Classifieds on PVC!

We’ve been adding a lot of new areas to PVC lately.  We launched Webinars and have two planned for this month; Chris and Trish Meyer on CS5, and Allan Tépper’s Pro Podcasting webinar.  We also launched a PVC Amazon Store where you can buy books from our writers, as well as everything on Amazon.  Why buy through PVC?  Because it’s a way that you can support PVC to continue delivering great, objective editorial content.  In addition, we recently launched our own store selling some great products called CreativeProStore.

Today, we’re starting an experiment for classifieds.  If you’d like to sell your used gear on PVC, head on over to PVC Classifieds.  Right now, there’s only one entry because we just launched.  It’s free to list, free to browse.  Since it’s in beta, please let us know what categories you’d like by replying to comments below.  We’ll get it set right up!

PVC Webinars - First One is Tomorrow!

PVC is focusing on webinars in a big way moving forward.  Having some of the finest writers/technical gurus in the market, webinars are a great way to share information via online training.

Our first webinar is tomorrow with Allan Tépper:  Pristine Web Vide Tuesday June 8, 1pm Eastern.  Register NOW as it’s your last chance!

Here’s what you’ll learn:

• How to create a single pristine, optimized video file for the web, which is playable both with a Flash player (even on Windows, without QuickTime installed), as well as on an iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Blackberry multimedia models, and Google/Android phones.
• How to determine the ideal bit rate for any particular video, quickly and easily: You’ll learn both the tool and the technique.
• HTML5, H.264, and Flash: What you need to know about the present and the future.
• When (and when not) to de-interlace your material, and at what step in your workflow.
• Inexpensive software & hardware tools that improve quality and save time when you encode for the web, or various other SD and HD devices.
• Legal and practical reasons why you are sometimes better off using your own web server, rather than certain popular free web streaming services like YouTube and Vimeo.
• Discounts for all attendees on software, and on flat-rate web hosting with unlimited bandwidth.

Adobe Would Like Your Assistance with A Survey

Adobe would appreciate your participation in a survey regarding your production and post-production workflows.

By completing the survey, you will be entered into a sweepstakes for a chance to win one of five (5) $100 B&H Photo Video gift certificates.

The online survey is conducted by an independent research firm, Decipher, and should take about 7 minutes to complete.

Please click here to begin the survey:

http://v2.decipherinc.com/survey/adobe/ado09013?list=3

Thank you very much for your help. Your opinion is important to us!

Covering the X Games from a Photographer’s Perspective

If you’re a fan of the X Games, or even just a fan of great photography, check out his latest entry on ProPhoto Coalition

ToonBoom Special San Francisco Event Monday

I love toying around with ToonBoom.  As there’s lots of interaction with video and animation, this might be a great little event next week if you live in the Bay Area.  Here’s the scoop:

Toon Boom CEO Joan Vogelesang and CTO Francisco Del Cueto will be presenting “More for Less”. As the animation software global leader, Toon Boom is well placed within the animation network. 
Come and learn about the current state of the worldwide animation industry and find out directly how you can access our global corporate network.  The best animation talent lies right here in North America!  Let us examine together how we can maximise your potential through Animate.
Francisco will demonstrate why Animate is quickly being recognized as the tool of choice by animators and studios around the world. 
Exclusive $399.99 Animate vouchers for attendees (applicable to new licenses only).  Appetizers and drinks will be served. The event is FREE.

Attendance prize: one copy of Toon Boom Animate.

Date: Monday, July 13, 2009, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Location: Marriott San Francisco, Room: Foothill G, 55 Fourth Street, San Francisco

Pre-register at: http://toonboom.makeswebsites.com/
(click on RSVP)

Newsletter Update

A few weeks ago, we published our second free newsletter: PVC Pipeline | Post. During that time, subscribers had exclusive access to the articles it contained. These articles are now available for all PVC users to view; a list of them is included below.

We are about to publish our third newsletter: PVC Pipeline | Distribution. It will contain an article on video podcast production from Alex Lindsay, an audio podcast of a roundtable discussion on distribution organized by the folks at FreshDV, a review of Übercaster by Allan Tépper, as well as other articles. To receive exclusive access to these articles before everyone else, click here for your free subscription!

Apps4Phones Enters Beta

Apps4Phones is just going into beta and we’re on the hunt for seriously knowledgable writers who understand any or all of the following: iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Google Android, Palm Pre and more.

What’s the site about? 
It truly is the fastest growing segment of the tech industry, and there are lots of phone applications to choose from.  Apple knocked one out of the park with the iPhone and the Apps Store, now everyone is getting in on the action.  BlackBerry seems ready to launch their Apps Store perhaps as soon as April 1.  Palm will have theirs, Google Android already has theirs and there’s more coming…

Sure it has little to do with PVC, except that the same great model that we use to attract the best writers in the industry, will be used in our sister Apps4Phones.com site.  In addition, there are cetainly plenty of video and photography focused phone applications already, with more to come.  Just take a look at Allan’s recent Roxio post.

It’s still early beta, and full potential.  Feedback is always welcome.

Coming Soon: PVC Pipeline Newsletters

ProVideo Coalition (PVC) was launched in February 2008, and we appreciate the positive response we’ve received from our fellow video professionals. Now that it’s February 2009 (where has the time gone?), we are launching a line of newsletters: PVC Pipeline, which will contain original articles written by PVC authors. Subscribers receive advance access to these articles before they appear on the rest of the PVC website. Subscriptions are free; just click on the link in the upper right corner of each page, or here: SUBSCRIBE

The first newsletter - PVC Production Pipeline - will be released in a few days, and covers the subjects of cameras, lights, editing, and other production-related matters. The first issue is evenly divided between reviews and techniques pieces, including:

• Adam Wilt reviewing the Sony HDW-650F HDCAM Camcorder
• Steve Hullfish reviewing the Adobe live-capture application OnLocation CS4
• Allan Tépper reviewing the video production live command center BoinxTV
• Bruce Johnson sharing how to build a lighting kit out pieces available at any home center or lumberyard
• Kendal Miller illustrating how to take advantage of depth cues when compositing your shots
• Art Adams explaining what that innocuous “gain” control actually does, and how to best employ it

The second PVC Pipeline newsletter - due around the first of March - will cover the area of post-production, while we’re still cooking up which subjects to cover in our third newsletter (suggestions welcome!). So make sure you subscribe, and then keep your eyes on your email inbox for the first edition of PVC Pipeline.

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