Taking the measure of the Wagi Valley in Papua New Guinea’s central highlands. At the ready, a shoulder-held camcorder.
With the advent of the camcorder in the 1980s, the “one-man band,” that weighed-down lumbering figure from the local news station, could actually have some mobility and become a videographer.
Now, technology has taken us that next step, not only freeing up the cameraman with better quality in a smaller package but speeding up the processing and editing with laptop non-linear video editing that has all the features of a post house in a mini-footprint. We no longer talk about a one-man band. Now, the videographer is a “one-man studio.”
The camera is tapeless with the computer ingesting files at more than 7 times real time, speeding up the entire edit process.
The cameras weigh one-third of what the big one’s do, facilitating unique high and low angles and the avoidance of ENG operators classic low-back problems. The rapidity and depth of laptop editing can even mean a “fine cut” in the field. With the videographer editing his/her material you never miss those “great” shots that the post-production editor misses. And with broadband internet becoming the standard, if you have the time you can deliver the final product anywhere in the world within hours, and at negligible cost.
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