If any of you bought or are going to buy the Canon HV20 to use for Indie filmmaking you will definitely want to read an article over at DVXUser detailing how to manually control the exposure on this particular camcorder……….

Looking for another JVC GZ-HD7 camcorder review? Digital Trends has just the thing, giving the latest and greatest Everio camcorder a 7 out of 10 rating. Wonder why? Read on……….

Gotta give some link love to Mike Curtis over at HDForIndies. He has just announced “HD for Indies Premium,” a special, pay-to-access website that will provide new, deeper coverage on certain topics and provide lots of extras not found on the current blog. HDForIndies is a treasure trove for professional videographers and his comments and [...]………

In Videomaker’s latest issue they have a Canon HV20 review that is also available for reading online. Like pretty much every other Canon HV20 review they found it to be a remarkable camcorder that, “may just be the lifeboat you need to stay afloat in a sea of [HD camcorder] options.” They also make the [...]………

The ProfessionalsShort mockupromotional * video about a video production company. It is a magnificent case study in how to do do every little possible detail wrong. So just don’t do anything they did, and you’ve got hope.This is brilliant – they’ve scrupulously studied how to do everything wrong – I love it.In Hell, these guys’ parody characters are my clients and I have to fix their …

Oceans 13 – Featurette
Danny Ocean (George Clooney) and the gang would have only one reason to pull off their most ambitious and riskiest casino heist%u2014to defend one of their own. When ruthless casino owner Willy Bank (Al Pacino) double-crosses one of the original Ocean%u2019s eleven – Reuben Tishkoff (Elliott Gould) – Danny and the gang team up one…

In its %u201COver-the-Top Internet Video to the TV%u201D report, ABI Research said new set-top boxes delivering Internet movies to the TV from Apple, Netgear and others will grow to $1.5 billion in revenue by 2012……….

Hey all – it would appear that Final Cut Studio 2 is shipping – I got an email from a reader claiming they received a “has shipped” confirmation from Apple, and Apple’s online estimates have shifted (see pic). New versions are shipping first – as a business decision that makes SOME sense – serve new clients, with highest profit margin, first. In the meantime, it would appear that existing loyal………

A week after movie download upstart Vudu said it will make 5,000 major studio movies available this summer, more details have become available about the set-top box it says offers instantaneous playback……….

The U.S. video download market is on track to triple in size to $279 million this year, but that may be about as big as it gets………