The once game changing Panasonic professional video team has shrunk back into the shadows over the past several years. Announcements surface at tradeshows for new codecs, media, and cameras to be available sometime in the future. We haven’t seen much in the way of product releases other than the microP2 cards in May and some AVC Ultra plug-ins in June. Despite the lack of new releases Panasonic is often the 2nd leading manufacturer used on Crews Control’s shoots. Panasonic cameras made up 27% of our 2nd quarter shoots in 2013 with work horses like the HDX-900, HVX-200, and others.

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We have seen a decent increase in Canon shoots in 2013 mostly due to adoption of the C-Series cameras. Canon made up 11% of shoots in the 2nd quarter of 2013. The widely popular C300 was the 2nd most used camera in August of 2013 and made up 10% of our shoots were a camera was used.

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Transcribing video is important to cut post time, sufficiently archive video, and for spoken words to appear in Google searches. Transcription with timecode notes is a great tool for video Producers to make paper edits and Editors love it to quickly locate sound bites. Organizations often have all footage transcribed and added to their archival library for future reference. One of the most important reasons to have online video transcribed is to make sure all that valuable spoken content can be noticed by crawlers and come up in relevant searches.

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So much of the information that we get about the video production industry is what is new, bigger, and better. In this article we focus on what has worked for our clients in the past, what is being requested now, and what we forecast for the near future. The video production world, like most other industries, is moving forward at lightning speed thanks to new technologies. But think back—it wasn’t always this way. Just a few short years ago, Crews Control’s clients were using tape, and standard definition at that! In 2010, however, our most requested format was NTSC, DVCAM; which of course is a standard definition format that shoots to tape.

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Are you planning a big conference and need to record the event? Is your boss saying things to you like “We need to capture the keynote speaker”, “We need to stream the event live” or, “We need to put the video on our website later”? Here is a guide to what questions you will need answered to contract the right types of companies.

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“What is the difference between containers, codecs and video formats and why do video professionals need to know this stuff?”

HELLO! I’m not an engineer or a programmer, why can’t we just leave this technical jargon for editors to figure out? As motion picture professionals in a digital age we can no longer ignore that the singular chemical process of film has been replaced by non-linear data. Figuring out this information can be daunting so let’s break it down into three sections. We’ll define containers, codecs, video formats and explore what they do and why this information is useful to video Producers, Camera Operators and Editors.

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