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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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Franchise recruitment video

October 2, 2011

Franchise companies are always looking to find top talent buy and run franchises.  One of the ways that franchise companies are connecting with potential franchisors is through franchise recruitment videos posted on their websites. Franchise videos are typically longer than the 30 second-2 minutes that we suggest for most online promotional videos and franchise videos [...]

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Producing Conference Video – EventDV Live feature

August 3, 2011

Conference video production is a fast growing market for event videographers. It only makes sense as the appetite for video, especially online, is increasing by leaps and bounds. Earlier this year I completed a four part series for EventDV Live on Producing Conference Video.   Here are the links to all four installments: Part 1:  [...]

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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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Live Video Switching Case Study

July 22, 2010

Back in February I was priveledged to produce a four-camera live switch webcast of the Governor General’s Olympic Youth Dialogue. The event took place on the eve of the opening ceremonies of the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games and we had been working for weeks on the wiring diagrams and set-up for this complicated production. Unlike [...]

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EventDV live – 2nd edition

July 20, 2010

The 2nd edition of EventDV Live was released today. Here is the link to EventDV Magazine’s “Live” e-mag edition, which, as the name implies, targets the live video production market. EventDV Live is a quarterly trade publication. In this edition, I wrote a feature article and a review. The feature is Part 2 of 4 [...]

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Producing Conference Video feature article – EventDV Live

April 1, 2010

Late last year I was approached by EventDV Magazine editor-in-chief, Steven Nathans-Kelly, to write the feature article for the inaugural editing of the new EventDV Live quarterly e-magazine. I jumped at the opportunity as the mandate of EventDV Live fits very nicely with the offerings of my own video production company, Shawn Lam Video. Here [...]

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EventDV Live Olympics Review

March 6, 2010

As a follow-up to my blog post critiquing the video coverage of the Olympics Opening Ceremony on EventDV Live, I wrote a second post summarizing my feelings on the games coverage following the closing ceremonies.  Both discussions compared the US NBC coverage to the Canadian  Consortium coverage, led by CTV and Rogers TV stations and [...]

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Olympic Opening Ceremony Critique – Canada VS USA

February 19, 2010

I watched the Opening Ceremonies for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games with a bit of a different perspective than did most Canadians and even worldwide sports fans – I was watching to see how CTV, Canada’s Olympic network, covered the ceremonies. The 2010 Olympics marks the first time that a Canadian network did their [...]

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2009 BCPVA Distinguished Service Award

December 9, 2009

Update: Shawn Lam featured in The Tri-City News December 9, 2009 edition – Coquitlam Videographer Honoured (Yes, I know the heading says PoMo girl wins film contest, – my part comes in the second half of the article with the sub-head of Coquitlam Videographer Honoured) ___________________________ 2009 is going to be a very memorable one [...]

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