Archive for May, 2008

Batteries

The usefulness of a camcorder is not only limited to the ability of the videographer but also on the type of equipment he chooses to use and maintain. Maintenance is a vital part of getting good video footage and caring for your stuff allows faults to be found preventing failure in the middle of your [...]

Hoseing Pipe Technique

This form of filming technique is the act of starting a shot and panning left or right as you search for your next object of focus. It is not only dizzying but also prevents you from easily editing your recordings according to the scenes. Experts recommend at least 8 seconds of video on a subject [...]

Black Masking

The process is called so for it makes an old tape free and void of all previous video and audio that has been recorded onto it. It can be easily done with the lens cap on and in an isolated room. It can also be done before getting to bed so background noise is minimized [...]

Long Play Mode – Good or Bad?

Some camcorder’s have this nifty feature that allows you to save more video onto your DV tape (as much as 30 minutes more). There is quite problem though for the tape tends to record slower than the normal rate it is designed to, there is a very good possibility of having lost frames as you [...]

DVD Cam Corders

Have heard a lot of complaints about these types of recorders that some experts say as strictly for amateurs, well not totally for some of these DVD recorders have the ability to use DVD-RW cd’s that can be formatted and written again and again. You can use standard DVD recordables but using RW-disks saves a [...]