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Posts Tagged ‘Avid’

The Broadcast Spectrum and Post Production

By Cliff Etzel • Jun 25th, 2010 • Category: Latest Posting

When we as solovj’s, backpack journalists, digital correspondents and/or documentary film makers talk about producing content for broadcast, in the past it was a clearly defined paradigm meant for traditional broadcast venues ie; television. Today, the broadcast spectrum is much wider – entailing not only television, but also internet content distribution to multiple platforms including [...]



Hearst Television going SoloVJ

By Cliff Etzel • Apr 20th, 2010 • Category: Video Journalism

According to broadcastingcable.com, Hearst Television has signed a deal with JVC to utilize the GY-HM100 ProHD camcorder as the foundation for their rolling out their move to the backpacker journalist concept. I say it’s about time.



Video: Why Sony Vegas Pro?

By Cliff Etzel • Dec 16th, 2008 • Category: Software

With all the hoopla about Final Cut Pro and Avid being the industry standard, I chose to go a radically different route for my post production tools and there’s compelling reasons why – watch this video and you’ll see why I advocate Sony Vegas Pro as the BEST, easiest to learn and most efficient NLE [...]



So what is the editor’s job? Vegas 8 and production philosophy.

By Cliff Etzel • Oct 13th, 2007 • Category: Post Production

Mike Jones has posted a great analysis of the perspective of what editing is and where it is headed. Of course, he looks at the so called professionals choice, Final Cut Pro, and compares it against my favorite forward thinking NLE -Vegas Pro 8.