Technology and Innovation

Does the key light look like it is coming from a natural source in the scene, or is it a mysteriouslight? Carefully scrolling through the scene will answer these questions and show you the subtle changes the director made in the lighting when shooting closeups versus long shots. Lighting is a fine art that should enhance the production. Every time you watch a new film, the lighting lessons you find are invaluable in improving your lighting skills and design.

Focus FS-4ProHD 60GB Digital Disk Recorder
FS 4Pro HD 60GB provides 4.5 hours of DV.’HDV recording and is capable of recording in the M2T file formal as well as the unique QuickTime HDV format for Direct To Edit use with Apple Final Cut Pro, in addition to eight available DV25 DTE file formats including AVI Type 2. QuickTime. Matrox AVI and Canopus AVI.

Video Editing Software for Mac
? HDV and DV Editing •LwType Titling
? Soundtrack Scorng • Movie Integrate
• Photoshop File integration • Mate Export
• 99 Layer Comooslting • Voice-oveis Made Easy
• Real-Time Effects Previewing ? Advanced Color Correction

3-CCD MiniDV Camcorder
• Leica Dicomar Servo/Manual
Wide Angle Lens with Stops
and Barrel Markings
• 24P/30P/60i Cinema Recording
• RGB Gamma Processor
-3x 1/3″ IT. CCD with 41 OK Pixels
I Ox Optical Zoom and Smooth
Cam-Driven Manual Zoom Lens
• Optical Stabilization
• Selectable B/W& Color
Vlewfinder with 235k Pixels
• 3 Customizable User Presets

MiniDV Camcorder
• 1/3′Advanced HAD CCD with 3.3 Megapixels
? Primary Color Filler
• Carl Zeiss Vario-SonnarTOptics
• lOx Optical, 120x Digital Zoom
? Progressive Shutter System
• Super Electronic SteadyShot
• 5 Lux (0 Lx in Super NightShot)
• 2.7′Wide 16:9 LCD w/123k Pixels
• Line In Analog/Dig Recording
• Memory Stick Duo Slot
• Built-in Flash

Call an organization that has an event already scheduled, video cameras, like an environmental group that will be planting trees. Ask them if you can videotape the digging and say that they can use the video in the future to promote Mother Earth. Don’t forget to tell them you’re giving the video away for good!

Get a release form from everyone who is on camera. There would be nothing worse than having your nonprofit sued because someone didn’t want their face shown. By asking for a release, you are also making sure that it is clear to everyone that the video might be shown to the public as part of a promotion.

To achieve a full color RGB image from a Bayer Pattern sensor, complex interpolation algorithms are needed to avoid glaring color artifacts on edges. As computer processing power advances, the adaptive algorithms needed are now being seen in cameras with one chip.

Muvee Technologies Inc.’s AutoProducer 6 software is a remarkably user-friendly way to add a semi-professional sheen to holiday, vacation, wedding and other family-oriented videos, through the use of its unique style overlays. These templates superimpose a variety of textures and effects to what would otherwise likely be fairly pedestrian footage. But in Muvee’s rush towards simplicity, its engineers may have created a product that risks alienating professionals and more serious amateurs.
On the plus side, AutoProducer 6 is about as simple as video editing gets.
The program’s slick, handsome GUI and its easy-to-follow workflow intuitively walk the user through the steps. First you import raw camcorder footage into the PC, either straight from the camcorder or from your hard drive, in most popular formats, including .asf, .avi (including DV), .mov, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, .mp4. .wmv and .3gp. Then you add any desired still images (such as a slideshow) to the timeline.

The HC7 is light, well balanced and sparsely outfitted with external controls. Zoom, mode and photo controls are within easy reach of your right index finger, and your thumb hovers naturally over the Record button. Only five other buttons and one switch are on the camcorder’s body; one button is assignable to different tasks. The small color viewfinder pulls out about %” from the body, giving you reasonable clearance from the battery below.