Kevin
NAB | We’re Officially BACK from NAB
A whirl-wind tour of the NABshow floor on Monday – followed by the biggest b-roll.net BASH in history – followed by a red-eye flight back to DC – followed by coverage of the Pope… Needless to say I’m a little slow with updates. Amazingly, some of my compatriots worked harder, Read More →
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 →