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Affordable HD

Encoding Best Practices, Part 1

By Jan Ozer

This month I take a break from our HD production chores to look at streaming-related issues. In this first installment, I’ll share the results of a survey I recently completed that details the best practices of high-profile broadcast and corporate streaming producers, examining options such as codec choice, video resolution, audio and video data rates, and frame rate...

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BlogLive @ Siggraph 2008
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Shoot Tools: Focus Enhancements

By Dan Ochiva

The Focus Enhancements FS-5 hard-drive recorder is the company’s latest version of its Direct To Edit (DTE) model, which adds metadata capabilities, additional file-format support, and UDF disk formatting....

Shoot Tools: Air Sea Land Gear

By Dan Ochiva

The BluFish 2 HD underwater housing from Air Sea Land Gear, features include dome- and flat-port optics and a rotating collar with 1/4in. taps that allow the housing to be mounted to multiple grip arms and devices. ...

Shoot Tools: Panasonic

By Dan Ochiva

The Panasonic AJ-P2C064 P2 card provides 64GB of storage....

Shoot Tools: Maxell

By Dan Ochiva

At the 2008 NAB Show, Maxell will be showing its version of the iVDR format with its Field Archive Media, configured for backup and archiving in the field....

reviews & features

HDV Camcorders Focus Page

Digital Content Producer articles and external resources on HDV camcorders...

Shoot Review: Canon XL H1S

Reviewer: D. W. Leitner

Senior Contributing Editor D. W. Leitner reviews the Canon XL H1S camera, an impressive update to the user-friendly XL H1...

Edit Review: AJA Video Systems Io HD

Reviewer: D. W. Leitner

Mention video I/O for the Mac, and chances are Kona card will enter the conversation even among production people who know little about Mac-based editing...

Edit Expertise: Storage Shootout

By Dan Ochiva

Solid-state storage drives (SSD) are generating a lot of noise as the putative next big thing, but spinning-hard-drive storage isn't going away any time...

Shooting for Streaming, Part 1

By Jan Ozer

This month’s offering is a drama showing just how far a man will go to prove that he's right (or perhaps, not wrong). What’s in it for you besides the guilty pleasure of reading a desperate nail-biter? It’s called stealth learning...

Test Drive: Panasonic AG-HMC70, Part 2

By Jan Ozer

Back again with the $2,100 (street) shoulder-mount Panasonic AG-HMC70. In the previous installment, I evaluated features and usability. Here, I’ll look at quality and summarize the comparison of the HMC70 with the $1,900 Sony HVR-HD1000U HDV camcorder, the HMC70’s closest competitor...

Test Drive: Panasonic AG-HMC70, Part 1

By Jan Ozer

The basic value proposition for the Panasonic AG-HMC70 is this: You get shoulder-mount stability, up to 32GB of SD card storage for AVCHD video, and good but relatively inaccessible exposure and related controls for less than $2,100 street...