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    8mm Camera GUN!

    I saw this on Gizmodo today and thought of Terry Toller... http://i.gizmodo.com/5141251/a-vietnam-reporters-8mm-camera-gun-if-looks-could-kill Enjoy!
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    Homebuilt NLE From Scratch!

    I saw this today and thought y'all would like it. I've worked on computers and helped build a couple but this is more "in-depth" than I would care to do on my own. http://www.vimeo.com/1847710
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    MSNBC Honcho: There Are No TV Reporters Anymore

    Found this on Wired.com and thought y'all would like to see it: MSNBC Honcho: There Are No TV Reporters Anymore By Betsy Schiffman July 29, 2008 | 5:51:08 PM Gone are the days of "TV journalism" -- now it's all about "video journalism," or so says...
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    Vegas 8 Pro Tutorials?

    I downloaded a demo copy of Vegas 8 Pro A few days ago. (I'm evaluating it for a personal documentary project.) It looks pretty good but I'm having a hard time figuring it out. I worked with AVID Newscutter before... And Vegas ain't the same. The biggest complaint is that it doesn't look like...
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    How to calculate Day Rates

    Please tell me if this is a stupid question. ----- I'm moving out of news soon and I'm trying to figure out how to calculate day rates. On the one hand, I don't want to undercut the competition and drag down everyone's business... That video with Harlan Ellison drove that point home... On the...
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    Betacam problem

    I have a UVW-100B Betacam SP that has a strange white balance issue. Occasionally the video turns lime green. It is not the result of bad white balances, nor is it the result of bad tape. It has happened to multiple users of this camera under daylight and floresent <sp?> lighting. Any ideas...
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    Lightning

    What is the lightning protocol at your station? How close does a storm or lightning strike have to be before you shut your live down?
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    personal equipment purchase- which microphone?

    I have a serious beef with the nat-sound mics on our cameras here and I want to get my own. If you were getting your own, what would you get?
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    Haiku y'all...

    My damned insomnia is giving me fits tonight so please bear with me. I'm thinking it might be fun to try something a little different and see what people come up with: Photog haikus. Why you ask? Well, when I was in high school, a creative writing teacher sugested haikus as a way of breaking...
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    born or made?

    I don't know how many times I've heard it... "You're either born with a photographer's eye or you're not." I even worked with a man, blind in one eye, who swore that his situation gave him a better ability to understand the single eye of the camera. But is it true? I took the time recently...
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