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  • Podcasting & Vodcasting: Educational Solutions Looking for a Problem

    I’m at a technology and learning conference at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN today and tomorrow. It’s part of my day-job life as an educational media producer, but it’s also a good opportunity to get a glimpse at what educators are trying to do with technology, and there’s many lessons to be learned for…

  • Even more HD… Sony announced palm-sized HDV cam

    Yes, I do think this will be the year that hi-def video recording becomes mainstream for advanced amateurs and independent videomakers. Sony just announced a small palm-sized HDV camcorder with a retail price around $1700, the HDR-HC3E. It’s a single CMOS chip cam, like the HDR-HC1 I blogged about on Monday, only the new one…

  • Speaking of HD…

    Sony introduced a new HDV (High-Def on miniDV) camcorder this model year at a relatively low price of $1600. It only has one chip, but it’s a CMOS instead of a CCD, which means that it’s less susceptible to inter-pixel distortion. DV Guru has a short review of the HDR-HC1 and finds that the camera…

  • Pocket-Sized Flash-Memory Hi-Def Camcorder — NY Times Says It Works… Kind of

    Last month I posted about Sanyo’s newly announced high-definition camcorder that records to flash-memory cards, instead of tape. I admit that the concept is very enticing, but that most attempts at a flash-memory consumer cam have been lackluster. The Time’s David Pogue got his hands on one for one of the first reviews, and he…

  • The Big Steve Jobs Macworld Keynote, Boiled Down for Media Producers

    I pay attention to the big Macworld keynote with half-interest. I’m not primarily a mac user, though I have a work-supplied PowerBook and we do have a G5 in our production suite. Work is getting more Mac-centered, so I guess I’m wading in. So I’m glad that DV Guru has distilled the Macworld announcements to…

  • How Good Is Your DVD-/+R media?

    I’ve been burning DVDs since the first DVD-R burners came out six or seven years ago. And, generally, DVD burning has been a dicier, more error-prone proposition than CD burning, whether it’s just data DVD-Rs or video DVDs. The type and brand of media has always been a question and a variable. At work I’ve…

  • When Will Hard Drive Camcorders Become Viable for Independent Producers?

    This year JVC released a line of consumer camcorders that record to hard drives instead of tape. There’s even a higher-end prosumer version that has 3 CCDs. It’s a great idea, since in theory it should eliminate the need to import video in real time to an editing PC by playing it out via firewire.…