This is a well written article by Jenny Wagler from the Business in Vancouver magazine. Among others in our industry, Jenny interviewed Sue Greening, also mentioning the BCPVA and Reeltime Videoworks in her article. Jenny highlights the current state of the corporate video industry in Vancouver. Enjoy!

Vancouver Corporate Video  Production Industry Article – BIV

Our final meeting for 2011. RSVP Here.

• When: Wednesday December 7, 2011
• Where: MetroTown Mall, Sears Community Room
• Time: Meeting starts at 6:30 sharp
• Arrive: Join us a 6:15 for Networking and Refreshments

Included this month:

• John Banovich will preview his latest trailer.
• Vendor demonstration on the Sony FS100 from Genesis Matrix
• Vendor presentation from Precision Disc.
• Door Prize Raffle of a Harddrive from Precision Disc

Genesis Matrix

Have you been wanting to learn more about the Sony FS100? If so don’t miss
this meeting as Genesis Matrix will be covering them from top to bottom and
several cameras will be on hand for you to “play” with.

Matrix Video’s Broadcast & Professional Sales and Rentals departments
provide image makers with the latest tools and technology required to
realize their creative vision. They specialize in broadcast & professional
video, visual effects, intelligent media servers, and high performance
computer networking systems for the entertainment, educational, public, and
corporate marketplaces. In short, your one stop source for state-of-the-art
audio/video and digital production hardware and software.

Precision Disc

Precision Disc Manufacturing Corp, another great vendor that supports the
BCPVA is stopping by to give us some information about their company.
Precision is donating a Harddrive as a raffle prize!!

Precision is your factory-direct partner for CD manufacturing and DVD
manufacturing, as well as short-run CD duplication and DVD duplication,
along with the very best in eco-friendly print and packaging solutions. From
our offices and replication plant in Surrey, BC (a suburb of Vancouver)
Precision Disc has all your bases covered with the best combination of
price, quality, product and service that you’ll find anywhere in Canada.

2011 BCPVA year end dinner group photo

2011 State of the Video Industry

Disruptive technology and the relevance of BCPVA Membership.

For the past few years I’ve spoken at this event, the BCPVA year end dinner, and given my state of the video industry address. This year I wanted to talk about disruptive technology and the challenges it creates for us individually as video producers and on our association as a whole.

This is my tenth year in the video industry, eighth as the owner of a Vancouver Video Production Company called Shawn Lam Video Inc.. And during that time I’ve produced just over 1 million dollars in corporate and event video productions. When I first started MiniDV was the standard amongst our membership, although DVDs were just starting to gain popularity. Just to show you how far we have come as an industry in ten years, in my first year in the industry, we had more demand for VHS tapes than DVDs.

Vancouver Video Association Speech – click for full speech

While most of the fifteen categories were judged entirely by a peer panel of accredited Merited Professional Videographers, the Wedding Movie Trailer category was ultimately decided by online votes. An initial group of six finalists were chosen by the MPV accredited panel and Expo conference attendees and professional bridal consultants determined the winners through online voting.

Rendulic, who serves locally as an executive member for the BC Professional Videographers Association, only joined WEVA three months prior to the competition but quickly demonstrated that his work is on par with the industry’s top international talents. Because the finalist videos did not display the entrant company names, Rendulic only found out he was a finalist when he was viewing and voting for his own selections.

“When I saw one of my wedding trailers on the top six I didn’t believe what I was seeing. I kept refreshing my browser over and over just to make sure it was real,” remarked Rendulic, who kept refreshing the online conference browser window hours beyond the conference’s 6 PM close, until the winners were finally announced online, well past midnight on the 27th. “I couldn’t sleep because I was so excited and nervous. The WEVA CEA is the most prestigious event video award and to be recognized by my peers as having produced one of the best videos is truly an honour.”

The Wedding Movie Trailer Rendulic was recognized for was from Anita and Marko Mrsic’s wedding, which he filmed on July 9, 2011, at the Heart of Mary Croatian Roman Catholic Church, the Croatian Cultural Centre, and downtown Vancouver. The wedding movie trailer is a teaser highlight of a wedding video, released prior to the wedding video completion.

AVinhouse Event Videography is a professional video production company that produces family heirloom videos, event tribute videos (birthdays, weddings, documentaries, anniversaries & memorials), and corporate event videos.

Contact: Michael Rendulic, Owner and Video Producer, AVinhouse: 
(778) 835-6631 michael@avinhouse.com
 AVinhouse.com

Here are just a few international websites who have covered the news.  The list includes sites from Japan, Australia, & USA.

Sony Australia

NEX-FS100P 2011 Wins VIA Award at NAB 2011.

The British Columbia Professional Videographers Association presented Sony with the 2011 BCPVA Video Innovation Award for the NEX-FS100P.

The 2011 BCPVA VIA was presented to Jeff Ibbotson, Senior Vice President, Professional Solutions Group, by BCPVA delegate Shawn Lam, at NAB 2011.

The NEX-FS100P is a super 35 sensor interchangeable lens HD video camera with professional XLR audio inputs. The super 35 sensor allows the FS100 to attain superior low light sensitivity and a sought-after bokeh, or defocus. The FS100 improves on the problems that DSLR camera operators have been limited by, including moire, aliasing, rolling shutter, 12 minute record limits, lack of data-display-less HDMI record out, and egonomics.

The British Columbia Videographers Association is Canada’s largest non-profit professional video association and its members specialise in event, corporate, and wedding videography.

 

Blackmagic Design (Australia)

Blackmagic Design’s ATEM Television Studio Wins BCPVA Video Innovation Award
Milpitas, CA – May 18, 2011 – Blackmagic Design today announced that ATEM Television Studio is the recipient of a BCPVA Video Innovation Award, presented by the British Columbia Professional Videographers Association at the 2011 NAB Show.

The British Columbia Videographers Association is Canada’s largest non-profit professional video association. The BCPVA Video Innovation Award was awarded to companies that have released revolutionary new products for corporate and event video producers. Award recipients are judged according to the features, performance, innovation, uniqueness and value offered by their new product.

“The Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio is a game-changer in the video production switcher market,” said Shawn Lam, BCPVA delegate and former president. ”This powerful 6 input HDMI and HD to SDI switcher has the value proposition of a switcher costing thousands more, which is impressive considering its price of less than a thousand dollars.”

“It is an honor to win the BCPVA award. ATEM Television Studio is an amazing switcher that’s broadcast quality, and with it’s HDMI connections, H.264 encoding, and affordable price, it’s going to help so many new people experience the excitement of live production for the first time. These new HD consumer cameras are amazing quality, and look great, and then as the customers grow, they can start plugging in higher end SDI cameras for greater cable distances and quality,” said Grant Petty, CEO, Blackmagic Design. “Then within minutes of an event being complete, the H.264 files can be online for the world to see. It’s an amazing solution!”

The BCPVA VIA award is proudly displayed here, on Blackmagic’s website.

Atomos (Australia)

Atomos’ spectacular first NAB
Demonstrating Ninja (HDMI) + introducing Samurai (HD-SDI)

We surprised a few people when we arrived at NAB with a large booth, a platoon of employees and some of the hottest cameras in the show, all linked up and working with Ninjas.

Atomos was started by just two visionary guys, Ian and Jeromy, but it’s grown to have offices in three continents, a massively experienced workforce and a world-wide distribution network.

So we wanted to make a splash at NAB 2011, and that’s exactly what we did, winning a MARIO Award from TV Technology, a Broadcasting Engineering Pick Hit award and the 2011 BCPVA Video Innovation Award.

K-Teck

K-Tek had an amazing NAB 2011 show, displaying the new Norbert Sport, Tadpoles, and the updated Shoe Department, bringing in some amazing awards!

Creative Cow

News: Blackmagic Design’s ATEM Television Studio Wins BCPVA Video Innovation Award

 

Digital Production JP (Japan)

NAB2011 Photo Report : ATOMOS Ninja 3賞 受賞!!!

NAB2011期間中、最も盛況だったBoothの一つが、

ATOMOS Boothだったのではないでしょうか。

Digital Media World (Australia)

The British Columbia Professional Videographers Association presented Sony with the 2011 BCPVA Video Innovation Award for the NEX-FS100P. The NEX-FS100P is a super 35 sensor interchangeable lens HD video camera with professional XLR audio inputs. The super 35 sensor allows the FS100 to attain low light sensitivity and a bokeh, or defocus. The FS100 improves on problems that DSLR camera operators have been limited by, including moire, aliasing, rolling shutter, 12 minute record limits, lack of data-display-less HDMI record out, and ergonomics. The British Columbia Videographers Association is a professional video association with members specialised in event, corporate, and wedding videography.

Adobe – Adobe Production Premium CS5.5

Atomos – Atomos Ninja

Blackmagic Design – ATEM Television Studio

K-Tek – Norbert Sport

Sony – NEX-FS100

The BCPVA Video Innovation Award was awarded by BCPVA delegate and Past-President, Shawn Lam, at NAB 2011.  VIAs were awarded to companies who have released new products that are game-changers for corporate and event video producers.  In order for products to be eligible, a pre-production or production model must be demonstrated at NAB.  Awards are judged according to the following criteria:

Features/Performance
Innovation/Uniqueness
Price/Value

Congratulations to all the 2011 BCPVA VIA winners

Jeff Ibbotson, Sony Senior Vice President, Professional Solutions Group with 2011 BCPVA VIA

Grant Petty, CEO of Blackmagic Design, with 2011 BCPVA VIA Award

Ginna Baldassarre, Adobe Sr. Product Manager and Bill Roberts, Adobe Director of Product Managament, with 2011 BCPVA Video Innovation Award for Adobe Production Premium CS5.5

Atomos founders Jeromy Young and Ian Overliese with 2011 BCPVA VIA Award

K-Tek President Brenda Parker with 2011 BCPVA VIA award

The 2011 BCPVA VIA was presented to Brenda Parker, President K-Tek, by BCPVA delegate Shawn Lam, at NAB 2011.

K-Tek’s Norbert Camera Mounting System is a rock-solid foundation for the latest generation of video-capable DSLRs and compact high-definition video cameras. The flexible Norbert system has mounting options for both tripod and handheld use. Its lightweight machined-aluminum base frame can be used to mount a variety of production tools, including:

• external viewfinders and monitors
• strobe/flash
• continuous light sources
• audio recorders
• video recorders
• microphones

The Norbert Sport uses foam covered extendable graphite handes on the side of the frame to make shooting action video and extreme sports much easier. There is also a handle that mounts on the top for easy transitioning from an upper hand held perspective to a lower to the ground perspective.

K-Tek President Brenda Parker with 2011 BCPVA VIA award

K-Teck Norbert Sport with 2011 BCPVA Video Innovation Award

The British Columbia Videographers Association is Canada’s largest non-profit professional video association and its members specialize in event, corporate, and wedding videography.

For more information on the 2011 BCPVA VIA, please contact Shawn Lam, BCPVA Past-President, and President of Shawn Lam Video, a Vancouver Video Production Company.