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 From: WSB-TV
“Two WSB-TV Channel 2 employees escaped serious injury Wednesday when their news truck exploded after touching power lines.
Channel 2 Action News reporter Tom Jones had just finished a live report with photographer Leonard Raglin at the Fulton County jail. They were driving from the [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 7:31am EST by Kevin
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 Sony PDW-F350 XDCAM HD camcorder with Fujinon HS16×4.6BE RM lens.
Less than 30 hours.
Latest software upgrades, in perfect condition with tripod plate.
The FUJI lens may be the best lens they make, 16X with a 2X at 4.6 wide, very wide.
$29,000
 Cartoni FOCUS head [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 6:00pm EST by Kevin
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 From: KSFM
“Late Wednesday night a 5NEWS live truck went into the White River.
A 5NEWS crew was setting up for a live shot in South Fayetteville off Pump Station Road when the van rolled into the water. No one was hurt in the accident.”
Read [...]
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Posted: November 12, 2009, 8:47pm EST by Kevin
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 I’m pondering putting in an order for these b-roll.net embroidered fleeces. They’d be $25 plus $4 for domestic shipping – or $29.
6oz micro-fleece in black with the b-roll.net logo on your left.
If I get enough interest – I’ll place an order – and they’ll be ready [...]
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Posted: November 11, 2009, 10:59am EST by Kevin
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 From: Les Baker
As professional video equipment gets smaller and smaller, it seems like we’re carrying around a lot more of it. Tapes are out, cards and disks are in. BNCs and XLRs are working in conjunction with USBs and firewires. The laptop is competing with [...]
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Posted: November 10, 2009, 5:50am EST by Kevin
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Number of comments: 2  Mike Walter, a DC based reporter has covered all types of TV news stories, but the Pentagon on 9/11/01 changed the way he looked at it all.
His latest work, Breaking News, Breaking Down, is a film that looks into how covering tragedy doesn’t prevent us [...]
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Posted: November 05, 2009, 8:46pm EST by Kevin
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 I’ve got a couple of our latest b-roll.net PERFORMANCE T-SHIRTS that I want to give away. Why not do a contest on Twitter?
For a chance to win, simply follow b-roll.net on TWITTER and re-post the following “tweet.”
“I follow http://b-roll.net – THE source for TV, [...]
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Posted: November 03, 2009, 9:02pm EST by Kevin
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 Now that folks here in the States have switched back to Standard Time (away from Daylight Saving Time) is time to readjust your evening live shot lighting.
Amanda Emily has created a beautiful interface that she’s shared with us – the b-roll.net Golden Hour Calculator.
They [...]
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Posted: November 01, 2009, 12:54pm EST by Kevin
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 There has been a good debate on the b-roll.net FORUM about whether or not there should be a “One Man Band” category in the b-roll.net AWARDS.
The proposed changes to the contest are as follows:
1) Change “Feature (Soft)” to “Feature” allowing hard and soft stories [...]
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Posted: October 30, 2009, 10:40am EDT by Kevin
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 From: NY Times
“The creators of Politico plan to do for local news in Washington and its suburbs what they already have done for national politics, announcing on Wednesday that they will build a large, Web-based local news organization from scratch, at a time when traditional [...]
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Posted: October 29, 2009, 3:40pm EDT by Kevin
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 Between now and the end of the year, Panasonic is offering to take your old camera as trade-in towards a VariCam 2700 2/3″ P2HD Camera.
If you turn in the right camera you can get the 2700 for $19,950 (about 1/2 the list price of $39,950.00.
According [...]
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Posted: October 28, 2009, 10:15am EDT by Kevin
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 From: Al Tompkins – Poynter.org
“Last week, KUSA-TV in Denver got a call from a man who sounded frantic about his “missing” 6-year-old son who he said had climbed inside a helium-filled balloon. People around the country would soon turn to the news station for [...]
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Posted: October 23, 2009, 8:04pm EDT by Kevin
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 I understand that this is a video site. But good photography is good photography. I’m selling my Canon 20D Body.
It’s a great camera – I’m only selling because I have a newer version. Check it out on eBay… or [ow.ly] [...]
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Posted: October 23, 2009, 7:50pm EDT by Kevin
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 The big news finally broke yesterday (10/20) but the rumors were flying in advance. Now you can watch the video yourself and see all the glory of the new cameras.
The PMW-350 and the PMW-EX1R expand the Sony’ XDCAM EX family.
“The products include Sony’s first [...]
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Posted: October 21, 2009, 10:51am EDT by Kevin
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Number of comments: 5  UPDATE: Site has been pulled down. See full specs here.
The detectives at the b-roll.net FORUM have uncovered a link to an equipment store that already has the newest EX camera listed, the PMW-EX1R. According to the site, the EX1R will have the same [...]
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Posted: October 19, 2009, 8:23am EDT by Kevin
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Number of comments: 2  KATU photographer Bob Bullock was attacked by this man, Peter Fournier, while shooting weather video outside a school in Southeast Portland, Oregon. The entire incident was caught on tape. Bullock, the photographer was left with bruised ribs and a thousand dollars in damages to his station [...]
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Posted: October 15, 2009, 10:25am EDT by Kevin
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 From: DSLR News Shooter
We told you about photojournalist Danfung Dennis shooting the Frontline documentary Obama?s War and his own online doc Battle for Hearts and Minds with the Canon 5DmkII.
Now on his new blog, DSLR News Shooter, Dennis talks [...]
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Posted: October 14, 2009, 12:56pm EDT by Kevin
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From: KLAS-TV
“KLAS TV Channel 8 management is preparing a filing with the Federal Communication Commission categorically denying a complaint that this station promised news coverage in exchange for advertising dollars.”
From: Las Vegas Review Journal
“A day after it was reported that Channel 3 filed a complaint charging that Channel 8, [...]
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Posted: October 12, 2009, 5:47pm EDT by Kevin
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 From: Las Vegas Review Journal
It seems that Las Vegas’ Channel 3 doesn’t like to see the competition sell news stories and not disclose it.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal has learned that KVBC-TV, Channel 3 filed a complaint Wednesday to the Federal Communications Commission against KVVU-TV, Channel [...]
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Posted: October 08, 2009, 9:54pm EDT by Kevin
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Vortex Media has the following surplus equipment for sale. We take credit cards and can ship via UPS on your account or ours. All equipment is in excellent condition and you can have 24 hours after you receive it to change your mind if the equipment does not meet your [...]
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Posted: October 08, 2009, 1:45pm EDT by Kevin
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 So the Kate Beckinsale shoot for Esquire demonstrates how we can shoot video and pull still from the motion.
Now photographer Alexx Henry and his team are looking at the hypothetical concept of video magazines presented on flexible OLED “paper.”
In this video, Alexx Henry takes [...]
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Posted: October 06, 2009, 1:40pm EDT by Kevin
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Number of comments: 1 We’re coming up on the 3rd Annual b-roll.net AWARDS, and we couldn’t be more excited. The caliber of work in the competition in the past 2 years has been amazing. We can’t wait to see what gets entered in the contest this year.
Since this is YOUR contest, we need [...]
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Posted: October 04, 2009, 8:12pm EDT by Kevin
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Number of comments: 2  PBS’s Frontline, one of the most beautifully shot and edited documentary programs on television, produced segments for it latest show Obama’s War with the Canon 5DmkII. One of the DP’s, Danfung Dennis, shot the opening sequence with a custom rig that allowed it to [...]
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Posted: October 03, 2009, 10:08am EDT by Kevin
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Number of comments: 4
 From: Gizmodo
All this talk of 5D and 7D, I felt you could use a little 5K. Here’s Esquire’s photo shoot of Kate Beckinsale for their Sexiest Woman Alive issue. Shot in motion with a 5K Red Epic, the images for [...]
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Posted: October 02, 2009, 4:06pm EDT by Kevin
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 I had to share this photo sent in from Tim Keating of Keating Productions. According to Tim, this is a live feed of an interview with Marion Barry being sent to Washington, DC’s dc.gov website.
Got to hand it to the industriousness of this reporter.
Thanks [...]
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Posted: October 02, 2009, 1:37pm EDT by Kevin
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 Long-time cameraman/scribe, Stewart “Lenslinger” Pittman, took his brilliant proses to a vocal level yesterday. He was able to find his way onto a regional talk radio show on WZTK in North Carolina. Host, Allan Handelman guided the discussion on local TV news, OMBs, social [...]
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Posted: October 01, 2009, 7:55am EDT by Kevin
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Number of comments: 1  From: Philip Bloom
According to Alex Buono, DP for SNL, the new show open for Saturday Night Live was shot on the Canon 5d and 7d. In addition, some of the commercials and shorts normally shot on film were accomplished with the dSLRs. Normally [...]
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 Back in the late 90’s, I was fortunate enough to travel overseas to places like Bosnia, Kosovo, and the Persian Gulf. On a number of these brief trips we would run into crews from CNN and other networks.
We’d sit in a hotel bar – after [...]
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Number of comments: 5  We are all storytellers after all.
Michael Levine, a South Florida based shooter and active member of the b-roll.net family, shares advice and great wisdom with “b-rollers” around the world as A Step Above Productions.
It seems that now the advice he’s sharing is how to [...]
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 From: RTNDA Communicator
RTNDA Chairman, Stacey Woelfel; Poynter Online Guru, Al Tompkins; and talented photographer, Lynn French, among others, posed questions to a focus group of TV news viewers and discovered a few things they like and hate about us.
Some of their reactions are completely [...]
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 After I bragged about a “golden hour” calculator I found on the internet, Amanda Emily, photog historian and lifesaving server-tech, told me she had already built one. She kindly shared it with the b-roll community, and we’re now proud to unveil the [...]
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 From: Al Tompkins, Poynter Online
“CNN unnerved the nation Friday morning with live reports of Coast Guard teams firing on a suspect vessel on the Potomac River that would not stop when ordered. We know now it was just radio chatter, part of a [...]
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Number of comments: 3  I’m starting to think that the folks at TV Azteca read b-roll.net. Or at least Nino’s thread about watermarking your video.
The live hijacking footage coming out of Mexico today on all the networks was plastered with the TV Azteca logo. I’ve seen [...]
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The MacGyver of digital video cameras, Philip Bloom can shoot beautiful images on just about anything. And his string of video product reviews, world travels and active blog somehow leave him time to try every new camera that is released.
This weekend, Bloom took a break from his [...]
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 Those tight spiral shots always blew my mind. Even as a kid, when I didn’t completely understand the game of football, those slow-motion film clips told me everything I needed to know. They made me want to learn about the game, but more importantly, they made [...]
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Number of comments: 2  Ok… this has probably been around for a while, but I’ve never seen it before. The folks at VFGadgets, a Canadian outfit that always has cool toys, sent me a press release stating they are now offering the “EyeDirect 16×9” from Eyeliner Texas. [...]
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 From: WPVI
“OYLESTOWN, Pa. – August 27, 2009 (WPVI) — The father of the woman at the center of an infamous abduction hoax case attacked a news photographer Thursday afternoon shortly after her sentencing.
William Siner came toward a group of photographers and reporters shortly after [...]
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Posted: August 28, 2009, 7:33am EDT by Kevin
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Number of comments: 1 
From: Al Tompkins Poynter Online
“Reporter Jeremy Jojola filed a live video story last week for KOB-TV in Albuquerque, N.M., using an iPhone and the Web site Qik.com. Jojola is one of many journalists who have begun experimenting with new ways of recording live [...]
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Posted: August 27, 2009, 12:36pm EDT by Kevin
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I just stumbled upon this from Scientific American Contributing Editor, Christie Nicholson’s Twitter feed. yellowBird, a company from The Netherlands, has created a system for 360° VR moving video. If a picture is worth a thousand words, I’ll let this clip do the talking.
 [...]
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Posted: August 24, 2009, 5:55pm EDT by Kevin
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Number of comments: 2  From: Lifehacker
Wanna shoot that stand-up with just the perfect natural light? Try the Golden Hour Calculator. Upon hitting the homepage, the website tries to figure out where you are and then tell you what is the best time of day to get that beautiful [...]
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Posted: August 21, 2009, 10:01am EDT by Kevin
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Number of comments: 1 Congratulations to our two winners in the latest b-roll.net CONTEST. This entertaining contest had a simple concept – write and produce a :30-1:00 commercial for b-roll.net. The videos were posted, and the you voted.
AND THE WINNER IS…
Richard Adkins of WRAL in Raleigh, NC
This is [...]
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Posted: August 15, 2009, 11:13am EDT by Kevin
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 From: NPR.org
NPR Media Corespondent, David Folkenflik, delves into the struggle all TV news organizations are dealing with – how to stay afloat.
Radio and television networks and newspapers are struggling to survive the transformation to the digital age. As established media business models become outmoded [...]
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Posted: August 10, 2009, 1:13pm EDT by Kevin
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From: CTV Montreal
CTV cameraman Hugh Haugland was taking shots of the aftermath of Tuesday’s tornado when the helicopter crashed near Route 117.
Hugh was 44 years old, the father of two beautiful girls and the son of former CTV anchorman Bill Haugland.
The pilot, Roger Belanger, [...]
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Posted: August 05, 2009, 1:16pm EDT by Kevin
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 I’ve got good news and bad news.
The bad news is we didn’t get a lot of entries in the b-roll.net COMMERCIAL contest. I was really excited about this contest and hoping to get tons of creative experiments, but it turns out we only received TWO.
The good [...]
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Posted: August 01, 2009, 10:40pm EDT by Kevin
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 Amanda Emily (photog, historian and technical genius) posted a brilliant explanation of P2 cards on her site, AmandaEmily.com.
With the new E-Series P2 cards coming out, the question arose about why a P2 card “goes bad.”
Amanda takes a stab at it, and explains [...]
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Posted: July 27, 2009, 7:57am EDT by Kevin
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Number of comments: 1  From: NPPA
With the Virtual Video Workshop coming up this Saturday, I wanted to re-run this story for July…
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The Virtual Video Workshop is coming to a computer near you.
At last, a video workshop you can attend in your pajamas. This exciting new approach to providing a workshop [...]
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Posted: July 26, 2009, 10:43pm EDT by Kevin
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 Your job has already forced you to carry a phone on your hip at all times, so why not make it more useful.
In the b-roll.net FORUM, Shootblue has posted a recommendation for the WunderRadio app available for both the Apple iPhone and Windows Mobile platforms (Blackberry [...]
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Posted: July 16, 2009, 5:26pm EDT by Kevin
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 From: WUSA9.com
After weeks of criticism from photogs on this site and others, the Real World DC photographer who harassed WUSA photographer Lindsey Mastis has issued her an apology.
Dear Lindsey Mastis,
I would like to extend an apology for my conduct on July 2. My actions on [...]
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Posted: July 16, 2009, 2:07pm EDT by Kevin
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Your job has already forced you to carry a phone on your hip at all times, so why not make it more useful.
In the b-roll.net FORUM, Shootblue has posted a recommendation for the WunderRadio app available for both the Apple iPhone and Windows Mobile platforms (Blackberry [...]
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Posted: July 16, 2009, 9:29am EDT by Kevin
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 From: Live Apartment Fire via Television Broadcast
WGCL-TV, the Meredith-owned CBS station in Atlanta, pulled out of a local news-sharing triad in the market earlier this month. The station had formed an alliance just a few weeks earlier with WAGA-TV, the Fox O&O, and WXIA-TV, [...]
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Posted: July 13, 2009, 3:27pm EDT by Kevin
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Number of comments: 2  We have some prizes to give away, and we want to give them to YOU.
The folks at ENGcage want to give you a FREE in-truck camera cage. ($850 value)
But wait! There’s MORE!
 The folks at ProSource want to give you a [...]
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Posted: July 09, 2009, 9:58pm EDT by Kevin
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 Boston based public radio show, Here and Now has done a story about the trend to pool video in local markets. They talked with Ron Stover of KARE-TV in Minneapolis and Deborah Potter of News Lab.
You can listen to the story, here. [...]
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Posted: July 09, 2009, 8:13am EDT by Kevin
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 A fire at Fisher Plaza in Seattle, WA, home of KOMO-TV and other technical and broadcasting organizations, took the station off the air temporarily.
According to a b-roll.net FORUM post from “SeattleShooter” a photog at KOMO, at 3am worked to make a news set from [...]
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Posted: July 03, 2009, 4:18pm EDT by Kevin
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It was only a matter of time.
Ironically, the video, directed by Steve Ellington, is called Technologic Overkill.
Wanna go full circle? Click here to watch it on your iPhone.
From: Mashable [...]
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Posted: July 02, 2009, 2:42pm EDT by Kevin
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 Ok.. the first example was kind of a joke. But this time it’s real.
The folks at Zacuto have released a ZGrip for the iPhone 3Gs. Initially this is priced at $295, but this is the Pro model. A consumer grade version is in the [...]
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Posted: July 01, 2009, 2:08pm EDT by Kevin
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Number of comments: 4 There has been a lot of talk on the b-roll.net FORUM about video on an iPhone. Jim Sitton shared this clip from WFOR-TV in Miami. It’s about the hype of the new iPhone 3Gs – shot completely with an iPhone.
The folks [...]
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Posted: June 24, 2009, 6:22pm EDT by Kevin
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 Congratulations to Denver’s Kevin Scofield of KDVR-TV and KWGN-TV for winning the 2009 Sprague Award from the NPPA. It was presented earlier this month at the NPPA Convention in Las Vegas, NV.
According to the NPPA website, “the Sprague Award is NPPA’s highest honor and it [...]
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Posted: June 19, 2009, 7:14am EDT by Kevin
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 After almost 48 hours down, b-roll.net appears to live again.
This is enough to make you want to go back on vacation.
Even though it doesn’t take much for me to want to go back to Grand Cayman – the amazing island I just spent my honeymoon on [...]
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Posted: June 10, 2009, 9:20am EDT by Kevin
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 b-roller, Dennis Hart of Semaphore Video recently wrote me with an interesting idea.
Kevin,
As I was riding the train to Chicago to look at a dizzying array of new cameras I recalled you were looking for some new ideas for b-roll. On my last 10 HD [...]
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Posted: May 22, 2009, 5:51pm EDT by Kevin
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 Over the weekend, we had a bout with a hacker on the b-roll.net FORUM. There does not seem to be a malware aspect – only a case of tweaking with the user database. Unfortunately this has meant a few users have not been able to [...]
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Posted: May 12, 2009, 11:19pm EDT by Kevin
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Number of comments: 4 Contributed by John Woods
Well, it happened.
No, not a car wreck. And no, I didn’t get a “dewie” after a long day of covering car wrecks.
I was assaulted.
And by a girl, none the less! Well, I guess “technically” there is no gender, because I was assaulted by Mother Nature (insert collective groan)…
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Posted: May 03, 2009, 1:05pm EDT by Kevin
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Number of comments: 1 The folks from Createasphere (AKA HD Expo) are putting together the 2.0 version of the P2 Camp to train you for the latest workflow ideas for the Panasonic tapeless medium.
Also, all b-roll.net members receive 20% off classes through Creatasphere. COLORCAMP, VARICAMP and P2CAMP.
Follow this link for more [...]
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Posted: May 02, 2009, 1:41pm EDT by Kevin
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Number of comments: 1  Mint Condition Cavision 4X4 Mattebox MB 410HLens Fit and Mount Clamp-on or Rods Support 100mm Back-mount openingType Hard ShadeFilter Type 4×4Total Filter Stages 2Rotating Stages 1Degree of Rotation 270 degreesMaterials Metal ConstructionDimensions (WxHxD)7.28 x 7 x 3.74″ 18.5 x 18 x 9.5cmWeight 1.13 lb 515 gram
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Posted: April 30, 2009, 8:55pm EDT by Kevin
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 For me, the new products at the NAB show are nothing compared to the excitement of the annual b-roll.net BASH.
Back in 2000, I took my first trip to Vegas to see the biggest broadcast trade show. Before there were blogs, facebook and twitter, I posted info [...]
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Posted: April 26, 2009, 8:11pm EDT by Kevin
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Number of comments: 1  I always have grand plans when I hit the floor of NAB. Meet with vendors. Learn about new products. Take pictures. Shoot video. Edit stories and get them on b-roll.net as quickly as possible.
Looks easy on paper, but even with the great assistance that I’ve had over [...]
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Posted: April 23, 2009, 5:53pm EDT by Kevin
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Posted: April 20, 2009, 7:19pm EDT by Kevin
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Number of comments: 2  Ok… not the most exciting thing, but the first “surprise.”
So what does it mean for a company to change there logo? Is a NEW Avid in the works? We’ll see… [...]
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Posted: April 20, 2009, 3:05pm EDT by Kevin
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Number of comments: 1  It’s a beautiful morning. The weather is perfect. Sun is out. And due to my East Coast clock being 3 hours off, I can’t sleep.
Might as well explore the quiet streets of Vegas (at least they’re sort of quiet this time of [...]
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Posted: April 19, 2009, 12:35pm EDT by Kevin
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 From: Gardian.co.uk
“An Iranian-American journalist, Roxana Saberi, was sentenced to eight years in prison yesterday by the Iranian authorities after being found guilty of spying for the United States.
The US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, has demanded that the former Miss North Dakota, who [...]
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Posted: April 18, 2009, 7:45pm EDT by Kevin
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Number of comments: 1  It’s always good to hear about street-wise photographers developing tools to help make our job easier. Who better come up with the innovations, than the folks who use it.
That’s why I was impressed with the information I received from Gregg Hamilton, a shooter based in Houston, [...]
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Posted: April 14, 2009, 6:35pm EDT by Kevin
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 Only a week away!
One of my favorite events of the year - the b-roll.net BASH is becoming an NAB must-attend party. Check out the stories from 2008.
Last year’s party was amazing with over 200 people attending, and we’re doing it again.
Monday, April 20 [...]
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Posted: April 12, 2009, 8:57pm EDT by Kevin
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The folks at Zacuto must be like Q’s lab from 007. They come up with cool innovative products and put their own style and flair on it.
They latest “spy” equipment is the DSLR Gunstock. Basically it allows you to take a motion picture capable still-camera (like the Canon EOS [...]
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Posted: April 10, 2009, 7:45am EDT by Kevin
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From: NPPA.org
WASHINGTON, DC (April 8, 2009) ? Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi, who has been detained in Iran’s Evin prison for three months and who was thought to be facing imminent release, has instead now been charged with spying.
Tehran’s deputy prosecutor of the Iranian Revolutionary Court [...]
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Posted: April 08, 2009, 9:23pm EDT by Kevin
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 It was like going back to school and working on a term paper, but I recently finished an article that appears in the most recent issue of Broadcast Engineering. The March 2009 issue of the industry magazine just started shipping, and you can find [...]
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Posted: April 08, 2009, 7:55am EDT by Kevin
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There isn’t anyone in his audience that thinks John Gross lacks creativity, energy or passion. His work and his talks grab your attention and keep it. The Minneapolis based one-man-band works at KSTP-TV, and at a recent Northern Short Course presentation, he had the crowd laughing, [...]
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Posted: April 07, 2009, 12:24pm EDT by Kevin
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Deborah Potter of NewsLab.org had her trusty little camera at last month’s Northern Short Course in McLean, VA, and caught up with NPPA and b-roll.net AWARD winner Darren Durlach.
Here are a few of the video interviews:
Thanks to VideoJournalist.ca for the heads up. [...]
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Posted: April 02, 2009, 7:25pm EDT by Kevin
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Number of comments: 1 Thanks to everyone who stopped by the b-roll.net CHAT last night - moderated by Shawn Montano. A lot of great editing tips and questions were tossed around and I hope everyone came out with a little more knowledge then when they started.
Thanks Shawn for working to keep us on [...]
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Posted: March 31, 2009, 9:30pm EDT by Kevin
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It’s time to restart the b-roll.net CHAT, so join us Monday, March 30, 2009 11:30pm ET for our first of our chat series.
Shawn Montano, award-winning Denver-based editor, will help moderate a discussion of video editing. Shawn’s blog and twitter feed Edit_Foundry has tons of tutorials and [...]
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Posted: March 27, 2009, 10:45am EDT by Kevin
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Number of comments: 3 From: Kim Fatica on Twitter ([twitter.com])
 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 [...]
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Posted: March 27, 2009, 10:00am EDT by Kevin
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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 …
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Posted: March 25, 2009, 8:41am EDT by Kevin
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Number of comments: 1  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 [...]
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Posted: March 24, 2009, 10:07am EDT by Kevin
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Number of comments: 1  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 [...]
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Posted: March 23, 2009, 3:44pm EDT by Kevin
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Number of comments: 6  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 [...]
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Posted: March 22, 2009, 11:12pm EDT by Kevin
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 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 [...]
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Posted: March 19, 2009, 5:26pm EDT by Kevin
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Number of comments: 1
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. [...]
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Posted: March 19, 2009, 2:39pm EDT by Kevin
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Number of comments: 1 One of my favorite events of the year - the b-roll.net BASH is becoming an NAB must-attend party. Check out the stories from 2008.
Last year’s party was amazing with over 200 people attending, and we’re doing it again.
Monday, April 20 from 6-8pm at [...]
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Posted: March 16, 2009, 2:59pm EDT by Kevin
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Number of comments: 1  2009 Northern Short Course TV Program
Full program description and schedule at:
The Workshops:
New Skills, New Tools for the Future
Change is inevitable. Newsrooms are evolving.
Are you keeping pace or falling behind?
Deborah Potter
NewsLab.org
Expanding Reporting Skills, Working and Learning Together
Tom Foreman
CNN Correspondent, [...]
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Posted: March 11, 2009, 12:43pm EDT by Kevin
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If you want a tight depth of field on a Sony EX3, Philip Bloom ([philipbloom.co.uk]), a UK based cameraman, may have found the perfect thing. The Letus EX3 Relay is a DOF adapter that allows you to use film lenses on a video camera. The added control and ability [...]
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Posted: March 10, 2009, 3:08pm EDT by Kevin
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Posted: March 08, 2009, 3:34pm EDT by b-roll
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Number of comments: 1  I owe everyone an apology for my sloth, but mainly I owe an apology to the 2 winners of the b-roll.net AWARDS Voter Giveaway. As part of the b-roll.net AWARDS, the top voters are given prizes as well - and it has taken until [...]
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Posted: March 08, 2009, 12:03pm EDT by Kevin
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Number of comments: 1  From: Form Before Function by Steve Crawford
“By the time you get this, I?ll be gone.
We both knew it was coming. Honestly, it?d been heading this way for a while. We were just going through the motions, anyway. Don?t get me wrong, there were some [...]
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Posted: March 05, 2009, 10:23am EST by Kevin
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Number of comments: 1  Shawn Montano, a Denver based video editor, and 2 time NPPA Editor of the Year, is sharing his vast knowledge on his blog.
 Edit Foundry is “an establishment for producing a good foundation of editing.”
So far it is a 13 step program [...]
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Posted: March 03, 2009, 3:18pm EST by Kevin
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 According to Rasmus Auctioneers, “WPLG Channel 10 Miami s relocating to its new state of the art facilities and will make a complete liquidation of its excess TV/Video studio, editing, production and broadcast assets, office and business equipment.”
Thursday, May 14th, 2009 is your day to [...]
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Posted: March 03, 2009, 3:01pm EST by Kevin
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Number of comments: 1  Congratulations again to all of the b-roll.net AWARD winners. Thanks to Jim Sitton of WPTV for sending photos of his award. Leave it to creative photographers to find new and different ways to shoot an image of them with their trophies.
I kind of feel guilty [...]
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Posted: March 02, 2009, 1:39pm EST by Kevin
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Number of comments: 1  Congratulations to KMSP photographer, Spencer Driskill!
He was randomly selected from the over 200 entries to win an Xtender lighting accessory system.
Shawn Dennison, the inventor of Xtender, graciously donated the prize - and will be shipping it out to Driskill in time to shoot some beautiful [...]
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Posted: March 01, 2009, 10:38am EST by Kevin
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 Talk about a clean sweep.
WBFF’s Darren Durlach is soon going to need a larger bookshelf. After topping the b-roll.net AWARDS for two years straight, he’s just taken top honors in the National Press Photographers Association’s Photographer of the Year competition.
Last year’s Large Market, BEST of [...]
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Posted: February 28, 2009, 10:42am EST by Kevin
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From: TVNEWSDAY
Tribune Co. told the nine broadcasting members of its Washington bureau today that their positions are being eliminated, effective in March. The staffers were told of the decision today.
Tribune spokesman Gary Weitman said that Tribune has news sharing agreements with CNN that it will use to service its [...]
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Posted: February 27, 2009, 4:26pm EST by Kevin
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Number of comments: 1 Philip Bloom ([philipbloom.co.uk]), a UK based cameraman, has put together an amazing video review of the NEW Panasonic HPX-301e (basically the European version of the HPX-300 being discussed on the b-roll.net FORUM).
Take a look at the great images and honest review of the newest camera from Panasonic.
Review of [...]
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Posted: February 27, 2009, 2:15pm EST by Kevin
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 Anton/Bauer is introducing its DionicŪ HC high current camera battery at NAB 2009.
The Dionic HC is capable of up to 10 amps. With 85 watt-hr capacity, a built-in LCD real-time fuel gauge tracks up to nine hours of run time. Its seven segment numerical icon [...]
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Posted: February 27, 2009, 12:37pm EST by Kevin
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Stephen Press sent a video acceptance speech for his award as the first International BEST of b-roll.net winner. I think this speech tops anything I saw from the actors during the Oscars.
 Nathan Thompson of WTVF in Nashville, TN - 2nd Place in Standup/Live Shot.
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Posted: February 27, 2009, 7:32am EST by Kevin
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