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From: Kim Fatica on Twitter (http://twitter.com/kimfatica) Kim Fatica has declared Friday to be Assignment Editor Day. Being one of the worst jobs in a news room, Fatica recommends you “give some love to your AE Friday!” Rule #1: No complaining about getting the short straw on the house o’ cats with the lazy reporter. Rule [...]

I received an email this morning… Dear KEVIN: Due to some recent eligibility changes by the publisher, your complimentary print subscription to Digital Video Magazine has ended. As an avid video enthusiast, we’d like to offer you a print subscription at our lowest professional discount rate. Get 12 issues for just … For a number [...]

UK shooter and review artist, Philip Bloom takes a look at the new JVC GY-HM700 HD Camcorder. I saw this in person at the recent Northern Short Course. It’s a cool little camera with the cheapest “tapeless” media you can buy ($16 for 8GB cards from Amazon). There is definitely a battle in this “small [...]

I was critiquing student tapes at the NSC this weekend and realized a flaw with b-roll.net. We want the site to be a learning environment, but if these students had posted their stories online, they would have been eaten alive by some of the more aggressive b-rollers. I don’t want to stop people from giving [...]

I spent this past Friday night and Saturday in McLean, VA at the NPPA Northern Short Course. Even though I have never understood the naming conventions of the NPPA courses – Flying Short Course,  Driving Short Course, Walking Long Course (ok, I made the last one up), they always attract the nation’s top shooters to [...]

Cine Gear Expo 2009 is announcing its new location at the Paramount Pictures Studio Lot, Hollywood CA. This unique and highly focused event for the Pre-Production, Production, and Post Production Community will be held on the Paramount back lot (New York Streets), with all theaters and screening rooms within walking distance for participants.  There will [...]

After watching this, I realize that I should go back to putting Kimberlea in front of the camera, and not me. Here’s the latest on NAB preps from a guy who should stay behind the lens.