How-to info & books for videographers

Learn video equipment, setup, operation, & production

Click to view one of these articles written by Dr. Peter Utz,
author of TODAY'S VIDEO.

Translated by machine a Español, en Français, in Deutsches, in Italiano, no Português

Nearly all articles were updated Feb. 2006 and many provide hard-to-find information about analog video equipment and techniques. Although the analog articles are out-of-date, there seem to be enough people still using analog equipment to make it worth keeping these articles posted.

Basics

Cameras & camcorders

Audio

Foreign

DTV and HDTV

Lighting

VCRs & editing

Studio

Other

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Dr. Peter Utz's 2006 book, available now from McFarland Publishing.
TODAY'S VIDEO: Equipment, Setup, and Production 4th. edition, a 553 page (900 illustrations) text covering numerous aspects of video and audio.

Click for info on other books available from Peter Utz:

Introduction to Audio (2003) 263 pages. Audio production and equipment setup.
Studio and Camcorder Television Production (1999) 460+ page lite version of Today's Video 3rd ed. primarily for schools.

Click here for a glossary of video terms (302KB)

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Why is the author unabashedly pushing his books? Silly question. If you had spent years writing what you thought was the best texts in the field since scrolled papyrus, you'd want videographers to know about it. By throwing some neat freebies onto my website as bait, maybe I can attract your attention. So, let's see if the web sells.