Video

New to the world of video production and unsure what gear to buy? Our guide to the five best options in three categories will get you started.

Neat Video is designed to deal with the kind of chroma (colour) and luma (black and white) noise that appears in digital video...

With the ever-increasing number of users turning to DSLR still cameras for video, more and more accessories are being released...

Picture this: you're working in an edit suite and the director comes and looks over your shoulder. "Let's try a lens flare”,...

Rycote made waves in the studio world recently with their universal shockmount, which improved on the ageing 'cat's cradle'...

With so many different bundled and third-party colour correction plug-ins available, do Colorista 2s new features offer anything special?

Rotolight enter the competitive LED lighting market with a compact, battery-powered offering and plenty of accessories.

New to the world of video production and unsure what gear to buy? Our guide to the five best options in three categories will get you started.

GoPros HD Hero promises high-definition footage in the most inhospitable of conditions, so how does it hold up to punishment, and is it right for other video capture tasks too?

New to the world of video production and unsure what to buy? Our guide to the five best options in three software and hardware categories will get you started.

Canons 550D (known as the Rebel T2i in the US) promises the same video quality as their acclaimed 7D, for half the price. Is this now the cheapest way to make a high-quality video?

Zooms H4N audio recorder has been very well received. Can the new Q3 repeat that success by throwing in video as well?

In the second part of this short introductory series, we cover the more technical aspects of film-making, demystifying some of the jargon that might trip up the video newbie.

The arena of video production can seem daunting, but most audio engineers will find their skills transfer quite easily. In this introductory article, we cover the basic process of making a video from start to finish.

Canon up ante for DSLR videographersImprovements in the frame

Canon's camera division have been very busy recently, releasing a...

The Kaoss Pad Entrancer builds on the success of the Kaoss Pad 2, offering the same versatile X-Y pad-driven audio processing capabilities, but adding video processing to give you real-time control over both sound and vision.

We look at the reliability of hard drives and investigate some innovative video-related products from Sony, which could soon be commonplace in the audio world.

One of the easiest ways of achieving synchronisation between music and pictures is to run both on the samecomputer. Hugh Robjohns talks to a writer of music for broadcast who does just that.

With the growth of digital television and affordable solutions for recording audio to picture, many musicians are keen to get into writing and recording for visual media. In this introduction to the series, Hugh Robjohns investigates basic working methods and suggests some system requirements.

I am aiming to write music for TV and have been trying to practise on TV programmes recorded onto video. I own an Atari...

Always eager to expand their experiences, Mainframe duo Murray Munro and John Malloy talk to Ian Gilby about the processes involved in the shooting of the promo video that accompanied their recent Polydor single release.