The Datavideo SE-2000 Kit for Large Outside Venues

Pickathon is an indie-roots music festival located in Happy Valley, Oregon just outside Portland.  Taking place on 80 acre Pendarvis Farm, the festival boasts six stages ranging from the side-by-side main stages to the unique stage nestled in the woods (aptly named the “Woods Stage”) to the must-see Workshop and “Galaxy” Barns. Recently they obtained 4 Datavideo SE-2000 Kits to help with their live stream of the festival.

Videomaker Review: DN-60 CF Card Field Recorder

If you’ve got an aging DV or HDV camcorder whose heads are beginning to fail, or perhaps you simply want to step into the digital age, but your older camera still delivers great footage, then strapping a direct-capture-device onto that prized piece of video history may be exactly what the geriatrician ordered.

Like all of us, camcorders eventually begin to age and parts don’t work as well as they once did. Even then they may still have a lot of life left in them and aren’t ready for the Soylent Green factory just yet. With two cameras fitting that description, a Canon XL2 and a JVC GY-DV100U, one begins looking for the camcorder fountain of youth. Some great products exist on the market today that are quite capable of meeting that need, but may be cost prohibitive, particularly when you have multiple units waiting to be sprung from the video retirement home. The Datavideo Corporation, however, may have come to the rescue with its DV/HDV Compact Flash card recorder - the DN-60.

The SE-900 based Mobile Production Studio at Elizabethtown College: Part 1

Andy Williams, Director of Broadcasting in the Department of Communications at Elizabethtown College has been working hard over the last year to develop a portable production studio that gives E-town’s Broadcast students real-world experience with live TV Production. He completed the project this summer to create the “E-town Mobile Production Studio” shown here.  He’s been involved in broadcast television for over twenty years, the last 15 working at an NBC affiliate, and he came to Elizabethtown College about three years ago.  Elizabethtown College is a private college in Pennsylvania that has focused curriculum in liberal arts, fine and performing arts, science and engineering, business, communications and education.

On-Location Sports Coverage with DICHO & HECHO Productions

DICHO & HECHO (“Said & Done”) Productions, a startup production company in Guatemala City, Central America, recently purchased Datavideo’s HS-2000 HD Mobile Studio to cover various sports events and other on-location productions in Guatemala. Because founders and directors Daniel Borrayo and Lyn Kachler had an extensive background in HD TV Production, they were particular about what equipment to use as their production staples when they started their new company. In fact, Daniel Borrayo had considered several options before choosing the HS-2000 Mobile Studio.

Amtrak: Keeping Us Safe at Super High Speeds!

In late September of 2010, Amtrak announced plans to have a high speed rail line in the Northeast U.S. that will connect Boston, New York, Philadelphia and DC, and move at up to speeds of 220 mph. A train that fast would cut a 426 mile, 8 hour trip for most East Coast travelers, down to 2-3 hours. That’s fast! Even on Amtrak’s fastest rail car to date, the Acela train (150 mph), that trip still takes 6.5 hours. Since Amtrak passenger trains are a part of life for most people on the U.S. East Coast, cutting the hours of travel for their customers is one of Amtrak’s top priorities.

However, it’s some years before the 220mph rail line becomes a reality, and there’s still one thing that Amtrak cares more about than transporting their passengers quickly: keeping all rail cars and passengers safe at all speeds today, and in the future. The safety inspection process that Amtrak has developed over the years has made it so that it is easier to check a large distance of track quickly so that both high-speed and conventional rail-cars can benefit.

The HS-2000 for Public Affairs Coverage:

When looking for a hand-held mobile studio that was feature-filled and could handle HD, Tony Pronko, Engineer at C-SPAN in Washington DC, stopped looking when he found the HS-2000.

A lot of the high definition footage that is shot for C-SPAN requires that a field crew be on-location, and many sites do not easily accommodate for a professional production crew. Having equipment that is not only compact, but can easily be set up and taken down is one issue on a list of things Tony had to consider. Fortunately, he found that the HS-2000 was just right for what they needed- a super portable unit that has a lot of features in one box. 

The HS-2000 at Screenplay Magazine’s Media and Innovations Summit

Earlier this year, Ken Pyle at Viodi LLC, contacted us about what equipment he could use to switch and record multiple video sources and computer sources for a setup he was creating for Screenplay Magazines Media and Innovations Summit (at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles) in September of this year.

The SE-500 in Studio and Live through Fiber Optics!

Ralph Score, video production and web coordinator at Valley TeleCom Group produces video programming exclusively made for Community Channel TV1, a cable channel provided by Valley TeleCom Group in Arizona. He calls himself “the guy who you don’t pay attention to behind the curtain” – but he’s mainly responsible for making sure the magic happens by keeping all the engineering and technical direction on a production tight. He was kind enough to share with us the flexibility and usage that he has when using our SE-500 4 input switcher for a variety of shoots in the local community.

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