Video and Movie topics

Is there a signal quality loss using multiple S-Video cables going from a DirectTV box to an old Panasonic PV-HS2000 (DVR) then to a junction/box to handle a DVD/VCR and back to the TV?  TV is a Sony WEGA ...

Hi everyone, I have an dead Sony ccd-v101 that I would like to have repaired, but I am not sure who I should take it to. I live in Northern California, about 1 hour NE of Sacramento. Any recommendations? ...

Don't know if you guys know this already but here's an article on how to make a camera stabilizer for about $15. [link] Hope it helps those trying to catch a budget break. ...

Hey! Seems I have access to a Sony UVW-100 Betacam SP camera. I have NO experience with this camera and I'm starting to do the Google searches on it now but figured some of you folks might have used it. ...

Costco  is selling the Samsung 17" LCD TV model LNR-1742 for $499.  I can not find any online reference to this model, even on the Samsung site.  What looks like an almost identical model is the Samsung 710MP.  Visually it looks the same, it takes the ...

Found a couple of links. Turns out the devices I'd been looking at are 35mm lens adaptor for mini/DV cams. (this discussion started in another thread - we got on the topic of horses and vaseline and it just went downhill from there. ;) ...

Hey folks! Came across a site about a week ago where someone had built a bellow of sorts for a DVX-100 camera. I don't think this was a commercially made device. The idea I THINK was to narrow the depth of field. Some of the test movies ...

Due to the overwhelming response from the first version (i.e. NONE AT ALL) I added different timecodes to this version. It now supports 24, 25, 29.97, and 30 fps. Again, let me know what you think (or, more to the point, if it's worth it). ...

As I am playing with getting my camera to accept commands from my computer, I would really  apreciate some information on this protocol, should anyone out there be in possesion. I read somewhere that an official paper describing the protocol should ...

I've done some online searching and in my Vegas Video 4 manual but I'm not getting any results.  I know it must be because I'm not searching for the right thing.  It's something you see a on TV or in movies ...

Hi all I am using Premiere 6.5 and it doesn't recognize  .wmv  or ..rm files. Is there any way I can get Premeire to work with these file types and if not, is there a program out there that I can use to convert them to ...