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| Field Recorders & Mixers Buyer's Guide - Record it and Mix it in the Fieldby Stephen Joseph  When it comes to video production, no sound equipment bag is all-inclusive without a portable field mixer and recorder. To understand how vital sound is to video productions, imagine spending your hard-earned money going to a big budget movie shot in IMAX and 3D that has superior picture but substandard sound quality. Chances are you would walk out of that theater requesting a refund. Well, sound quality is as significant to the video production as it is to a major production budget. Many important pieces of equipment popularize the world of video productions, but the audio field mixers and recorders transcend the profession by delivering unparalleled reproduced sound that generates maximum results over the camera operator working the sound. Before you decide to purchase an audio field mixer, there are many dynamics to consider. Portability, power, durability and cost being the most crucial among them. First, let me point out that sound in video production, shoots entail more than having a decent shotgun microphone...Continue Atomos Ninja Field Recorderby Luke Scherba  Impressive digital recording warrior! The Atomos Ninja is an excellent addition to any camera rig and is a cost-effective means of media recording. The simple math of tape cost should interest anyone shooting on tapes to make the switch. One of the major challenges of videography is the recording limitations. Not only are CF cards expensive and easy to fill, most DLSR cameras won't record a continuous video file longer than 12 minutes. Tape formats on the other hand, such as Mini DV and HDV, add up when you are purchasing new tapes for every shoot. Hard drive cameras are constricted by codecs and lack the ability to change the drive once it's full and you don't have the time at the moment to copy it, or might not have a place to copy it to. Here is where the Ninja strikes! Particularly crucial in DSLR shooting, the Atomos Ninja is the perfect match for nearly every shoot. One of the great advantages of video on DSLR cameras is the incredibly high resolution. Utilizing a camera with super- high resolution far beyond standard definition NTSC, DSLR cameras are quickly becoming the popular kid on the block. These DSLR cameras however, are not...Continue. More New Product ReviewsThe Right Mic for the Jobby Hal Robertson  The audio side of video can be intimidating for the newcomer and microphone choice is certainly toward the top of the list. Every shoot is different and while a single camera can work in just about any situation, microphones have more specific roles. Whether it's recording studio microphones with a sound mixer, or a run-n-gun field shoot with no other sound equipment, One-size-fits-all doesn't apply here. It's easy to get bogged down in all the types of patterns, electrical connections, shapes and sizes. Then you have to decide if microphone A is really worth it to you. If your eyes are blurry from catalogs, spec sheets and online vendors, let us insert a little clarity in your search for the right microphone. For just a bit, let's think about the audio recording equipment required for the Discovery Channel's Dirty Jobs. If you've never seen the show, you have to look it up online. Host Mike Rowe and his crew visit a wide variety of locations seeking the dirtiest jobs in America. Waste processing, pig pens, sewage ponds, meat packing, the list of dirty locations numbers in the hundreds. And his audio crew has to be ready for just about anything. In addition, they don't work in a studio, so their audio...Continue Predictions About How Lytro-like Tech Could Change Video Foreverby Mike Wilhelm  Earlier this year, Lytro unveiled a camera that lets you take a photo, then adjust the focus afterwords. The current model only shoots 1.2 megapixel still photos (1080×1080 to be precise), but Lytro CEO Ren Ng recently dubbed using the Lytro technology for video "a possibility" but noted that it would need more processing power. Considering Lytro is a consumer product, it's not outside the realm of possibility that a prosumer priced camera could meet the processing demands of a Lytro-esque camcorder. I predict that not only will we see this technology used in video, but similar technologies will work their way in as well. Being the first product of it's kind, it stands to reason that what Lytro is currently showing us will improve with time. That is, it will be able to handle higher megapixel photos and video. Just look at the evolution of the digital photo in the last fifteen years as an example of how fast the technology...Continue More Videomaker Blog Posts |
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