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| Workstations Buyer's Guide: Your Best Guide to a New Computerby John Devcic  What do you need? What do you want? How do you decide on need versus want? No matter the size, scale or importance of your editing needs, your budget will ultimately decide what you can and cannot have. Let's make sense of the needs by breaking down the features. The best way to make a buyers guide is to break it down by budget. We are making assumptions about your needs and wants within the budget constraints. The best way to work within a tight budget is to plan around that budget. If you can't get everything you want now, you need to make a list and build your editing workstation slowly. Along the way you will be getting the latest versions, making your editing suite more robust. So why does Videomaker publish an editing workstation buyers guide? The gap between understanding how much of a computer system you need to properly edit video files, and successfully getting the editing program of your choice working at its best abilities is getting smaller every day. For a video producer, there are a number of causes for confusion. When shopping at a big box retailer you will often get sales people that have little to no knowledge of your video editing needs. Are you editing large files? Shooting HD? Working with uncompressed fo otage? Will you...Continue VariZoom Aviator MX-HD Camera Stabilizerby Dan Bruns  With its solid construction, precise engineering and comfortable weight distribution, the Aviator MX-HD is a solid option for keeping shots steady. When people go to movie theaters, they go to watch beautifully filmed footage - not to watch a cinematographer take a roller coaster ride with a camera. However, this is what often happens when operators try to move a camera without the proper balance and support. That's why a quality sled, arm, and vest system are crucial to a good production. They provide a way to keep shots smooth while still allowing total freedom of movement. Unfortunately, quality equipment doesn't come cheap, so a sled, arm and vest system will likely be a significant investment for most video enthusiasts so we put VariZoom's newest camera stabilizer, the Aviator MX-HD, through its paces. When most people plunk down more than $6,000 for a piece of equipment, they want it to be durable. Thankfully, VariZoom did not disappoint. Everything from the monitor to the vest felt incredibly strong and reliable. All of the parts were made of either high-quality aluminum or stainless steel and came in a cu stom padded rolling case for added security and support. Let's face it, balancing isn't easy. From eating balanced meals to balancing a budget, keeping things balanced is notoriously hard to do. Nowhere is this truer than with sled and vest...Continue More New Product ReviewsMusic for Weddingsby Hal Robertson  As a wedding shooter, you won't have the opportunity to choose the music for the wedding ceremony, but you can set the mood for all the video content you create. Music is a powerful element in any video, but wedding video offers a unique challenge. As an editor, you have to balance the look and feel of the wedding with the personality of the couple and, at the same time, provide a product that marks the day with some staying power for future viewings. Knowing what to use, when to use it and how it all ties together works not only for wedding videos, but pretty much any video you create. Let's get this out of the way right now; you can't just throw any song from your iTunes library in the video. Here's a scenario. You shoot a wedding one weekend and, after hours of editing a 'Best Of' video, you pick a song to put underneath it all and upload the whole thing to YouTube. You send the bride a link to the video and move on to the next project. Several days later, you get a call from a frantic bride who tells you the video isn't on YouTube anymore and she's already sent the link to friends and relatives all over the world. You ch eck the link yourself and, sure enough, the video has been removed for copyright infringement. Maybe that Colbie Caillat song wasn't a good idea after all. The simple fact is that you'll be using buyout music, licensed content or original music in your wedding video if you want to stay on the good side of the copyright police. There are plenty...Continue Videomaker heads to NAB 2011 Video Production Show in Vegasby Jennifer O'Rourke  Las Vegas here we come! The Videomaker staff is gearing up for the annual trek to the mecca of broadcast tools and toys: The National Association of Broadcasters, better known as NAB. We will hit the ground running at this year's NAB 2011, (literally - wearing the most comfy running shoes possible!) as we check out the coolest video production gear possible including cameras and camcorders, mics and lights, computers, drives, software and a myriad of other goodies. Throughout the event we will be blogging about our finds, as well as Tweeting and sending updates to Facebook - be sure to "like" us and watch for updates - so you can see gear that we hope to have in our headquarters for review as soon as the manufacturers release them to us. Some of companies we're meeting with...Continue More Videomaker Blogs | ||||||||
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