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Contributor: Kandy

Kandy

Howard County-born & raised, Kandy Phillips feels right at home with the family at Crews Control. Apart from managing social marketing communications, she enjoys hosting cocktail parties, singing country western hits at ‘Gong Show’ karaoke, and the great outdoors. Don’t let the suit fool you, “Kandy with a K” is a country girl with urban swagger. While she has 15 years of experience in marketing, at one time she loved her work as a marine tig welder.

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White Paper: Deliverable Data Management and Hard Drive Usage in Video Production

Examining the Loss of Magnetic Media From Repeated Hard Drive Usage in Video Production

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The VSEO in Video Productions
Posted by Kandy on Jul 08, 2011 & filed under Technical with 0 comments.

Creative Asset Management is a key component of the video performance strategy. Implementing a content management strategy before shooting will help you to optimize your content for video search engine optimization (VSEO) if you intend to publish your content to the web, or for internal use, will help you manage locating, tracking, and building your content library. Whether you’re producing a video to publish for the viral or internal use, on or offline, here are some tips for implementing...

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When Content is King, Video Rules
Posted by Kandy on Jun 17, 2011 & filed under Technical with 0 comments.

Video is on track to be the most widely used online application. It’s creating a new standard for corporate communicators in today’s marketplace. When your organization incorporates a video messaging strategy the goal is to achieve optimal engagement and branded influence, but the content of your messaging is what reveals that actual outcome.

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Creating Media Conscious Content
Posted by Kandy on Jun 10, 2011 & filed under Technical with 0 comments.

The way society pays attention to media has changed. Are you shooting content relevant to the change? Going, going and soon to be gone are the days of static non-interactive content. Even in today's traditional television programming, messaging consists of commercials plugged with web inducement to activate engagement in audiences.

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Video Communications: a Trend or a Tradition?
Posted by Kandy on Jun 01, 2011 & filed under Technical with 0 comments.

The evolving landscape of new media has without question fundamentally reshaped corporate communications. Traditional measures for producing video content have new practices to comply with from standardizing production metrics to digitizing archives with streamlined meta-database referencing. Many companies new to the world of video communications are flocking to capitalize on the paramount trend sweeping the web with hopes that producing a video will put their business front and center on the...

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2011 Digital Camera Comparison Chart
Posted by Kandy on May 06, 2011 & filed under Technical with 0 comments.

Are you in the market for a new imaging device? Are you focused on upgrading to a new model or manufacturer but are unsure of how compatible it will be with the digital production technologies you use? Are you concerned that the info you’ve found to compare cameras is unreliably biased? Well, you just hit 2011 Digital Camera Comparison Chart Chicago – Detroit has done all the work for you!

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Captivating Audiences with Breakthrough Social Video
Posted by Kandy on Apr 22, 2011 & filed under Technical with 0 comments.

The distinction between corporate web presentation and consumer-driven online content is narrowing. Corporations have gone as far as imitating the candid home-made video style hoping to recreate the viral success seen by funny pets and cute babies candidly caught on cam. Does this strategy work in corporate marketing communications-- or does it generate more buzz for faking a viral video?

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The Social Video Revolution is Now
Posted by Kandy on Apr 12, 2011 & filed under Technical with 0 comments.

Social Media is the new “publicity”. Friend it, like it, share it; its here to stay. What gets people to interact , share their experience, endorse your brand, and influence others to do the same? Good video. If people aren’t interacting with your content and sharing it with others, your business simply isn’t emerging with the times. Is your marcom [marketing communications] strategy in motion for the Social Video Revolution? Social Video Marketing is where content producers and...

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#NABSHOW Buzz Coverage for #NAB2011
Posted by Kandy on Apr 07, 2011 & filed under Industry Events with 0 comments.

Ah-- so much to see and do over the span of this year’s National Association of Broadcasters 6-day convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, from April 9-April 14. There’s a great lineup of conferences set to begin April 9th and exhibitions to follow starting April 11th. If by chance you hadn’t planned on attending there’s still time to make it. NAB is still offering FREE passes to the exhibits on their website. Crews Control will be on the scene shooting a showcase of the best in gear and...

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Socializing Video:  The Most Fun Your Brand’s Ever Had
Posted by Kandy on Mar 31, 2011 & filed under Technical with 0 comments.

Whether your organization is a lanyard wholesaler or the largest commercial insurer on the planet, your customer/client base as a whole reflects a fraction of your potential viewership audience for socialized video. When organizations align with their audience through interactive media, the results are optimal engagement and branded influence. No content delivery is more apt to deliver these results than mobile-formatted high quality video. Socializing brand messaging with video cultivates...

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Rolling The Dice At NAB with New Panasonic Pro Video Products
Posted by Kandy on Mar 30, 2011 & filed under Technical with 0 comments.
Rolling The Dice At NAB with New Panasonic Pro Video Products

Earlier this week, we briefed key trade media on new Panasonic professional video products that will make their formal debut at the National Association of Broadcasters show (April 11-14 in Las Vegas, NV). Highlights included a new 9-inch LCD production monitor with the best image quality in its class, new P2 workflow tools that deliver blazing fast data transfer speeds and deep price reductions across our line of high-capacity, high-speed P2 cards (see photo album of product shots below).

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Creating Chemistry on Set
Posted by Kandy on Mar 24, 2011 & filed under Technical with 0 comments.

Just a few simple reminders of how to spearhead a well-planned production for your clients and crew. You've got all the logistics for your shoot in order, you're on location with your crew and ready to rock. There are still a few details left off the call sheet worth keeping in the back of your mind.

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Is the Skype is the Limit?
Posted by Kandy on Mar 16, 2011 & filed under Technical with 0 comments.

Cosmo G. Spacely, CEO of Spacely Space Sprockets, was spot on with employing innovative technology for his business. Spacely was a forerunner in utilizing video technology in corporate communications. That was forge ahead for 1962 when the futuristic show, The Jetsons, first aired. The Jetsons was also the first to be produced and broadcast in color though technology hadn’t quite caught up to it being delivered widespread in color to viewers. Now almost 50 years later, technology is so...

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Continuing Ed for Creative Endurance
Posted by Kandy on Mar 08, 2011 & filed under Industry Events with 0 comments.

Emerging new media and technology are ever-evolving factors that influence how creative professionals produce for our industry. Newer tools, methods and software are being released by the time we've mastered the last greatest thing to come along. How do creative’s stay ahead of the changes and still consistently produce fresh and relative content? We wanted to know about professional development for creative’s so we took a poll to get an idea. It turns out; production professionals are...

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Avid Media Composer 5.5
Posted by Kandy on Feb 28, 2011 & filed under Technical with 0 comments.

Avid has recently announced version 5.5, and the news is all exciting and good. Avid continues to evolve and support a more open format. They are allowing even more third-party support, which something in the past was impossible. It seems Avid has done an about face and is really giving other NLE’s a run for the money. Even in our SuperNLE Bowl, Avid came out victorious. Check out some of the new features in Avid Media Composer 5.5

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iPhone Apps for the Producer in You
Posted by Kandy on Feb 24, 2011 & filed under Downloads with 0 comments.

We ran a poll asking 400 video industry professionals what kind of smart phones they own and to name the video production apps they use. The results: iPhone ranked #1 phone most used by producers. While many of you were using production apps there is also a huge response from people asking what apps are available and most popular. We’ve put together a list of apps that our pollers use and some apps we think are cool. You know the iPhone can do just about anything-- except maybe turn into...

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The Benefits of Outsourcing Talent for Video Production
Posted by Kandy on Feb 17, 2011 & filed under Technical with 0 comments.

When your company is faced with producing a video communications project, outsourcing creative talent is a sensible and efficient solution. Crews Control provides the expertise, strategy support and execution to seamlessly integrate your preproduction planning with the production team needed to deliver a professional video. Outsourcing crew talent allows you to focus on your operational objectives with

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