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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 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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Adobe CS5.5 Max Render Quality & NVIDIA GPU acceleration

November 10, 2011

Key Lesson:   GPU acceleration gives the same level of render quality as Maximum Render Quality, even if you don’t check the Maximum Render Quality box.  But instead of a performance hit, you gain a 6-7x performance boost. Let me start-off by saying that Jan Ozer is my favourite video technology writer and speaker. I [...]

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2011 BCPVA VIA awards – in the news

May 19, 2011

Last month I was attending the National Association of Broadcasters trade show in Las Vegas on behalf of the BCPVA and EventDV Magazine. As a BCPVA delegate I was charged with selecting BCPVA Video Innovation Awards. A month later, news of the awards has spread across the internet, and the world, with reports from USA, [...]

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BCPVA Video Innovation Awards at NAB 2011

April 21, 2011

While working the Las Vegas Convention Centre floors for NAB, the video industry’s largest trade show, I had two important roles.  I was representing EventDV Magazine & EventDV Live as a contributing editor and product reviewer and at the same time, the BC Professional Videographers Association, as the delegate in charge of the new BCPVA [...]

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Adobe CS5 review in EventDV Magazine

November 15, 2010

How fast is the new Adobe Premiere Pro CS5? I benchmarked Premiere Pro CS4 and CS5 on two of my editing systems and published my results in the October edition of EventDV Magazine. Without any hardware upgrades, CS5 was faster than CS4, thanks to the new Mercury Playback Engine. And when GPU acceleration was enabled [...]

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Shawn Lam featured on NVIDIA blog

April 22, 2010

I just got an email from the Senior PR Manager at NVIDIA to let me know that my EventDV coverage of NVIDIA during The NAB Show with Shawn Lam was featured in their latest blog post, summarizing their activities at NAB 2010. Here are the notes he sent in his press release pertaining to my [...]

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Speech to Text and 64-bit Performance in Adobe Production Premium CS4 – EventDV

October 13, 2009

Adobe Production Premium CS4 was released just about a year ago and it includes all the software titles an event video producer requires on a daily basis: * After Effects CS4 * Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 * Photoshop CS4 Extended * Flash CS4 Professional * Illustrator CS4 * Soundbooth CS4 * Adobe OnLocation CS4 * [...]

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September Blog Preview

September 1, 2009

September is shaping up to be another busy month for Shawn Lam Video. Here is just a peak at some of what you can expect to see on the Vancouver Video Production Blog. WEVA Expo 2009 – September 14-17.  My Expo experience is going to start with the opening gala and awards presentation, where I [...]

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Shawn Lam to attend NAB 2009

March 29, 2009

The NAB Show – the National Association of Broadcaster’s annual digital media industry event for audio, video, film, and communications professionals, is the world’s largest electronic media show. The exhibits at the trade show will take place between April 20-23, 2009 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. I’m planning on attending this trade show of [...]

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