Production Gear

It has always been the goal of PVC to handpick the best writers in the industry and let them have their own channel.  Since NAB, we’ve added several new great writers; Richard Harrington, Steve Martin (who’ll be writing with Brian Gary and Mark Spencer), Terence Curren and just today, Steve Hullfish.  Each of these guys comes to PVC with a very well established background, fantastic credits and a strong history of writing for this market. 

PVC launched with 7 Founders and is now up to 14 excellent writers covering many parts of the pro video marketplace.  PVC will continue to grow into those areas we aren’t yet covering and will be adding writers well versed in those disciplines. 

Welcome aboard guys. 

In case you weren’t already aware, besides Forums, PVC also maintains a separate community site called Pro Video, and a recently added Linkedin Group affectionately called PVC.

Anyone can join the Pro Video community.  We hope to have the community share their own product reviews, case studies and more.  In fact, it would be great to link to community reviews of products that we also review here at PVC.

The Linkedin Group is a little tougher to get in to.  You need to be able to show that you are a professional in the industry via your existing linkedin profile and resume.  If you sign up, your membership will be reviewed for acceptance.  We try to turn things around quickly however.

As always, we’re happy to get feedback on the site, new feature requests, bug fixes, or even a good old pat on the back to know we’re hitting a positive nerve.  Feel free to comment below, or in the Forums.

Cheers

Good evening Mr. Phelps:

As I mentioned in the Forum FAQ earlier this morning, launching forums on a new website is a tricky animal.  The more categories you have early on, the more likely there will be empty forums.  Of course who wants to visit empty forums, and who really wants to make the virgin posts?  We’ve been sitting back and gauging response and with a request this morning, thought it might be time to launch some new categories.

Yes, of course that now means there are empty forums back there because we just turned them on.  The forums are yours.  Let us know what topics you’d like started and we’ll put them up. 

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to start filling them in with questions, commentary, and more.

Let me know what else you’d like in Forums.  This blog post will self destruct in 5, 4, 3, 2....

Catch them here:  Forums

I find that I am using these two clever tools more and more.  Both are relatively new startups so there’s no telling how long they’ll be around, but word of mouth will hopefully keep them thriving so I can continue taking advantage of them.

First up is ReQall.  In short, I have ReQall as a speed-dial on my phone.  While going about my day, I find myself daydreaming and occasionally might get a great idea, or need to remind myself of an upcoming task.  I hit ReQall speed-dial and I am prompted with a female voice asking me if I’d like to “add” or “ReQall”.  You simply say “add” and wait momentarily for the beep.  Then leave myself a voice message.  Within 5 minutes or less, I get an email of my memo transcribed perfectly.  Then daily I get updates as to my ReQall items.  Think of this as having 24/7 access to a voice recorder and secretary.

The second tool I found myself using during this NAB is Tripit.  Sign up at tripit.com and they’ll ask for your email address or addresses that you frequently use.  Nowadays, upon making any sort of travel reservation such as hotel or airline, you usually receive an itinerary via email.  Simply forward that itinerary you received from, well the hotel, travel agent or whatever, to tripit.  It uses your email address to create an online itinerary of all of your pertinent events.  It goes further to provide directions from the airport to hotel (if necessary), and even supplies you with the local weather forecast for the days location to which you’re traveling. I found it was easier to simply click on my iPhone Tripit icon and get everything quickly and easily.

I’m always on the lookout for more tools such as these as I am inherently lazy, um, creative in finding time-saving tools.  More to come.

I am a automotive nut.

I am a BMW fan.

I have been in video production since college.

This is pure automotive, video production porn.  I need to be alone for a tad.

Here’s the ad:

Here’s the making of…

While not the in-depth making of we would appreciate as pros, it’s still fun to watch.