Tag Archive for: EventDV Magazine

The NAB show with Shawn Lam, on EventDV

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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…

Rechargeable Batteries Outlast Alkaline Batteries

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Back in October I wrote a rechargeable battery blog post about my confusion with the use of rechargeable specifically in wireless lavaliere microphones. After a few months of investigations, and spearheading a movement to have a defective battery…

Olympic Opening Ceremony Critique – Canada VS USA

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I watched the Opening Ceremonies for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games with a bit of a different perspective than did most Canadians and even worldwide sports fans - I was watching to see how CTV, Canada's Olympic network, covered…

2009 EventDV 25 voting now open

Voting for the 4th annual EventDV 25 - recognizing the video production industry's most influential videographers is now open until January 15, 2010. Winners will be announced February 24, 2010 on Eventdv-tv.com Cast you vote here: http://www.eventdv.net/eventdv25/register.aspx Rules:…

Speech to Text and 64-bit Performance in Adobe Production Premium CS4 – EventDV

Adobe Production Premium CS4 was released just about a year ago and it includes all the software titles an event video producer requires on a daily basis: * After Effects CS4 * Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 * Photoshop CS4 Extended * Flash CS4…

Vancouver Video Producer featured in Videouniversity Webcast #4

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Following the success of my first webcast for Videouniversity, owner Hal Landen has released a follow-up webcast, featuring a review of the Primera Bravo II disc publisher, and referring back to my original review of the Ily Athena Duplicating…

WEVA Expo 2009

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For the 6th year in a row I attended the annual WEVA Expo, the event video production industry's largest and longest running convention and trade show. As you can see by all of my colourful ribbons, I was pretty busy with several responsibilities: Red:…

September Blog Preview

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September is shaping up to be another busy month for Shawn Lam Video. Here is just a peak at some of what you can expect to see on the Vancouver Video Production Blog. WEVA Expo 2009 - September 14-17. My Expo experience is going…

Sony HVR-Z5U review – EventDV April 2009

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…

Matrox RT.X2 LE review in March EventDV magazine

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…