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| All Camcorders Buyer's Guideby Marshal M. Rosenthal  Video camcorders are available in all price ranges and for all types of people - regardless of age or occupation. Knowing the type of camcorder that best suits your needs will result in one happy camper. The use of video camcorders has exploded and, thanks to digital, the features have multiplied as well. Camcorders are as likely to be used by a grandparent as by a grade schooler, although it's in the use that the two will differ. A real difference is the price that comes into play when it's time to bridge the level of sophistication between the casual user, enthusiast and professional. Not that technology can't be had at all price...Continue Samsung HMX-H304BN HD Camcorderby Evan Burt  Delivers about what you'd expect from a medium-end HD camcorder. It's affordable and reliable. Video quality is uneven. If you're in the market for an upgrade, Samsung's new offering may just whet your digital appetite for the holiday season. The Samsung HMX-H304BN camcorder, priced at $500 and offering 1920 x 1080 video, makes a decent splash in the mid-tier HD market.It should be known right from the get-go that this camcorder is very nimble and easy on the hands. At 0.5 pounds and measuring 4.7-by-2.2-by-1.9 inches (WxHxD), it isn't much larger, or heavier than a typical smartphone. Yet it handles extremely well and was very comfortable to use during our field tests. There are just eight buttons on the camcorder - three on top, five on the sides. Most of the major features, such as quality modes and playback, are accessed via the 3-inch LCD touchscreen. Just tap the screen to play shot footage, switch to 720p, apply image ...Continue. More New Product ReviewsSaving Time in Transcribingby Jeff Novich  An efficient step-by-step approach for news and documentary postproduction. For the past four years, I've shot and sold video to companies - news outlets like MSNBC and Yahoo! News, websites like Turnhere.com and CurrentTV - and clients ranging from the New York Restaurant Association to Chinese factories while I lived in Shenzhen. All of these videos included interviews and transcription, which can make postproduction a bit tedious. Through constant revision of my techniques, I've come up with an efficient and even elegant way to edit video. Here are some key tips I've found that are indispensable for scripting and editing interview-laden video. Camera operators are good at shooting. Producers are good at writing and reporting. Editors are good at editing. But these lines are becoming increasingly blurred, and integrating these jobs can be an organizational nightmare. A sophisticated method of organizing the postproduction process is essential to producing video efficiently in the YouTube age. The trouble is, the rise of freelancers who produce news packages has met the economics of supply and...Continue Getting Started in the Video Businessby Daniel Bruns  Of all the great mysteries to solve, it often seems like getting started in the video business is one of the hardest. For whatever reason, there seems to be a distinct lack of agreed-upon advice on how to do it. However, as a videographer who has put a significant amount of years in trying to find the right place to put my foot in the door, I felt it was time to share my findings with the world. Granted, I have yet to make it really big in any area of video but I have been privileged enough to direct live productions at concerts...Continue More Videomaker Blog Posts |
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