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How Teamwork Plays A Role In Production

First time doing a blog on Azure Production and very excited to explain what I currently do as my profession. I’m an intern here, coming from the Multimedia Design & Development program at Humber College. At school I have become experienced with industry-standard software such as Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects, Audition, and many more. During my first year at Humber College, part of the mandatory video course included an assignment where we had to interview a certain individual. This included that we must use proper lighting, camera use, and script writing. Three things that I found challenging while […]

Free Giveaway – Cineplex Odeon Movie Passes

Check out our free giveaway below! ** Not redeemable online at Cineplex.com. All Cineplex Entertainment LP theatres will accept this ticket towards the purchase of one general admission movie movie ticket. No substitutions. *Except in Quebec and Saskatchewan, valid until date stamped on back and no time extension on expired tickets. This ticket (a) is non-replaceable and non-refundable if lost, stolen, damaged or tampered with; (b) is not valid for non-feature film performances; (c) cannot be combined with any other promotion, coupon, voucher or special discount offer; (d) may be applied towards the purchase of admissions to film presentations in […]

How to Identify Your Video Format

There are many types of video formats that has come out in the past 50 years. I will explain the most popular formats during the past 50 years as we get many people bringing in tapes they can’t identify. The most common one is the VHS tape. It came out around 1980s and is slowly phasing out today. Despite of this, we still see VHS tapes being sold at stores. The magnetic tape is half inch in width. Image from http://en.wikipedia.org Betamax looks similar to BetaSP, but they are not. Betamax is an older type of tape, it came […]

Why Transferring Home Movies to HD is Not a Good Idea

Transferring from standard definition to high definition is not a good idea because your increasing the size of a video by blowing it up. This method is also known as up converting. A standard VHS, VHS-C, Hi8, Regular 8 video tape has a standard definition (SD) frame size of 720X480. High definition (HD) frame sizes are typically 1920X1080. There are some other HD sizes as well, for example: 1280X720 or the older format 1440X720 (which is rare now a-days). 1920X1080 can also be written as 1080p and 1280X720 can be written as 720p. These numbers represent how many pixels are […]