Often called “walk-and-talk” recording, videographers are often confronted with recording the audio of subjects in their workplace or during an interview with two or more people walking in full motion. Here’s how to insure excellent audio.
For every media organization, accurately valuing media assets is critical to understanding and maximizing potential revenues. This is particularly true given the costs and challenges of creating, distributing, and monetizing content — whether TV series, news programming, or feature film — from production and premiere through syndication.
In the previous Cloud Broadcasting article, we looked at Agile software development and its relevance to cloud computing. In this article, we delve further into Cloud-Born systems and investigate the differences between public and private clouds and where you might want to use them.
When recording live audio with a dynamic microphone, a good recordist may want to know what is the maximum sound pressure level that mic can handle without distorting. As with many such seemingly basic questions in audio, the answer is not so simple.
ITV’s prime time drama from Leftbank Pictures relied heavily on visual effects to create a stylised 1940s look, The eight-part production is set in a glamorous five-star London hotel during World War II and stars two of the UK’s most acclaimed actors, Steven Mackintosh and Olivia Williams. The d…
CES 2017 has come and gone with most press reporting Virtual Reality landed with a virtual thud. My view of CES is different because I see two very different types of VR.
With the current generation of videographers, a mounted on-camera microphone is considered a major upgrade to the camera’s built-in microphone. But when a video producer seeks true excellence in field audio, boom microphones come into play.
Companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Adobe strive to transport the best video over the internet that supports the most devices. 4K UHD content traffic further drives the goal of a single video format that can be displayed on any device. While many solutions have been proposed, MPEG-DASH is increasingly…
One of the most popular microphone specs is frequency response. However, is the frequency response spec really an accurate description of a microphone’s sound characteristics?
My recollections of Ilpo Martikainen go back to 1983, which turned out to be an interesting year. Finding myself once more in Eindhoven, this time for an AES Convention, I mused that the newly announced Compact Disc had shifted the audio quality bottleneck firmly onto the loudspeaker and that something would h…
