Broadcast Quality HD Production for Beginners: Part 5

Part 5: Editing and Distributing your Video
Now that you have recorded your HD footage, there are several ways to edit and distribute your finished work . In this case, Ottis needed to edit and distribute his finished product to a TV station for broadcast, but he also put an archive of videos up on the shows website, http://www.ofgh.org for people to be able to watch on the internet. With the popularity of internet videos and channels on the rise, knowing how to edit/optimize your videos for the web is definitely a plus. We’ll cover both methods here. 

Broadcast Quality HD Production for Beginners: Part 4

Part 4: Add a professional touch with Character Generation

(Part 4 of 5)
What is Character Generation?
Character generation is the fancy text and graphics animation that you see on the News and other TV programs. It’s also the graphics that you see in the lower third of the screen, or in the left or right corner of your TV. It usually lets you know what station you’re watching or what’s coming up next.

Adding moving text and graphics to your video productions really polishes your work all together, and adding it can be as simple as owning a computer with PowerPoint installed. Ottis uses PowerPoint through his titling computer that is connected to the Datavideo SE-2000 switcher via the DVI-D port. He uses it for animations like rolling credits and show ID. 

Here’s how to add basic CG with PowerPoint just like Ottis did using the SE-2000 switcher:

Broadcast Quality HD Production for Beginners: Part 3

Part 3: Recording the Audio and Video

(Part 3 of 5)
We’ve gotten past the hard part of connecting the video components, and now recording your video sources should be relatively easy. By now you should have tested all your connections, so all you have to worry about is if your recorder is actually recording all the footage. Test this early. Run a few rehearsals (As Ottis does) to make sure you have clear idea of what issues you have to face once you start shooting.

Gifts For the HDSLR Shooter in Your Life

For those of us in the industry who spend most of our life engaged in activities that many of our friends and family don’t really understand, shopping for us can be a daunting task.  Although warned to just get gift cards, sometimes our loved ones insist on getting something more personal.  The result can be a gift that never sees the light of day, is re-gifted or we have to make that awkward request for a receipt which never sets well… 

Hey, how about a MacPro clone to give us the system we need

For professional editors and post-production artists the choice of Macintosh is usually almost a religious decision. We want to nothing to do with the PC, not in the edit suite or with our machines at home.

Macs have always had a prominent place in creative disciplines like graphic design, photography so Macintosh dominated post-production is no surprise. The Mac OS has always felt like it was created as a simpler, more elegant way to work with your computer so that has appealed to the right-brain thinkers since day one.

REVIEW:  Canon XF305 Camera

Photo by Adam Wilt, NAB 2010

It’s hard to believe that twelve years have passed since I bought my first DV camcorder.  My 1998 purchase?  A Canon XL-1.  At the time it was just about the closest thing you could buy to a professional camcorder for under $20,000.  I remember my engineer-friends sniffing at the XL-1.  Their biggest gripe?  That DV only recorded 480 lines of video (instead of a full 486,) at only 25 MBit/sec in a 4:1:1 colorspace.  “No TV station will ever air that (expletive),” they barked.  Boy, were they wrong.

Canon kept coming out with updated versions of the XL-1, adding better viewfinders,  some excellent lenses, and finally HDV capacity.  But somehow the XL-series never seemed to gain the respect among broadcasters that their world-leading"big” lenses enjoy, possibly in part due to perceived “bandwidth bias.”
Well, Canon has knocked that final issue out of the park.

Hands-on with the Panasonic AG-3DA1 S3D Camcorder

Last weekend I attended the two-day Createasphere 3D Production Workshop Utilizing Panasonic AG-3DA1 Cameras in Burbank, and got a good overview of the issues in shooting stereo 3D (S3D) content, as well as some immensely instructive hands-on experience with the AG-3DA1 S3D camcorder.

Sony PMW-F3 Announced

[Updated 2010-11-13: Added link to Jon Fauer’s preliminary report.]
[Updated 2010-11-11: Sony USA press release, shipping date, US prices.]
Sony has announced the PMW-F3, a 35mm-sized camcorder designed for interchangeable lenses. Think 35 Mbit/sec, 4:2:0 XDCAM EX; handycam form factor; new Sony F mount with a PL mount adapter; available as a body only or packaged with three new Sony cine primes (35mm, 50mm, 85mm T2.0). It will ship in February 2011.

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