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| How to Get the Best Audio from HDSLR Camerasby Hal Robertson  Curious video shooters checking out HDSLRs love the video capturing, but find audio gathering cumbersome. Here are some tips for HDSLR video and audio acquisition. Have you joined the revolution? Many video shooters have switched from traditional camcorders to HDSLR still cameras. The reasons are pretty simple. For around $1000, you get a fully functional high definition video camera, interchangeable lens options and super shallow depth of field for a very cinematic look. Plus, as a bonus, HDSLRs take pretty nice still photos, too. But one of the biggest downsides is capturing audio. HDSLRs are designed for photographers, not videographers, so the audio features leave something to be desired. Of course, if you want the visual quality, it's worth looking for audio options and there are several out there. We'd all love a couple of nice, secure XLR audio inputs on our camera, and...Continue Datavideo DN-60 Field Recorderby Mark Holder  Lacking some of the bells and whistles of its pricier competitors, but Datavideo's DN-60 compact flash card recorder gets the job done at a fraction of the cost. If you've got an aging DV or HDV camcorder whose heads are beginning to fail, or perhaps you simply want to step into the digital age, but your older camera still delivers great footage, then strapping a direct-capture-device onto that prized piece of video history may be exactly what the geriatrician ordered. Like all of us, camcorders eventually begin to age and parts don't work as well as they once did. Even then they may still have a lot of life left in them and aren't ready for the Soylent Green factory just yet. With two cameras fitting that description, a Canon XL2 and a JVC GY-DV100U, one begins looking for the camcorder fountain of youth. Some great products exist on the market today that are quite capable of meeting that need, but may be cost prohibitive, particularly when you have multiple units waiting to be sprung from the video retirement home. ...Continue. More New Product ReviewsDSLR/HDSLR Buyer's Guideby Videomaker Editors  DSLR - Short for Digital Single Lens Reflex. Since all marketing departments these days love an acronym they decided that cameras needed a new one. The birth of the HDSLR. The letters HD in the camera we've been calling an HDSLR do not stand for high definition; an HDSLR is a Hybrid Digital Lens Reflex Camera. The hybrid was added because these DSLRs were very special. Not only do they take amazing still pictures, but since Nikon's release of the D90, they now shoot incredible video. As with everything hybrid, there are pros and cons to using a camera originally made for shooting still pictures as a video camera. The first and biggest advantage to using an HDSLR is the ability to change the lens . Being able to use a choice of lenses that changes upon the situation or the shot has been a hallmark of all professional filmmaking. Additionally, some of these cameras are able to shoot in full HD at 1920 x 1080 with your choice of frame rates from the standard 24p, 25p, and 30p. Some also allow you to shoot in 1280 x 720 at 50p or 60p. Although the first DSLR that could shoot video was introduced by Nikon in 2008 with the D90, HDSLRs didn't immediately catch on as video cameras. By 2010, however, film and television...Continue OK Go, Arcade Fire, and Danger Mouse Redefine Music Videos Using HTML5by Daniel Bruns  Video may well have killed the radio star, but until recently the internet had yet to kill the video star. Though plenty of music videos have been sold and watched through online portals such as Apple's iTunes and YouTube, they have in reality, stayed the same. The only difference was that instead of plopping down on a couch and watching your favorite band's music video on TV, you could sit in front of your computer watching the videos you wanted to see when you wanted to see them. That was until now. Harnessing the power of HTML5, several innovative bands have now created online music videos that have upped the ante in how fans can interact with their music. Instead of the tried and true method of piecing together multiple clips and letting the viewer sit back and watch, these bands are allowing fans to not only choose what they want to see in the music video but are making the place you grew up part of the story as well. In the latest iteration, OK GO, a longtime internet star going all the way back to their famous...Continue More Videomaker Blogs |
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