How many of us have received homemade gifts over the years and wondered why someone would take the time and effort to make THAT? I still have the hand-made “Santa’s Workshop Tissue Holder” I received a few years ago because I felt guilty disposing of it. Here’s an idea, though, where your homemade gift can be [...]

Reprinted from a proDAD press release: proDAD GmbH today announced the latest addition to its popular Adorage Effects Package – Adorage Effects Package 10 – Full HD Video Effects Generation.  As its name suggests, Adorage Effects Package 10 includes hundreds of video effects and transitions from previous Adorage Effects Packages, now in Full HD resolution.  Adorage [...]

We get a remarkable variety of press releases here as a result of the wide breadth of topics that we either currently cover or had covered in the past. A press release we got yesterday promoted GetDiz, a freebie text editor from Outertech, a German software developer. I said sure, I installed it and gave [...]

No matter what your opinion of a good movie is, the truth is that we all have favorites. One of mine is known as the b-movie. Not so much a genre, but a level of class that only certain movies get the chance to reach. I have always used two levels of criteria for these [...]

I was sitting here today pondering the end of tape, and what it means for video producers in the near future… Now HDV certainly isn’t dead, and even MiniDV is still hanging on, I expect to see new models of both formats at CES next month. However I don’t think anyone will disagree with the statement [...]

While a mention of “Black Friday” may make some think variously of a really bad day on Wall Street or a great Steely Dan song*, it’s the day where all of the retailers pull out all the stops in the hopes of bringing massive throngs of customers into their stores, with some doorbusters and other [...]

  Join us on December 11th, at 11am PST (2pm EST), for a live review of Sony’s newest HDV camcorder the FX1000. We will be going over our impressions and reviewing the camcorder in a live web-cast at videomaker.com/live. We will also be taking questions from our audience via the chat room, so [...]

Last week I was fortunate enough to be a part of a press group, that for the first time ever, was allowed into Canon’s factory in Oita Japan. As we pulled the plastic shower caps over our shoes to keep the factory floor contaminant free, I wondered what exactly we were going to see. Visions of [...]

For years, we video producers have had to deal with how we share our videos with our associates or clients when we want to discuss changes, and where to go next. We’ve mailed VHS tapes and DVDs and waited for their response. We’ve made low-rez e-mail and FTP links… and waited for their comments. Several companies [...]

In a move that will be applauded by many (including this editor), Adobe was the first software company to focus a release an update to their editing software that focuses on COMPATIBILITY! Yes, even with other software packages. This newest update to Premiere Pro CS4 allows you to exchange projects with Avid and Final Cut [...]