How to pick a handheld digital mic for a smartphone/tablet

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Frequent readers know I review lots of microphones and audio interfaces, among many other things. One of the fastest-growing segment is audio/video production with a smartphone or tablet. Beyond the previous additional quality achieved by sending a digital audio signal to your phone or tablet and bypassing its often inferior ADC (analog to digital converter), […]

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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – Chroma Keying Part 2 – SpectraMatte

Let's Edit with Media Composer - Chroma Keying Part 2 - SpectraMatte

In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe continues the discussion on Chroma Keying by talking about the SpectraMatte effect. […]

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The Best of ProVideo Coalition: 2017

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2017 saw a number of major developments for the industry as a whole, and many of those updates were explored and showcased on ProVideo Coalition via news items and feature articles throughout the year. On the last day of 2017, we wanted to take a look back at everything that resonated with our audience this […]

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Review: Sennheiser HandMic Digital with “secret” hardware limiter

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The HandMic Digital from Sennheiser is the only dynamic mic I’ve encountered that ships with a Lightning cable, since the others I have used and reviewed have been electret condenser. It’s also the only microphone I’ve ever reviewed with a switchable built-in hardware limiter, although I have tested audio interfaces and mixers which include this […]

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LG will show new HDR600 monitors at CES 2018

LG takes new HDR600 monitors to CES 2018

At CES 2018 in Las Vegas, LG will introduce upgraded models of its popular monitor lineup with Nano IPS technology, ideal solutions for media prosumers. With the introduction of a standard for HDR, which will be presented at CES 2018, companies are preparing their models to comply with the requisites. LG is one of the […]

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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – FrameFlex and Larger than HD Image Sequences

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In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe answers a viewer question about working creating Pan & Zooms with image sequences that are larger than the current raster dimension he is editing with. In this lesson, we talk about linking to 4K Image Sequences, and how to manipulate them, by working with the FrameFlex Parameter! […]

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Directly attach iRig Pre HD to an ENG omni dynamic mic

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After my review of the Senal ENG-18RL omnidirectional dynamic microphone for ENG (electronic news gathering) in 2016, my friend Francisco Javier just had to have one. For informal, single microphone interviews in the field, many broadcast news organizations have long preferred using dynamic omnidirectional mics due to their falloff, robustness and forgiveness of inevitable unexpected […]

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Combating Computer Vision Syndrome

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More than anything, editors and motion graphic designers have one tool that more important than anything, and that is their eyes.  You eyes are probably the most important tool you have, and eye strain can be an absolutely debilitating problem if you’re not paying close enough attention to what your eyes are telling you.  In […]

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Top Products of 2017 for Video Production

top products for video production

It was not easy narrowing down our selection because there were so many exciting video production products released this year! Many of the products on this year’s Top Products list are NDI based, IP production technology from NewTek, which allows you to transmit audio and video over standard GigE networks. We’ve posted several videos this […]

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DxO re-releases Nik Collection in 2018

DxO re-releases Nik Collection in 2018

Available free to download during Google’s ownership period, Nik Collection will be back in 2018 as a paid software, adding to the extensive number of solutions available for both Mac and Windows. March 2016, Google announced the whole Nik Collection of plug-ins was available to download for free. Users did not need to pay the […]

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