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Lorraine Grula is a well-respected professional working primarily in the Nashville, Tennessee Video and TV News market, Lorraine’s spent her life in the field creating video stories on every subject imaginable. Primarily, she worked as a hands-on field producer, photographer and video tape editor.


Outdated Video Formats: Getting Them Converted

I don’t know about you, but I have a huge box of old videotapes that I would LOVE to have converted to DVD.

Some are old home movies, some are professional video stories and documentaries I produced twenty and thirty years ago. I actually have footage of me as a newborn baby! The rest of the box contains the next 50 years of my life.

Yup, there I am competing in AAU swimming and graduating from high school. (Well…actually it’s Steven Burke graduating from high school. My dad was a bit distracted and just filmed the first person he saw with long blond hair.)

I have old u-Matic 3/4 inch video, 1 inch video reel-to-reel video, 8mm film, VHS and Professional Beta. Problem is, I can’t LOOK at any of it because I do not have the right equipment to view it on.

The solution is to find a place that does have all the proper equipment and pay them to convert it all to DVD.

It’s on my to-do list.
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Lighting for Video: Compact Fluorescent Lights



If you are looking to buy lights for making videos, you might want to consider using compact fluorescent lights.


Compact Fluorescent lights (compact flo as they are nicknamed) are becoming popular as the new “green” way to light your home and you can find the bulbs almost everywhere now. They are also being used in video production and they have several distinct advantages over traditional video lights.

Traditional video lights are usually tungsten halogen. They get HOTTER than a firecracker. You can easily burn your fingers on them. I even burned a hole in the wall once when I bounced the light just a little too close. Oops.

Compact Fluorescent lights on the other hand do not get hot. That feature, in and of itself, makes me want to buy some.

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