Entries by Shawn Lam, MPV

Video News – April 6, 2009

Monday morning – a great time to quickly look back at the last one and forward to the current one. Last week: I authored, duplicated, thermal printed, and assembled 300 figure skating DVDs for the Sunset Skating Club. Many of the DVDs were personalized with their name on the full colour DVD cover. See a […]

Shawn Lam to attend NAB 2009

The NAB Show – the National Association of Broadcaster’s annual digital media industry event for audio, video, film, and communications professionals, is the world’s largest electronic media show. The exhibits at the trade show will take place between April 20-23, 2009 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. I’m planning on attending this trade show of […]

Sunset Ice – Sony Z7U and Z5U CMOS 30P footage

Sunset Ice – 2009 Figure Skating from Shawn Lam on Vimeo. Video by the Vancouver Video Production Company of Shawn Lam Video of the Sunset Skating Club 2009 Ice Show – Sunset Around the World. Featuring guest pair skaters Nicole Orford & Malcolm Rohon O’Halloran. Video camera: Sony HVR-Z7U and Sony HVR-Z5U. This video demonstrates […]

Sony HVR-Z5U review – EventDV April 2009

Exactly a year after getting my Sony HVR-Z7U I purchased the new HVR-Z5U – now I have a matching pair. In general the Z5U is the same as a Z7U except the Z5 comes with a fixed G series 20x lens instead of the Z7’s interchangeable 1/3″ bayonet mount that comes with a 12x Zeiss […]

Matrox RT.X2 LE review in March EventDV magazine

Update – April 9, 2009: Vancouver Video Production Blog workflow featured on Matrox RTX2 User Forum. After six months of workflow testing I completed my Matrox RT.X2 LE review for EventDV Magazine in December. The article appears in the March 2009 edition. The RT.X2 is a hardware card that provides real-time previews and accelerated exports […]

Vote for the 2008 EventDV 25!

Update 1 – Polls are now closed. Update 2 – see the 2008 EventDV 25 here Honorees will be announced on March 17th during a special online presentation by editor-in-chief Stephen Nathans-Kelly on EventDV-TV. EventDV magazine announced that voting is now open for the 2008 EventDV 25, the magazine’s 4th annual all-star team of the […]

Best of 2008 – Shawn Lam’s Picks

For the 2nd year in a row I was asked to weigh-in with my picks for the EventDV Best of 2008: Editors’ and Columnists’ picks Last year I chose the integration of Flash Video into the Adobe Production Premium package as my top choice but gave honourable mentions to the Canon XHA1 and Adobe’s Production […]

Video Production Articles in EventDV Magazine

Even before meeting EventDV Magazine editor-in-chief Stephen Nathans-Kelly at the Video ’07 convention, I had been a big fan of the magazine – the self proclaimed “Authority for Event Videographers”. I had read every magazine since the launch and talked openly about one day wanting to write for the magazine. I attended the convention as […]

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Shawn Lam wins Creative Excellence Award

Only 7 months after winning an Artistic Achievement Award, Shawn Lam Video was recognized with a Creative Excellence Award from WEVA. The award is a Silver in the Theatrical Productions Category and featured video from the Essence of Dance year end dance recital. Due to the nature of the dance recital season and the annual […]