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Posts Tagged ‘Vegas Pro 8’

Mpeg4 Videos in Adobe Flash Player

By Cliff Etzel • Jun 20th, 2008 • Category: Post Production

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 [...]



Applying Solo VJ Skills to Commercial Work

By Cliff Etzel • Jun 10th, 2008 • Category: The Business of VJ

Given the current state of the economy, and the challenges facing shooters who are transitioning or who have done so to compete in the market place, the notion of giving up some sort of ethical standard and so called “stooping” to shooting such types of work as events or weddings as “degrading” is doing yourself [...]



Thoughts on shooting the Obama Rally with my equipment setup

By Cliff Etzel • May 18th, 2008 • Category: Equipment

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 [...]