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5 Tips for Hiring the Best Freelancers
Production Craft & Techniques

5 Tips for Hiring the Best Freelancers

My husband/partner and I have operated our San Diego video production company together since 1982. So after hundreds of video shoots throughout three-plus decades, we have learned what to look for wh…
Friday, 04 August 2017 · 3 min read
How to Make Educational Videos People Actually Want to Watch
Production Craft & Techniques

How to Make Educational Videos People Actually Want to Watch

Have you ever had to suffer through a dry, stale educational video that bored you to tears or made you want to pull out your hair? Such videos are common elements of many corporations’ onboarding and…
Tuesday, 01 August 2017 · 4 min read
How to Get Your First Job in CG – with Saddington Baynes
Production Craft & Techniques

How to Get Your First Job in CG – with Saddington Baynes

When applying for a job, people often say it’s not what you know, it’s who you know. Well, we call BS on that.In our industry, talent and creativity are obviously paramount. But that’s a little vague…
Friday, 28 July 2017 · 6 min read
Ready to Start Your Freelancing Career? Here are 5 Keys to Success
Production Craft & Techniques

Ready to Start Your Freelancing Career? Here are 5 Keys to Success

Getting your foot in the door and into a production company can be frustrating when you’re just starting out in your career. Even if you’ve got a tremendous amount of talent, many production companie…
Thursday, 27 July 2017 · 4 min read
How Much Does a 30 Second Video Cost?
Production Craft & Techniques

How Much Does a 30 Second Video Cost?

I can not tell you how many times I’m asked that question either casually with friends or more often from prospective clients and my answer is usually a very tongue and check, “Well, you can probably…
Wednesday, 26 July 2017 · 4 min read
5 Reasons to Recommend a Soft Box with LED Lighting
Production Craft & Techniques

5 Reasons to Recommend a Soft Box with LED Lighting

LEDs are a highly efficient light source, and putting aside any color spectrum issues, (that have generally been improving) they still have limitations for lighting people. The naked illumination com…
Friday, 21 July 2017 · 2 min read
How to Maintain Control of Your IP-Delivered TV Services
Production Craft & Techniques

How to Maintain Control of Your IP-Delivered TV Services

The internet has revolutionized every facet of the modern business world. The latest industry to drastically shift its structure and undergo major enhancements is the television delivery. Where consu…
Wednesday, 19 July 2017 · 3 min read
RED Rolls On with Hydrogen One (Part 2)
Gear & Production Technology

RED Rolls On with Hydrogen One (Part 2)

One of the best things about being the Technology Editor here at ProductionHUB is having the ability to connect with a lot of really smart people (the best and brightest) from throughout our industry…
Wednesday, 19 July 2017 · 7 min read
Enabling the Cloud as Traditional Broadcast Workflows Evolve
Production Craft & Techniques

Enabling the Cloud as Traditional Broadcast Workflows Evolve

The Cloud itself is pretty simple, but for broadcasters, leveraging it can be complex. It isn’t that difficult technically, but Broadcast still straddles requirements that demand real time, high reso…
Thursday, 13 July 2017 · 4 min read
RED Announces Hydrogen One
Gear & Production Technology

RED Announces Hydrogen One

This past Thursday RED announced the Hydrogen One. The specifics were few and far between but according to the information out there so far, here is what we do know. According to RED, the Hydrogen On…
Tuesday, 11 July 2017 · 5 min read