By John Jackman VP, Comenius Communication, Inc. One question I am often asked is how to go about selling a documentary to The History Channel or Discovery or PBS. The question usually starts out asking whether DV is "good enough" for these venues; the questioner then...
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Video Business Tax Deductions
The following article is excerpted from the Professional Video Producer home study course. By Hal Landen Updated December 2021 TIP: Click on this IRS web site for lots of helpful information for businesses including tax forms you can download as PDF files. According...
How to Buy Video Production Insurance
Insuring Your Video Production Business Contents Part I: What types of Coverage will you need? (This Section) Equipment Coverage Rental equipment Your own equipment A Crash Course in Liability coverage Watch out for Exclusions Workmen's Compensation Types of Coverage...
Analysis of A Wedding Video Business
or- Why You Need To Raise Your Prices -by- Doug Graham This article is my response to a number of long-running threads in the Video University wedding forum, as well as other videography forums. The question of "how much to charge" is constantly raised, and endlessly...
50 Ways To Improve Your Video Business
© Hal Landen ALL RIGHTS RESERVED To help you succeed in the video business, I've prepared a free Special Report which is excerpted below. To get a free copy of the full nine-page Report by email, just register below. There's absolutely no cost or obligation. I will...
World-Wide T.V. Standards
Not all television sets in the world are equal. Different countries use one of the three main video standards - PAL, NTSC or SECAM. This means that a videotape or DVD from a PAL country will not play in a VCR or DVD player in a country that uses the NTSC standard. To...
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...
Live Video Switching On a Budget
by Fred Wilharm To contact the author by email 1999 About the Author: Fred Wilharm earned a B.A. degree in Broadcast Communications in 1980. He has been a video hobbyist as long as there has been prosumer equipment, owning and using the first camera/VCR combinations...
Sony HDR FX1 HDV Camcorder
What Users Say about the Sony HDR FX1 HDV Camcorder Sony FX1 is the leading Hi-Definition prosumer video camera currently available. Released in the fall of 2004, it was the first consumer HDV three chip camera with 1080 lines and 60 interlaced frames per second. It...
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