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Zacuto Makes a Shoulder Mounted Still-Cam

The folks at Zacuto must be like Q‘s lab from 007. They come up with cool innovative products and put their own style and flair on it. They latest “spy” equipment is the DSLR Gunstock. Basically it allows you to take a motion picture capable still-camera (like the Canon EOS Read More →

Iranian-American Journalist Charged With Spying

From: NPPA.org WASHINGTON, DC (April 8, 2009) – Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi, who has been detained in Iran’s Evin prison for three months and who was thought to be facing imminent release, has instead now been charged with spying. Tehran’s deputy prosecutor of the Iranian Revolutionary Court Hassan Haddad told Read More →

b-roll.net Makes it into Print

It was like going back to school and working on a term paper, but I recently finished an article that appears in the most recent issue of Broadcast Engineering. The March 2009 issue of the industry magazine just started shipping, and you can find my article, “What’s in your bag?” Read More →

John Gross at NSC

There isn’t anyone in his audience that thinks John Gross lacks creativity, energy or passion. His work and his talks grab your attention and keep it.  The Minneapolis based one-man-band works at KSTP-TV, and at a recent Northern Short Course presentation, he had the crowd laughing, jumping and hitting the Read More →

NewsLab.org Interviews Darren Durlach

Deborah Potter of NewsLab.org had her trusty little camera at last month’s Northern Short Course in McLean, VA, and caught up with NPPA and b-roll.net AWARD winner Darren Durlach. Here are a few of the video interviews: Thanks to VideoJournalist.ca for the heads up.

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b-roll.net CHAT was a Success

Thanks to everyone who stopped by the b-roll.net CHAT last night – moderated by Shawn Montano. A lot of great editing tips and questions were tossed around and I hope everyone came out with a little more knowledge then when they started. Thanks Shawn for working to keep us on Read More →

b-roll.net CHAT with Edit_Foundry on Monday

It’s time to restart the b-roll.net CHAT, so join us Monday, March 30, 2009 11:30pm ET for our first of our chat series. Shawn Montano, award-winning Denver-based editor, will help moderate a discussion of video editing. Shawn’s blog and twitter feed Edit_Foundry has tons of tutorials and tips to improve Read More →