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.
Monday April 11, 2011 – Las Vegas, NV Today Adobe announced a updates to much of their Creative Suite, including Production Premium, with CS5.5. So while many news sites are simply listing off the highlights from Adobe’s Press Release, I just published the first comprehensive review of Production Premium CS5.5, including Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5, […]
I’ve been waiting for this camera ever since I first heard of DSLRs being used to produce professional video. Well, now it’s here – or at least a couple of working prototypes, along with specs to pour over in anticipation of this next generation of video cameras. So until I get my hands on a […]
LED lights that mount on videos cameras have been around for only a few years but are catching-on fast for event videographers. One of the reasons is that the old lights usually required heavy lead-acid batteries and a cord connecting the battery (worn on a belt around the waist) to the light. LED lights require […]
How fast is the new Adobe Premiere Pro CS5? I benchmarked Premiere Pro CS4 and CS5 on two of my editing systems and published my results in the October edition of EventDV Magazine. Without any hardware upgrades, CS5 was faster than CS4, thanks to the new Mercury Playback Engine. And when GPU acceleration was enabled […]
Orlando Florida – Vancouver video producer Shawn Lam, owner of Shawn Lam Video, was awarded a WEVA Creative Excellence Award at the WEVA 20th anniversary awards gala held at Disney World. The awards ceremony recognizes the top video production studios in the world in thirteen categories and is selected annually by a new group of […]
Back in February I was priveledged to produce a four-camera live switch webcast of the Governor General’s Olympic Youth Dialogue. The event took place on the eve of the opening ceremonies of the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games and we had been working for weeks on the wiring diagrams and set-up for this complicated production. Unlike […]
The 2nd edition of EventDV Live was released today. Here is the link to EventDV Magazine’s “Live” e-mag edition, which, as the name implies, targets the live video production market. EventDV Live is a quarterly trade publication. In this edition, I wrote a feature article and a review. The feature is Part 2 of 4 […]
I just got an email from the Senior PR Manager at NVIDIA to let me know that my EventDV coverage of NVIDIA during The NAB Show with Shawn Lam was featured in their latest blog post, summarizing their activities at NAB 2010. Here are the notes he sent in his press release pertaining to my […]
Last week I was in Las Vegas covering NAB 2010 for EventDV. I had the opportunity to attend several video industry evening events in addition to working the trade show floor, gathering interviews for my show. This isn’t the first time I’ve been hired as a roving reporter for EventDV – the first was at […]
NAB 2010 is just around the corner – April 12-15. Like most video enthusiasts, I’m excited to hear and find our about all the new announcements. And nothing gets a video guy more excited than a camera announcement. It makes sense – the video camera is the single most important piece of equipment that defines […]
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