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Musings and advocacy of the Solo Video Journalist Paradigm. Emphasis on web video journalism, developing compact shooting equipment, editing, techniques, creative vision while remaining true to the journalism perspective.

Posts Tagged ‘Mike Jones’

Camera Size Doesn’t Equate to Content Quality

By Cliff Etzel • May 15th, 2008 • Category: Equipment

Over at Mike Jones’ Blog he has posted what I would deem a warranted scathing commentary on how the vast majority of video shooters equate the size of their cameras to be an indicator of the quality of their content.
And this is especially prevalent with the news videographer detractors who so righteously pontificate about how [...]


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.