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  • Creating Content for Broadcast Stations – Color is the Answer

    Creating Content for Broadcast Stations – Color is the Answer

    I’ve had the occasion of creating videos for local broadcast affiliates, A.K.A. TV Stations.  Creating video for these stations is challenging because many of them have specific requirements for the video they air over their stations.  One approach is to buy the equipment these stations...

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  • Understanding Color Sampling

    Understanding Color Sampling

    One area that every videographer/editor must deal with is color correction. To do it well, its help to understand what “color space” you are working with and why you are working with that color space. Color space, for those of you that are fairly new...

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  • I’m Making the Leap to ProRes … I think

    I’m Making the Leap to ProRes … I think

    I’ve been working with native HDV video in Final Cut for the last year and a half. Some of that in Final Cut Express and most recently in Final Cut Pro. For most purposes, the HDV format has been fine with two noticeable exceptions: render...

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  • Video Is Not 72 Dots Per Inch

    Video Is Not 72 Dots Per Inch

    Taken in part from the Final Cut Studio 3 Help system: There are many things to struggle with in the video world.  One item that, for one reason or another, has been difficult for me to wrap my mind around is how to prepare images...

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