As documentary filmmakers, solo video journalists, backpack journalists, digital correspondents, whatever the term, the skills we have as shooters is but a part of the total “Jack of All Trades, Master Of Many” paradigm. We also need to be efficient editors in post production bringing our stories to the timeline and effectively editing the footage, [...]

One of the mainstays for solo video journalists, backpack journalists and digital correspondents is honing the craft of editing their finished video projects.  Without post production editing skills, you’re just shooting video, and today’s video journalist needs to be more than just a shooter. With online content distribution as a viable delivery platform option, many [...]

Those who read this blog know that I am a Vegas Pro user and I have my reasons for it that apply specifically to self contained video shooters.  One of the weaknesses of Vegas is editing the native m2t files, which eat up CPU cycles.  My understanding is, editing AVCHD is even worse.  CineForm has [...]

I recently became aware of the ability of Adobe’s Flash Player having the capability of playing mpeg4 video’s. Why, when there has been such great success with On2′s VP6 codec would Adobe make this feature available? My conclusion is because mpeg4 is a superior format to native flv at the cost of slightly larger file [...]

One of the weaknesses of Vegas Pro is its inability to render Adobe Flash Video files within the application itself. FLV files are the defacto standard for web video content distribution. I discovered a way to create FLV’s via frameserving from Vegas Pro to On2′s Flix Pro.