Preface
There has never been a better time to be an independent video producer.
The once formidable barriers to video production have been falling one by one, and for the last 20 years, Videomaker Magazine has been chronicling that fall, and doing our best to hasten it.
The first barrier was the cost of the equipment. Million-dollar edit suites and camcorders costing over $100,000 used to rule the television landscape. Now you can get much better images and polished productions from a $1,000 consumer camcorder and a laptop.
The second barrier was training. Because of the expense of the equipment, access used to be limited to a technical elite, and an apprenticeship was the only way to learn the trade. However, as prices fell, the ...
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