and you are ready to start posting HD sample clips on the web that actually reflect the quality of the footage you're capturing in your camera and editing in your NLE. You have two options: Do it yourself or use a service. Here's what you'll need to know with each approach.
Editorial/Features
- Posted 30 Jan 2009
- February 2009
By
Jan Ozer
David McKnight | Video Essentials claims to be a Swiss Army knife of postproduction designed to enhance, optimize, and accelerate your productivity. It includes 10 tools that serve a variety of effects needs. Sometimes you need to fix a problem, and sometimes you want to enhance an image. Video Essentials includes tools designed to do both.
Editorial/In the Studio
- Posted 30 Jan 2009
- February 2009
By
David McKnight
Laura Moses | As wedding videograpgers, we work with music, hearts, and dreams. We're the keepers of the flame for future generations. After we're gone there will be pieces of us—little bits of our hearts—scattered across the globe, telling stories about love.
Column/Vantage Point
- Posted 30 Jan 2009
- February 2009
By
Laura Moses
Stephen Nathans-Kelly | Introducing EventDV-TV, EventDV's forthcoming video channel, which will debut in February on www.eventdv-tv.com.
Turn to award-winning industry veteran and recognized CS4 guru Tim Kolb as the on-camera instructor for the title
News/Breaking News
- Posted 17 Jan 2009
Jan Ozer | Adobe Creative Suite 4 (CS4) Production Premium allows you to send Premiere Pro sequences to both the Adobe Media Encoder (AME) and Adobe Encore for rendering or authoring while continuing to edit in Premiere Pro. The bad news is this significantly increases CS4's memory requirements, and on a 32-bit operating system, this can mean longer rendering times, instability, or both. If you want CS4's features without the performance penalty, you should consider running CS4 on a 64-bit system.
Column/The Moving Picture
- Posted 12 Jan 2009
- February 2009
By
Jan Ozer
Tour Kicks Off in New York City on January 16
News/Breaking News
- Posted 08 Jan 2009
Polls now open for 2008 EventDV 25, the 25 hottest and most influential videographers in the business
News/Breaking News
- Posted 05 Jan 2009
Lance Gray | In the December 2008 installment of Graphic Thoughts, I shared the first 5 of my top 10 most commonly used Photoshop tricks. Here's the rest of the best.
Editorial/Tutorials
- Posted 01 Jan 2009
- January 2009
By
Lance Gray
Ben Balser | This month we'll look at exporting your Final Cut Pro Sequence into an H.264 file for the internet. We'll take you through three methods of doing this that are not difficult, starting with the easiest first.
Editorial/Tutorials
- Posted 01 Jan 2009
- January 2009
By
Ben Balser
David McKnight | In this installment I'll extend the discussion of color correction techniques we began in November 2008 with a look at using some of the new color-enhancing filters that come with Vegas Pro 8 to solve a real-world problem with exposure.
Editorial/Tutorials
- Posted 01 Jan 2009
- January 2009
By
David McKnight
January 2009 EventDV Table of Contents
Editorial/Features
- Posted 01 Jan 2009
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