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Shawn Lam

Sony NEX-FS700 Review Pre-Release

April 2, 2012

When I bought my pair of Sony NEX-FS100 video cameras last August I knew there were going to be trade-offs when I compared the way I shot video on the camcorders I had used over the previous ten years and my new FS100 workflow.  For starters, the FS100 and its large Super35 sensor allow a [...]

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Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 Feature Predictions

March 29, 2012

A Vancouver Videographer’s Top 6 predictions   for Adobe Premiere Pro CS6   Last year was a good one for Adobe. Long time rival Apple and its Final Cut Pro video editing software program arguably left the professional video editing market when they announced Final Cut X at NAB. Well it wasn’t technically at NAB [...]

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Premiere Pro CS6 Video Editing Computer Build

February 6, 2012

It is time to retire the “old” video editing computer that I built for Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 in early 2009 (pictured below with green trim on the case). It isn’t that it wasn’t fast enough for my workflow but I got an offer I couldn’t refuse to sell it and have decided that the [...]

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Top 5 Video Camera & Video Gear “Top Lists”

January 3, 2012

No – that isn’t a typo in my title. This post is about compiling my Top 5 list of the best video camera and video gear “Top Lists” in 2011. Now I guess I probably should have used “most noteworthy” because I’m going to point out a few selection processes that were a bit soft [...]

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Top 5 Video Production Industry Trends 2011 – Part 5

January 2, 2012

Large Sensor Video Cameras Surpass DSLRs This is part five in a five part series listing my picks for the top five video production industry news stories for 2011. DSLRs that shoot HD video are what many video production companies adopted out of frustration because of the poor video quality produced by the combination of [...]

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Top 5 Video Production Industry Trends 2011 – Part 4

January 1, 2012

External video recorders improve video recording quality This is part four in a five part series listing my picks for the top five video production industry news stories for 2011. At NAB two types of solutions to replace tape-based workflows were presented. Both improved video quality dramatically. Externals HD recorders will be featured in with [...]

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Top 5 Video Production Industry Trends 2011 – Part 3

December 31, 2011

Tape is Dead – Two Heirs Apparent My first pick dealt with how we edit video and Adobe Premiere Pro wouldn’t have experienced the success that it did in 2011 if it wasn’t for Apple releasing a version of Final Cut that was both dramatically different and not what their existing users had patiently waited [...]

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Top 5 Video Production Industry Trends 2011 – Part 2

December 30, 2011

2011 Video Production Industry Year in Review This is part two in a five part series listing my picks for the top five video production industry news stories for 2011. My first selection was the failure of Final Cut Pro X and the rise of Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5. Video Magazines R.I.P. (Rest In Print) [...]

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Top 5 Video Production Industry Trends 2011 – Part 1

December 29, 2011

2011 Video Production Industry Year in Review 2011 is drawing to a close and before I start making predictions for 2012, I thought I’d have a look back at 2011 to revisit some of the video industry developments that I thought were the most significant for the segments of the event and corporate video production [...]

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Sony FS100 Prime lens vs Zoom lens

December 20, 2011

I already know that prime lenses can be sharper than zoom lenses but I wanted to see for myself just how much of a difference a prime lens would make, specifically on the Sony NEX-FS100 Super35mm video camera.  My hypothesis going into this, my third round of lens testing on the FS100, was that because [...]

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