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.
Sunset Ice – 2009 Figure Skating from Shawn Lam on Vimeo. Video by the Vancouver Video Production Company of Shawn Lam Video of the Sunset Skating Club 2009 Ice Show – Sunset Around the World. Featuring guest pair skaters Nicole Orford & Malcolm Rohon O’Halloran. Video camera: Sony HVR-Z7U and Sony HVR-Z5U. This video demonstrates […]
Exactly a year after getting my Sony HVR-Z7U I purchased the new HVR-Z5U – now I have a matching pair. In general the Z5U is the same as a Z7U except the Z5 comes with a fixed G series 20x lens instead of the Z7’s interchangeable 1/3″ bayonet mount that comes with a 12x Zeiss […]
Update – April 9, 2009: Vancouver Video Production Blog workflow featured on Matrox RTX2 User Forum. After six months of workflow testing I completed my Matrox RT.X2 LE review for EventDV Magazine in December. The article appears in the March 2009 edition. The RT.X2 is a hardware card that provides real-time previews and accelerated exports […]
Update 1 – Polls are now closed. Update 2 – see the 2008 EventDV 25 here Honorees will be announced on March 17th during a special online presentation by editor-in-chief Stephen Nathans-Kelly on EventDV-TV. EventDV magazine announced that voting is now open for the 2008 EventDV 25, the magazine’s 4th annual all-star team of the […]
For the 2nd year in a row I was asked to weigh-in with my picks for the EventDV Best of 2008: Editors’ and Columnists’ picks Last year I chose the integration of Flash Video into the Adobe Production Premium package as my top choice but gave honourable mentions to the Canon XHA1 and Adobe’s Production […]
Even before meeting EventDV Magazine editor-in-chief Stephen Nathans-Kelly at the Video ’07 convention, I had been a big fan of the magazine – the self proclaimed “Authority for Event Videographers”. I had read every magazine since the launch and talked openly about one day wanting to write for the magazine. I attended the convention as […]
Only 7 months after winning an Artistic Achievement Award, Shawn Lam Video was recognized with a Creative Excellence Award from WEVA. The award is a Silver in the Theatrical Productions Category and featured video from the Essence of Dance year end dance recital. Due to the nature of the dance recital season and the annual […]
Valentines day is synonymous with flowers, chocolates, and love. My Valentines day 2008 will be remembered for the arrival of my Sony HVR-Z7U video camera – I received one of the first production models in the world, direct from Sony. Within hours I was reporting to the video world through a variety of blogs. For […]
Maybe I had a little extra inspiration on April Fools Day back in 2006. It was the day after I proposed to my wife (and she accepted) and I was filming a live concert with singer Lori Paul. After all the editing was done and we launched the concert DVD – Songs from Spider Lodge, […]
Well I’ve know about blogs (weblogs) for a while now and figured it was about time I started my own blog. A few of my friends in the video industry have their own blogs so I’m going to start by giving props to them as I admire what they are doing for the video industry […]
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