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Video Analytics and YouTube

November 8, 2011

Have you ever wondered how many people look at your videos?  I’m not talking about the number of viewers who start to watch a video – I’m talking about how many viewers watch the whole thing.  I know I have.  Part of the reason is that for my clients I want to be able to [...]

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Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 review by Shawn Lam

April 11, 2011

Monday April 11, 2011 – Las Vegas, NV Today Adobe announced a updates to much of their Creative Suite, including Production Premium, with CS5.5. So while many news sites are simply listing off the highlights from Adobe’s Press Release, I just published the first comprehensive review of Production Premium CS5.5, including Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5, [...]

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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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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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Rechargeable Batteries Outlast Alkaline Batteries

March 4, 2010

Back in October I wrote a rechargeable battery blog post about my confusion with the use of rechargeable specifically in wireless lavaliere microphones.  After a few months of investigations, and spearheading a movement to have a defective battery charger recalled, I released my findings in this article in the January/February edition of EventDV Magazine.  My [...]

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Battery Charger Meltdown Part 3

December 31, 2009

Update on Battery Charger Meltdown Part 1 & Part 2 & Part 4 _____ I mentioned yesterday that Amazon completed an investigation and concluded that the La Crosse BC-9009 “is safe if used as intended and has been reinstated for purchase.” I wrote this reply back to Anthony Dunkley, the Amazon Customer Service Executive: (note [...]

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Battery Charger Meltdown – part 2

December 22, 2009

Update to Battery Charger Meltdown Part 1. Battery Charger Meltdown Part 3 Battery Charger Meltdown Part 4 December 28 2009 UPDATE to Part 2: I received an email from Anthony in Amazon Executive Customer Relations I’ve confirmed that your concern regarding the La Crosse Technology BC-9009 AlphaPower Battery Charger has been fully investigated by Amazon.com, [...]

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Battery Charger Meltdown

December 19, 2009

February 10, 2010 Update: LaCrosse announced it has identified the problem behind the rash of battery charger meltdowns and is voluntarily replacing the affected A/C adapter, which is outputting too much voltage. If you have a LaCross BC-9009 purchased between October 1st 2009 and January 15, 2010 and your A/C adapter has the roman numeral [...]

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What’s the deal with rechargeable batteries?

October 23, 2009

I’m in the process of replacing my Sennheiser Evolution 100 lav mic systems with the new Sennheiser Evolution 100  G3 ones (because they have diversity) and decided to revisit my battery choices. In the past I was simply using Alkaline AA’s from Costco (Kirkland) but didn’t like the fact that I was constantly throwing them [...]

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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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