Category: Video Production
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Video Production Trade News – Week of 9/1/14
Each week I like to take a few minutes and share select trade news articles with students in my New England Tech classes. It’s critical in any field to remain current, follow emerging trends, best practices, and the various challenges that face the industry. Below are three articles from the past week that we breifly…
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GoPro Phantom
Watching and learning from New England Tech instructor Matt Morin as he pilots his Phantom GoPro rig around the college campus this morning. The stand on the left is hold up an LCD monitor with a wireless link to the GoPro. Weather is great today, although there were some decent wind gusts.  I was impressed with…
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Canon XA25 Low Light & Video Gain Test
A couple weeks ago I tested out Canon’s new XA25 High Definition Camcorder in low light, check to see how it handled different situations. I also turned on gain boost, which normally introducing noticeable grain or noise in the picture. I was impressed with the XA25 low light performance. I was also excited to see…
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SMPTE Presentation & WCVB Tour
On December 14th I attended the SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) New England Section chapter meeting. The presentation was titled “THE LATEST IN HIGH DEFINITIONTELEVISION MOBILE UNIT DESIGN”. Two local companies made presentations, Little Bay Communications and Thistle Communications. Below are photos from the event, mostly from the WCVB Station tour which…
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Live Stream – Cumberland School Committee 2/9/12
If I get enough wireless signal in the meeting room, I plan to stream tonight’s Cumberland School Committee Live. I’ll also videotape the meeting on a separate camera and post on YouTube ASAP. If everything works out, you should see live video (below) around 7:30pm. Watch live video from mwebber1 on www.justin.tv
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Blue Microphones Tiki, Mikey Digital and Spark Digital hands-on — Engadget
Blue Microphones Tiki, Mikey Digital and Spark Digital hands-on By Richard Lai posted Jan 10th 2012 8:35PM Hands-On We swung by Blue Microphones’ booth at CES to get our hands on its trio of new mics, and while the Mikey Digital and Spark Digital (the former for iPhone and iPad, and the latter for iPad…
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Foxborough 9-11 Memorial Dedication Highlights
This is a short highlight video that I put together for Foxboro Cable Access, the day after we covered Foxboro never Forgets 9/11 Memorial Dedication. The video was cut using Final Cut X, with heavy use of FCP’s Ken Burns effect throughout the piece.