CaptionMax has been providing closed captioning services for twenty one years. They currently have 75 caption specialists and provide a variety of captioning, translation, video description, and transcription services. We caught up with David Hansfield, the Business Development Manager at CaptionMax, to chat about what is new and noteworthy in captioning.

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Crews Control was asked, “What are corporate video trends in America right now?” So, we did what any large video production staffing company would do. We polled DPs, Camera Ops and Producers all over the country that we assign to corporate video shoots. We asked what styles, deliverables, types of communications and messaging are trending in enterprise video. Buzz phrases like “shallow DOF”, “film look”, “user generated content”, “increased communication”, and “video for phones and tablets” floated off many tongues. Some of their answers surprised us and others were par for the course.

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Video has become the most effective means of communication whether you work at a small business or a large corporation. Many companies are asking their video production departments of all sizes for more content, both to use internally and externally. But your cost-conscious company wants it done with the same amount of personnel already on hand. If your life were a Hollywood movie, you could give a rousing, impassioned speech resulting in funding to double your team size. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work that way, so you’ll need to make sure you consider ways of increasing productivity that don’t require additional personnel. Here are 5 ways to increase your video production without increasing the head count of your department.

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Corporations, the government, and universities tend to own cameras and shoot a lot of content for themselves and their clients, citizens, and students. They need small files that integrate with their NLE and asset management software. Due to budgetary constraints they are often locked into workflows for a decade. Agencies and PR firms work on a per project basis. Depending on the client and of course their budget, they are able to choose cameras based on the storyboard. Agencies are flexible with workflow and choose post houses that can ingest pretty much anything. Then you have the broadcasters, this group is so visible that manufactures tailor cameras to their workflow then revise it later for everyone else. Production companies and independent camera operators live and die by their gear, with camera selections as large as their wallets and patience will allow.

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Directors of Photography are often asked to work in challenging locations or in tight spaces, but sometimes the job requires shooting in hostile environments. Some DPs make their career out of shooting in dangerous places and war zones. Here are 10 tips on how to work in a hostile environment.

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Crews Control issued a poll and found that 60% of Corporate Video Producers feel that the biggest challenge in production is creating realistic budgets. In order to generate an accurate budget, you must consider overlooked aspects that affect both cost and quality. Below are some tips for anticipating hidden expenses when creating a budget.

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