Using The VX 1000 For The First Time? If you're a freelance camera person using this camera for the first time, you will find as I did, this is not like the broadcast cameras you've used. Be prepared for the following: 1. The color viewfinder makes it difficult to...
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Videophones are Changing Telephone Service
Some modestly priced units, including the Packet8 VideoPhone, plug into an electrical outlet and use the Internet. Less than 10 years ago, videoconferencing capabilities could cost upwards of $40,000. Not only were they expensive, but they were cumbersome as well and...
VCR FIRST AID
1. About the Author & Copyright 2. Introduction 2.1) Safety 3. Problems 3.1) VCR behaving strangely 3.2) Ejecting a cassette from an uncooperative VCR 3.3) Video turns to snow while watching a movie 3.4) Recovering damaged or broken tapes [Document Version: 1.11]...
Manufacturers of Underwater Video Camera Housings
10Bar Underwater Housings Aditech Amphibico Underwater Imaging Aquatix International AquaVideo Atmo-Seal Engineering: BSKinetics GMBH ClearCam Video Housings Epic Camera Housings Ewa-Marine Equinox Underwater Products FotoLeone Video Housings Gates Underwater Products...
TV Test Patterns
Below are a few excerpts from a terrific UK site by Darren Meldrum TV Test patterns from around the world. Darren's site includes test patterns from the BBC, Australia, Singapore, Ireland, Sweden, North America and lots more. Probably the most famous American B&W...
Video Tribute Plays in Solar-Powered Gravestones
Just when you think you've seen it all in video gadgetry, a company called Vidstone® brings out a new twist - video tribute gravestones. According to the The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review "More people don't want just good words at the last rites, but an entertaining video...
Teleprompter Tips
Introduction To Teleprompters By Hal Landen When filming anyone - actor or "real person" - who must deliver a long passage of script straight to camera, it's hard to beat a teleprompter. The on-camera talent can read even a lengthy monologue from the teleprompter and...
Ten Tips For Producing Highly Effective Business Videos
by Hal Landen (Originally published in Sales & Marketing Executive Report) Happy clients are the best way to build a solid production business - a far better way than any advertising. And just a few happy clients that keep coming back to update and duplicate older...
Produce Your Own TV Show On Public Access TV
And Take an Inexpensive Video Course Excerpted From Marketing With Digital Video by Hal Landen Public access stations are created when a cable company negotiates a franchise agreement with a local government. Not all franchise agreements include these public access...
PAL Colour Bars
submitted by Sheldon Kennedy Creative Director AirMedia South Africa Sheldon writes: Here is a PAL version of colour bars that we have created and tested digitally and use in our video facility. Might be helpful for your site if anyone needs to use them as a...
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