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 [...]

Learn how to use the Zebra Stripes feature to improve your image quality when shooting video

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 [...]

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.