Broadcast Pix is making waves as one of the first video production equipment suppliers to jump on the iPad bandwagon.

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Sometimes you get so busy, you realize your head’s in the sand. That’s how I feel about not knowing that finalcutters.com existed. This is seriously one stop shopping for all your 3rd party final cut pro plugins. I used to scour google and apple.com for this stuff. What was I thinking?
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Ok, I’m gonna rant for a second.  I know I’m cheap for buying an HDV camera.  I know that, but it’s the B-camera.  I needed a small cam for small gigs, but why in God’s name would anyone EVER want to shoot anything in auto gain?!  And why God, why would it not be buried [...]

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Appleinsider is reporting that industry insiders believe that Apple will start adding HDMI outputs to the MacMini line within the year. This has long been a desire from the Home theater PC enthusiast. The MacMini was an ideal candidate for an HTPC because of its size and quality home theater applications like Plex. The bugaboo [...]

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Is there anything better than German engineering? Our friends over at b-roll.net have teamed up with German digital filmmaker Friedhelm Fischer to show us how to construct a tripod mounted camera slider on the cheap. Friedhelm is a total trip to listen to, especially when he says “Wideo tripod.”  Mr. Fischer must know me, because [...]

We’re heading to NAB in Las Vegas! Let us know if there is a specific vendor you’d like us to speak with.

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Everyday I see new stuff on the web by people shooting with DSLR’s, and they almost always impress me in some way. Our company has thought about making the move, but we are still noncommittal for a variety of reasons. Not the least of which, is a less-than-ideal audio recording scenario and 12 minute record [...]

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Autonomous Production of Images based on Distributed and Intelligent Sensing – APIDIS will most likely revolutionize the way we view sports entertainment video in the very near future. Sounds exciting huh? How does working in insurance sound? ‘Cause that’s what we’ll all be doing when this little diddy takes hold. I know, I know, how [...]

A friend of mine the other day introduced me to tilt-shift photography for the first time. I couldn’t believe what I saw. In case you are like me and know very little about it, here are some details about this amazing photography technique

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Roll out the red carpet.  Production Apprentice’s crack staff of reporters, specifically John DeMaio and I, are headed to the Addy’s on February 27th in Orlando.  The event is being put on the by the good folks over at the American Adverising Federation of Orlando.  This year’s awards gala is being held at the Orlando [...]