Buster Design's PSA for Matt Damon Endorsed Charity ONEXONE Becomes Focus of Web Parody Buster, the conceptual design division of award winning agency and production company Stun Creative, has conceived and produced a PSA for the Matt Damon endorsed charity, The "ONEXONE" Foundation. The PSA spot brings attention to the fight against hunger for children around the world and features an appearance by Academy Award winner Damon. ...Read More »

FIRST LOOK: JVC HM-100u By Heath McKnight The JVC HM-100u ProHD camera may be small in size, but it's packing three Full HD (1920 x 1080i/p) CCDs that capture great image quality, and it uses Sony's SxS/EX technology to deliver a tapeless workflow on affordable SDHC media cards. Plus, if you're a Final Cut Pro user, you can shoot directly to QuickTime for even faster importing and editing. ...Read More »

Unfiltered Entertainment's Wake the Witch By John Virata Unfiltered Entertainment, Inc., worked over the months of September, October and November of 2008 to finish shooting Wake the Witch, a direct to DVD psychological horror/suspense feature film that is expected to be released through Amazon.com and Filmbaby.com this month. The company edited the film in Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 and shot the film using JVC's GY-HD250U camcorder, shooting more than 20 hours of footage during the course of 24 days. ...Read More »

Australian conservationist and adventurer Malcolm Douglas By David Hague Conservationist, adventurer and raconteur Malcolm Douglas is well known to most Australians and many overseas via his Channel 7 films on Australia and the stunning Kimberley in particular. David Hague took a spin through Broome recently and caught up with Malcolm for a chat. ...Read More »

First Look: Panasonic AG HMC150 AVCCAM camcorder By John Virata Back in 2005, my aunt asked me to videotape her wedding. Now I am not a professional videographer, but rather, over the years I've enjoyed shooting video with all types of cameras, be it via my digital camera, my Flip video camera, to a variety of miniDV cameras. So I agreed to tape her wedding. ...Read More »

Maintaining News Quality Standards with Citizen Journalism By Miles Weston Every TV news department has been hit with staff and budget cuts at the same time they are being told they must improve the quality of their work. One "solution" that has been advanced is soliciting consumer spot news content or as management likes to call the folks, "citizen journalists." Problem is most of the content received is garbage. The slimmed down news team has to enhance the quality...tough with no people, no budget. But a low-cost solution will help...some!!!! ...Read More »

BoinxTV By Kevin McAuliffe I have to admit that the first time I heard the name "Boinx TV", I had to chuckle a little. A very interesting name for a product I knew very little about. I had heard that it was a "one-man production studio," to which I thought "yeah, right!" Well, needless to say Boinx, the developers of Boinx TV (BTV), have a very interesting and unique program. ...Read More »

Going one better: RED editing and what Vegas 9 has under the hood By Mike Jones There's a substantial history of camera technology being released to the public before the technology of post-production has caught up. HDV springs as an obvious example where the long-GOP structure was fantastically efficient for image acquisition and recording but presented considerable issues for non-linear editing systems traditionally reliant on individual frames and not groups-of-pictures. AVCHD presents the same issue where shooting is easy but timeline performance is less than stellar. And Sony's XDCAMEX is a great balance of quality and efficiency but it's wrapping in an Mp4 format initially gave many NLE's considerable trouble. ...Read More »

Profile: Living Black produced and presented by Karla Grant, SBS Television Australia By David Hague In 2009 Karla Grant is in her 7th year as Presenter and Executive Producer of Living Black, SBS TV's prime-time national Indigenous current affairs program. Karla was appointed Executive Producer of SBS's Indigenous Media Unit in 2002 and from there, developed the concept for Living Black which first aired in February 2003. ...Read More »

Keying virtual backgrounds for "Hellevator" By Heath McKnight In the past two to three years, I've been relying more and more on using green screen and chroma keying for my film and video work. After working with visual effects (FX) artists, I began to realize there is nothing complicated when using software to key virtual backgrounds and sets in. ...Read More »