Videocraft Workshop’s Start Editing Now! Classroom Workshop Edition includes three DVDs: one DVD-Video disc with a teacher’s guide and lessons and two DVD-ROMs containing three different workshops to teach students basic cut editing, dialogue editing and scene pacing.
Fire up the editing systems and get ready to rumble! The 20th Annual Video-maker/Sony Short Video Contest is about to commence. Are you ready to pull some all nighters? Set your creativity free on your video, and you might just win recognition and a prize. Our prize closet is filled to the gills with great stuff from Sony, JVC, ProDAD, TriLab, Photoflex, Grass Valley, Glidecam, Hitachi, Pinnacle, SmartSound, Blackmagic Design and Ritek, among others.
Each site is based on the concept that you have a talent that you would like to share with the Internet viewer, and you have the skills to capture that talent on video. It’s time to share your knowledge, share your skill and broaden your friend base. Watch for more video sharing site news here in Videomaker.
The landscape of “How To” video sharing is growing, and we’ve been telling you about it from the beginning on Videomaker Presents. Now we’ll be bringing you more video-sharing news right here in the magazine. Learn to become an expert in your field, or just share something you know how to do. We’ll be finding and reporting on ways you can hook up with video-sharing sites that revolve around the idea of sharing a hobby or passion.
There are more and more Web sites being created every day on video sharing and the community that the sharing creates.
There’s still time to enter the Panasonic Share the Air video
contest. The contest is looking for positive and original 24-second video entries that interpret the phrase “Share the Air.” Sample videos can be found on the Web site, along with contest rules (of course), and they also give you free downloadable music to use in your video. Take that, copyright cops!
The 11th Annual Webby Awards were held in New York City recently, honoring excellence in Web design in more than a hundred different categories, including Web site content, structure and navigation and interactive advertising.
The annual Webby Awards included a specific video category for the first time. Winners included the vidcasters of Terra: The Nature of Our World and the Extreme Diet Coke and Mentos Experiment, guys who have also been nominated for a daytime Emmy in the new Broadband Variety category.
If you haven’t caught the Internet video sharing fever yet, perhaps now is the time. YouTube fanatics and content producers have spilled out of the virtual and into reality with such events as the “seven, seven, o’-seven” (that’s 7/7/07) meetup in New York City. It’s a great time to be a video enthusiast, and we’re here to share that experience with you in the virtual and in the flesh.
With a 4GB SD memory card, up to 165 minutes of video can be recorded at the highest quality setting. The E1 comes in 3 different colors to complement your swimsuit or other water-related recreational equipment. But we’d still like to know: will it float? Blackmagic has added a little “backwards compatibility” with its Intensity HDMI card by adding analog capabilities. This will give video editors much more flexibility, allowing them to capture and play back video from devices using component or S-Video connectors and two channels of 24-bit audio using RCA connectors.
Summer months are full of adventures and the Sanyo Xacti E1 looks to be well suited for all water-related activities. The waterproof E1
camcorder ($499 MSRP) is submersible to a depth of five feet for up to 60 minutes. It’s companioned with a 1/2.5″ CCD which records advanced MPEG-4 video at 640 by 480 pixels and at a rate of 30 frames per second. Additionally, 6-megapixel still images can be taken simultaneously with recording onto SD-and SDHC-compatible memory cards.
A facial recognition feature that can track every frame a selected person appears in and catalogue them for your perusal. Be forewarned: if they get any smarter, the next generation of Sony camcorders may just make “you” obsolete.