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Compact SoloVJ Gear – Part one
Among my interest in shooting video in the zen like Solo VJ paradigm, I also research quite a bit on the idea of paring down ones possessions as a means of reducing ones clutter, simplifying your life if you will.
One area that I’ve taken an interest in is in the realm of what solo video [...]
Video Journalism
The Challenge Of Solo Video Journalism – Redux»
Yes – it has been awhile. Too long To be honest.
With the economy having made many a casualty (including yours truly) of Wall Street Corporate Greed, those of us who have the passion to continue when all seems lost, have had much occur in our field of endeavor.
VJ Training
How To Train Yourself in Video Journalism»
MultimediaShooter has an excellent posting entitled “Multimedia Rules To Live By and Seven Steps to Training Yourself”, which I find interesting in that I’ve been doing this for my professional life first as a photojournalist and later on crossing over into the realm of shooting as a solo video journalist.
Post Production
My move to Edius for editing video»
After being an advocate for SONY Vegas since version 7, the latest iteration has become too unreliable to rely upon in my video post production work.
The last project I shot and started initially editing in Vegas Pro 9 resulted in a mess in trying to edit content that had been transcoded to Cineform Neo Scene [...]
The Business of VJ
ABC News Goes VJ»
Michael Rosenblum, the ever present wave maker in the profession of shooting video, has once again proven his point around why the move to the solo video journalist paradigm is inevitable – even more so with this recent announcement from broadcast giant ABC.
Equipment
Thoughts on shooting the Obama Rally with my equipment setup»
On Friday, May 9th, I was fortunate enough to have been given access to cover the rally for Senator Obama held here in Eugene, Oregon as a solo video journalist.
Needless to say, I hadn’t been through a trial by fire like that in many years – reminded me of my daysas an unpaid intern at [...]
Content Distribution
Video Is No Longer The Future of the Internet. It’s the Present.»
Over at dvcreators, a blog posting has confirmed what I have been saying for the past two years – that the Internet will be the primary venue by which content will be viewed.
Creative Process
Pulitzer & Youtube offer $10,000 Prize for Citizen Journalism»
The ground swell of solo video journalism is building – and the announcement that Pulitzer and YouTube are sponsoring a contest for this style of video journalism only adds to the credibility of this newly emerging profession.
Check out the video:
Software
Grass Valley Extends Features of EDIUS 5.5 for AVCHD Market»
Paris, France/Nevada City, Calif., March 2, 2010 — Continuing to extend the reach of its EDIUS® PC-based nonlinear editing (NLE) software, at NAB 2010 Grass Valley™ will unveil the latest updated version, which now includes real time, full resolution AVCHD editing already released for the EDIUS Neo 2 Booster package. This new feature is ideally suited [...]
