The vast majority of us use some form of media every single day. Whether you're dealing with CDs, DVDs, video tape, audio tape or floppy disks, you're entering the realm of media.

The camcorder that works for you might not be what works for someone else. What do you really need?

Making day resemble night on your screen means tinting the overall images blue, then adding white light, and adjusting contrtast and brightness to sell the trick.

Hi-Def has become the big catch phrase of the year, but many people don't understand just what the format is and why it will be so important to our TV viewing future.

High-Definition Video Production is a Real Choice

A quick and easy recipe for capturing family memories.

Assemble your own lighting kit--at one-fifth the cost.

Log your shots today to save edit time tomorrow and your well-organized project will thank you in the end.

Essential post-production audio tricks.

Hot new products for the videographer.

The Hi Def Video Sea is changing. Are you ready to take the plunge?

Disc authoring suites are versatile and reasonably powerful one-stop solutions for a wide variety of media management tasks.

Your camcorder's lens is worth protecting, controlling, manipulating, filtering and adapting. These are the tools that do the job.

From the bargain bin to the cream of the crop.

Tripods, stabilizers, dollies and booms deliver the jiggle-free shots that professionals demand.

What Happens when Someone Watches Your Video?

A look at do it your self and professional options to transfer your classic 16mm film (or any other type of film) to video or DVD.

Diffusion is invaluable for softening harsh light and creating natural-looking lighting designs.

The split edit is one of the simplest and most powerful edits you should have in your toolbox.

Mixing multiple audio sources for live video.

Video has come a long way, baby, but its history is a short one. We’ve got ten fun facts you might not know about video.

Special effects! Composites! Miscellaneous spifnificent transmogrifications! All of these, and more, can be yours with a compositing or special effects package.

Goodbye VCR and VHS tape, Hello DVD.

When you only want to edit and edit fast, you might consider a Video Editing Appliance.

The Ins and Outs of Manual Control.

Upside down and backwards, look at the wonders of video technology by taking a journey through the amazing world of your camcorder.

What drew you to the craft?

Take Charge! Don’t miss your best shot of the day to a dead battery.

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Controlling video brightness in your editing system.

Creating and editing your own foley sounds.

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A little planning, your expertise and your camera can turn into a career or at least a little cash when you create a video yearbook.

Fast and efficient, if you want to get video onto your computer (and we assume you do) you'll need an interface card.

Different camera heights serve different purposes and achieve different effects.

Video is a powerful communications tool that requires more discipline than meets the eye.

Available light can be all you need if you patiently think through your options and wisely exploit the location.

DVD may be all the rage, but there is a nearly universal distribution path that has been around for quite a while now.

The best-laid plans of mice and men gang aft agley.

The best way to create effective video composites is to understand video effects.

Understanding the language of digital audio.

Quick Focus

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Don't overlook the tripod: it could save your shoot.

Throw that carousel projector away. Now you can build your own slideshow that doesn't require turning down the lights.

Turn the key to editing ease. Video editing has come a long way from gathering parts piecemeal to opening a box of fully complete systems.

It's time for the 18th Annual Videomaker Short Video Contest.

Personal biography videos are becoming a successful niche service for videographers.

In order to call yourself a professional videographer you need equipment, clients and a good reputation.

The rugged and the glam.

Tips for authoring DVD menus.

Choosing the best microphone for your next video shoot.

Looking hip, slick and cool when you customize that machine.

All of the data on your computer has to be stored somewhere. These are the devices that keep your information at your fingertips.

Sure Sound... Improving your audio may be the best way to improve your video.

Buzz and hum rear their ugly heads. Decapitate these problems with balanced cables.

It's time for the 18th Annual Videomaker Short Video Contest.

Now You Know

How to travel safe in the New World Order.

Lighting to achieve a certain mood is easy if you work with three basic elements: key, contrast and color.

Audio Acquisition Terms

A Four Part Videomaker Series. Part 4: Sweeten It!

Recording the few and far between.

With Filmmaker Shane Moore

A look at inexpensive camcorders.

Camcorder buttons and their uses.

Is it just your imagination or was your computer once a lot faster?

How Long Before the DVD Becomes Obsolete?

Tips for in-camera editing.

How to make and put videos on your PDA.

Supporting lights on location takes patience, ingenuity, and gaffer tape.

Computer Video Editing Terms

You'll never walk alone: a pragmatic guide to worship video from those who have gone before.

Organizing your project before you shoot can save you time during the edit stage.

A Four Part Videomaker Series. Part 3: Graphic It! Making the effects that are oh so cool!

Learning to live with built-in audio controls.

Animation software is becoming more inexpensive and widely available.

If you need to light up your life, you need to learn to control the light.

Focus is much more than just getting a technically sharp image.

Examining the scope of the North American broadcast video standard.

A Look Back at Videomaker Expo West 2004

DVD: More than a Vehicle for Video

Small, portable and battery powered, a video light can save your shots in more ways than you may know.

Simple lighting makes cleaner, more natural images, while reducing production hassles.

Quality talent means more than just a quality performance. It may mean the difference between a one-hour shoot and a four-hour marathon.

A Four Part Videomaker Series. Part 2: Get Editing! Cut, Trim and Pace.

Adding surround sound to your videos with Dolby Digital.

Expand your computer's storage capacity quickly and easily with an external hard drive.

Confused by all the new technology? Relax: DVD authoring can be as easy as pressing Record on your remote control.

Most amateur athletes practice before actually competing. Why should videographers be any different?

How to get smooth, clean keys like the pros.

We welcome the latest members to the elite group of Videomaker/Panasonic Short Video Contest Winners.

Ways in which videos can be used to make a political point.

You have dozens of tapes and hundreds of scenes and shots. Organization isn't just nice, it's a necessity.

It's easy to light two people at once, whether with one light or eight.

This is the first part of a planned 4-part introduction to video editing. Part 1: Prep, Log and Capture.

Planning and creating stereo sound for your productions.

Tips on Producing a Dynamite Demo Reel

Benefits of using a turnkey computer system designed by a system integrator.

Everyone needs new equipment and we have found companies that manufacture equipment for everyone. Here's how to find that fits your fancy.

An image stabilizer primer.

Get in the Game

For novice and intermediate editors, here are some tips to consider as you move towards editing perfection.

Tinted gels, correct white balance, and correct Lighting for digital video can make the different between professional and amateur quality.

Program pacing is a neglected art that may be more important than you think.

Twelve tips for recording the spoken word.

Pragmatic, inexpensive ways you can make your video look more like film.

The ability to mix multiple audio sources together can add a dimension of versatility to your video productions.

The best consumer video products of 2003 as selected by the editors of Videomaker.

Optimizing your video editing computer.

Do You Know Who You Are?

Avoid these 10 mistakes to shoot like a pro.

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An edit bay that can live with the residents of your house.

Recording production audio in your computer.

Lead: How NFL Films created their unique style of football film editing. (and what you can learn from their experience).

Real people say what your friends wish they could.

There are several ways to create professional--and legal--music tracks, depending on your needs, talents and budget.

MPEG-4 explained and compared to other MPEG flavors.

A model release form to use when including people in your video.

Technology for Good and for Evil

Shoot and edit your own transition effects.

How high-speed broadband Internet is changing the course of digital video.

For individual subjects, nothing beats the tried-and-true combo of key, fill and back lights. Classic three-point lighting (key, fill and back light) is sometimes dismissed as "yearbook lighting." True, it can look hokey in story videos, but whenever you have a narrator, a spokesperson, an interviewee or anyone who stays in one place and talks, three-point lighting is bullet proof.

Super-Human Editing Tips

Essential video vocabulary terms.

If video editing is anything, it's a fast-moving target.

Finding and buying the perfect pair of headphones.

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