Archive for the tag 'b&h photo'

May 11 2008

Finding the Right Microphone for Interviews

Published by under Audio

B&H Photo’s newsletter recently featured an interesting, very detailed article on choosing the right microphone for interviews. As we’ve written before, most consumer camcorders have an onboard microphone, but it should be avoided if sound quality is important. The onboard mic will pick up ambient sound (traffic, wind, dogs barking etc) as well as the [...]

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Mar 28 2008

B&H Photo Offers Web Tutorial for Video

Published by under Video

The latest B&H Photo and Video Newsletter includes some very helpful tutorials. If you’ve been experimenting with using video on the web, through services such as YouTube, take a look at this tutorial on optimizing video for online viewing. It explains codecs and compression, and it looks at 3 different software packages. The discussion of [...]

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Jan 04 2008

Sony Vegas – Cheap!

Published by under Software

The full edition of Sony Vegas is one of the most powerful video editing programs available. It is also quite expensive. List price is $585.00. But here’s a completely legitimate way to get Vegas 6 for just $79.00 from B&H Photo. Then, you can either stay at Vegas 6 and you’ll have saved over $500.00 [...]

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