Movie Director

Francis Ford Betteridge tackles video promos

Video Producer

Jim Betteridge eases you into the big leather chair, switches on the monitors, presses the 'play' button...

Film Score Writer

James Betteridge goes to Hollywood, or thereabouts, to find out all about sound and vision

Software & hardware

Todd AO Studios

Simon Braund visits New York's busiest movie post-production facility

Andy Summers & Midge Ure Go To Rockschool

A day's filming for TV's Rockschool reveals Andy and Midge's playing tricks.

Martin Sheehan explains the workings of audio/visual slide productions.

Been to the flicks recently? Impressed by the sound system? Thought not. Tim Goodyer looks at the current plight of cinema sound and some of the digital alternatives.

Tony Hastings provides plenty of inside information as he concludes his tale of how a lucky break resulted in his first commission in the lucrative world of advertising jingles and soundtracks.

Hex's Matt Black reveals the secrets of getting started and getting in sync with video, graphics and music

The Producers

André Jacquemin stars in "The Python and the Redwood Stage", introducing Doris Day as Fred Dellar, and a supporting cast including Dame Edna Everage and the Leyton Buzzards. Whipcrackaway, whipcrackaway!

How live TV copes with very live music.

Tonmeister Course lecturer, Francis Rumsey, explains how timecodes are used to synchronise audio to video in Part 3 of our series.

In the final part of his series on the synchronisation of audio and video, Francis Rumsey summarises the possible applications of timecodes in helping to automate the music studio.

The revolutionary Video 8 format has resulted in a new generation of domestic video recorders that offer high quality pictures and up to 6 tracks and 18 hours of stereo digital sound. Francis Rumsey explains how.

A look at Molinare video studios

Thomas Dolby Part 2

Thomas Dolby at TV South.

Video Makers In Action

The making of a rock video promo

Video Makers In Action

The Watershed Arts video production unit in focus

One of the stars of Channel 4's Fourmations, Brian Johnson's Improvisions combine musical performance with real-time manipulation of video images. Peter Ridsdale trips on this.

Two ways to control video images using the existing musical interface.

Whistle Test

One Two go see the Test.