April 2008
NAB | We’re Officially in Vegas
I don’t have DirectTV, but I”m so glad that jetBlue does! It was the only thing that kept us sane while waiting for air traffic controllers to let us take off. It seems some bad weather was diverting tons of flights. After a one hour delay sitting in the plane Read More →
Your Own Personal Feed Room
From: Andrew Finlayson, Vice President and News Director, Fox News Chicago We are working on a website called www.LiveNewsCameras.com The concept is simple, let people watch news as it happens anywhere in the world… raw, unedited on your computer at work or home. It started on Super Tuesday with just Read More →
YouTube in Surround Sound
From: Chris Stuard, WVEC-TV 13, Norfolk, VA One thing that has always annoyed me is when a producer or intrepid reporter would want me to shoot a video off the computer with sound (especially off the laptop in the field… Can we say YouTube?). After repeatedly being frustrated by micing Read More →
NAB | First Toy to Look For… FS-5
We don’t even leave to explore the NABshow for a few days, and I’m already checking out new equipment. I’m excited to see first hand the new FireStore FS-5 from Focus Enhancements. At quick first glance, it looks as if it has a monitor to view video on the unit Read More →
New and Improved b-roll.net TV DATABASE
We’re putting the finishing touches on a greatly expanded b-roll.net TV DATABASE. This valuable resource contains the information for 875 television stations around the country. The basic camera format question has been supplemented with other categories like: Station Name (Call Letters) Market (DMA) Analog Channel Number Digital Channel Number Station Read More →
Xtender D-Pro
I’m excited to have the folks at D-Pro join b-roll.net as a sponsor. Granted we love all our sponsors – they help keep b-roll.net alive – but D-Pro has a new toy that I want to play with. The D-Pro Xtender is one of those products you dream about creating Read More →
Lowel-Light Joins b-roll.net
Starting out in the “shooter” business, there were certain products that seemed to be the standard of the business. You weren’t a “real” shooter until you had a Electro Voice RE-50, a Lectrosonic wireless, a Porta-Brace on your camera and a Lowel-Light kit. It was my goal working in Market Read More →