Review: RØDE Reporter dynamic interview microphone

Review: RØDE Reporter dynamic interview microphone 1

Omnidirectional dynamic microphones with balanced XLR connections remain the first choice for most ENG (electronic news gathering) organizations to connect to broadcast cameras or professional audio recorders. I decided to test the RØDE Reporter (which fits that description perfectly) with the extremely popular Electro-Voice RE50N/DB. Ahead I’ll describe the technical and physical differences, and I’ll let […]

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After Effects Hidden Gems Weekly: Basic Behaviors

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When Apple first released Motion, it introduced a new animation paradigm: instead of having to keyframe the start and stop values for every movement, you could apply Behaviors when you could just say “move in that direction at this speed” as well as apply other pre-coded animation instructions. The After Effects team was anxious to […]

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Exploring Workflow, Storage & Archive in M&E: IT and production perspectives

Exploring Workflow, Storage & Archive in M&E: IT and production perspectives 3

Analytical vs creativity, from Shutterstock It should come as a surprise to no one that an editor thinks about a project in a very different way than a systems administrator does. That’s not to say one is better than the other, but the person who’s accessing files on a daily basis isn’t always the one […]

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Sony Starvis: a CMOS to see in the dark

Sony Starvis: a CMOS to see in the dark 4

Visibility under the Starlight is where STARVIS got its name from. According to Sony, this new sensor provides high-sensitivity performance suitable for night filming. Canon introduced recently and displayed at the Canon Expo 2015, in Paris, their Canon ME20F-SH camera with a sensitivity over 4 million ISO, and now it is Sony’s time to show […]

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