Photokina has been the largest, best known photography and imaging trade show in the world, but it is now closing its doors "until further notice." It began in 1950 and was held every two years in...
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They Shall Not Grow Old Review
They Shall Not Grow Old, a 2018 film, tells the story of British troops in the First World War. It uses documentary footage of the soldiers as they faced the frontline battle in Belgium. They Shall Not Grow Old is not so much facts about the battle as of the human...
Hummingbird Drone Films Monarch Butterflies
A video from the PBS Show "Nature", shows a very clever drone which looks like a Hummingbird. This is how it can get so close to the Monarch Butterfly swarm. The butterflies do not see a Hummingbird as a threat. The Hummingbird Drone is designed so moving parts are...
The Gift of Family Video For A Quarantined Parent
Mary is a very nice old lady who lives in a condo. She doesn't drive much anymore. Several years ago she called me to transfer some of her VHS tapes to DVDs. I offered to pick them up and deliver. She was happy with the DVDs I made for her, but I did not hear from her...
Zoom Party
Last week I wrote about Zoom (zoom.us) as an easier way to video chat with people. Unlike the other chat options, this one does not require software or registration for anyone except the one calling the meeting. Just send them an email and a time to meet. They click...
Filming in Cuba
I was cleaning my desk the other day and stumbled on some old film negatives that I had never printed. Since I had just written an article about Transferring Negatives and Transparencies, I wanted to scan these long lost negatives right away and see what I was...
Costco Video Transfers vs Mine
Here's what Mimi Stevens wrote in a Google review of my service, "Recently received a couple of reels from my aunt, of my dad as a baby. I took those to Costco. They use an outside service called Yes Video. I was not happy with the transfer. In some parts the top half...
Drone Killer: A Drone That Shoots Drones
Mount a shotgun on a drone. What could possibly go wrong? A Russian defense contractor has patented a 50 pound drone that uses an automatic shotgun to shoot other drones out of the sky. The shotgun has a 10-round magazine. Fortunately the drone is not autonomous. It...
Internships in Video Production, Social Media and Investigative Reporting
By Madison Dudley Student Press Law Center. Originally published at http://www.splc.org/article/2018/09/october-internships The following has been edited by VideoUniversity.com for timeliness and appropriateness. October 12 The Washington Post Summer Internship...
An Affordable Skycam
You've seen Skycam in operation in NFL games and in feature films for those remarkable shots that seem to follow the ball in the air. Skycam is a computer-controlled, stabilized, cable-suspended aerial camera system. It maneuvers the camera through three dimensions...
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