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About Shawn Lam
Shawn Lam is a professionally accredited videographer and owner of Shawn Lam Video Inc. a Vancouver video production company. Shawn has been recognized with four major video production awards and is a recognized video industry writer and product reviewer who has published over 100video production articles.
Entries by Shawn Lam
Tutorial: Connecting Content-Creation Workgroups with the ProMAX Platform Portable Y
This video production tutorial originally appeared on Streaming Media Producer Whether you need to connect multiple workstations together with shared storage or multiple storage devices to a single workstation, the ProMAX Platform Portable series has you covered. Whether you need to connect multiple workstations together with shared storage or multiple storage devices to a single […]
Gearing Up for 4K Production, Part 3: Storage, Throughput, Switching, and Delivery
This article originally appeared on Streaming Media Producer and was delivered as a talk at Streaming Media Producer Live Two big issues that concern almost everyone making the jump to 4K and UltraHD are throughput and storage. How are you going to manage and transfer all those additional bits? Two big issues that concern almost […]
Gearing Up for 4K Production, Part 2: Cameras and Lenses
This article originally appeared on Streaming Media Producer and was delivered as a talk at Streaming Media Producer Live In part 2 of our 3-part series on gearing up for 4K live production, we’ll explore the cameras and lenses available today for professional 4K production. When I talk about cameras with other video producers, one […]
Gearing Up for 4K Production, Part 1: Connectivity, Codecs, and Capture
This article originally appeared on Streaming Media Producer and was delivered as a talk at Streaming Media Producer Live We’ll begin this 3-part series with a look at the two 4K formats and a discussion of why you’d want to shoot in 4K today even though most viewers and potential clients aren’t demanding it, and […]
How to Integrate Real-Time Social Media with Streaming Video
This article originally appeared on Streaming Media Producer Viewers interacting with a second screen while consuming content is not something that we, as producers, have much control over, but by integrating real-time social media with streaming video we can try to maintain viewer engagement and encourage them to use their second screens to interact with […]
Sony a7S Full-Frame Mirrorless Camera, Part 3: Video Camera Review
This article was originally published at Streaming Media Producer In the last two articles in this 3-part series on the Sony a7S, we covered a lot of ground discussing what to look for in video lenses and lens adapters for the Sony e-mount that is native to the Sony a7S. Now it is time to […]
Tutorial: Grass Valley ADVC-G1 Converter
This article was originally published on Streaming Media Producer Some video switchers have built-in scan converters for converting VGA signals to an internal standard that you can use in your live production workflow. If you don’t have that, then you’re going to need a converter like the Grass Valley ADVC-G1 that can convert that VGA […]
Sony a7S Full-Frame Mirrorless Camera, Part 2: Adapting Lenses to the E-Mount
This article was originally published on Streaming Media Producer Now that we have covered some of the important characteristics of lenses from a videographer’s perspective, we’ll discuss several of the lens-and-adapter combinations for E-Mount cameras, like the Sony a7S, that are also relevant for the Sony FS100 and FS700/R. Now that I have covered off […]
Review: Canon XF205 Professional Camcorder
This review was originally published on Streaming Media Producer The Canon XF205 pro camcorder resembles the acclaimed XA25 consumer model introduced last year in several respects, but adds welcome features such as individual rings for iris, zoom, and focus; 2 additional channels of internal microphone recording; 1080/30P HD-SDI output in the XF205, and more. As […]
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