IEBA Communications

When it came time for the Frisco Chamber of Commerce to put together their 26th annual awards banquet / musical performance / auction event, they worked with Tetra Media Group, who immediately called Anthony Burokas to provide the control room, engineering, camera, and to direct the entire IMAG and recorded event.

The 3+ hour “broadcast” went perfectly and the 400+ attendees were thrilled at the quality of the production throughout the night. (continue reading…)

IRA expert and industry guru Ed Slott travels the country advising other IRA advisers on new regulations, strategies and the many little legal potholes that are out there- and how to avoid them.

When the team that produces his show & DVD’s came to Dallas, they hired only one local operator to come in and help set up the extensive camera, com & audio setup. They called Anthony Burokas. (continue reading…)

When AMP Productions needed crew for their Dallas VideoFest shoot, Anthony stepped up to the plate with many of the local production industry’s best.

This two-day shoot pulled out all the stops and featured full-on RED shooting, and some beautiful locations, as well as some expensive props, including a Lamborghini. (continue reading…)

Just finished a few days operating camera for the School of Beats pilot.

A very interesting concept of urban music hip-hop beatmasters competing to win various in-show competitions, but also a reality show with challenges and tasks and events thrown into the mix to make it interesting to watch, and/or laugh at. (continue reading…)

The lightweight, closed DT 280 / DT 290 series headsets are ideally suited for broadcasting applications. The headphone is featuring an efficient neodymium magnet system, a very high reproduction precision and a balanced sound. Isolation from surrounding noise is very good. Another special feature is the wide audio frequency response of the mic: 10 – 30,000 Hz. (continue reading…)

Now that movies are shot with HD video cameras, there is certainly a lot more work for video professionals who previously only aspired to produce TV. Everything else was film and that was a completely different beast. But now that the West was won by digital video cameras, I’ve been tapped to work on a period western movie to be shot on P2 in HD. With considerable HD experience, I’ll be part of the camera teams, working under the DP, of course. When in the west… do a Western. Heeyah! (continue reading…)

The venerable FX1 is a true prosumer HDV camcorder.
The pro model adds XLR inputs, but lens, chips, and images captured are identical.
HDV tape still is the cost leader for recording HD images. Shoot and go, or hand it off to the client.
True 3-CCD chips – no rolling shutter, no flash banding, no jello-cam, no image distortion.
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This handy little item is a combination waveform, vectorscope and audio scope all in one. The little 4″ LCD is not much to crow about these days- it’s not OLED like a Sony Walkman or Samsung phone, but you can loop the output of this device to the screen of your choice (composite in and out).

So if you have a composite NTSC feed of your video, this portable device can measure it and give you calibrated IRE readings, vectors for calibrating bars or color charts and more. All this off any 12v supply (AC adapter included.) (continue reading…)

Featuring a comprehensive backlit display, an easy-to-use menu system, a hard drive, and a removable, rechargeable battery, the Focus FS-4 is the perfect DTE companion for DV and HDV handheld shoots. Designed for use in even the roughest conditions, the FS-4 includes a six- or ten-second (model-dependent) electronic shock cache to ensure that you never lose footage. (continue reading…)

I’ve used the SE-800 to produce Flavors of America for many seasons. We do this with as many as four FireWire cameras in to the mixer, and then FireWire back out to a DVCAM deck. We compared this to component video through the Sony DFS-700 broadcast video mixer and the SE-800 won- hands down. Cleaner, sharper, more vibrant images. It is visually indistinguishable from the digital tape recorded in the camcorder itself. (continue reading…)

Lite Kit-1 – $50/day
2 V-lights, 2 Pro light, stands, gels, scrims, gel holders, various mounts, arms, flags, clips, umbrellas. In a case.

Lite Kit-2 – $60/day
3 Omni lights, 2 Tota lights, stands, gels, scrims, gel holders, various mounts, arms, clips, umbrellas. In a case. (continue reading…)

This is a great live/recorded sound mixer.
Sliders (not knobs) easily relay channel loudness.
Aux 3/4 bus makes this a 4-channel mixer.
Four aux buses (pre/post fader) make it even more versatile.

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Got a big shoot with lots of people to track, then you need something better than a little receiver velcroed to the side of the camcorder. You need professional audio, amplified, directional, diversity antennas. You need easy and quick selection between hundreds of MHz to avoid TV stations, handheld radios, and more RF interference. This is where robust wireless audio systems like the Sony WRR-840 and WRR-820 really shine. Multiple outputs to feed multiple cameras, mixers, viewers, recorders. Easily adjustable everything. (continue reading…)

Do you need a lighting grid in a home where there is no grid? Need a vertical post between floor and ceiling to hide a light where you can’t see a stand?
Then you need the Bogen / Manfrotto AutoPole.

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This Roland R-1 records and plays back at a crystal-clear, 24-bit audio resolution without compression. Electrolytic capacitors provide stable, reliable power to the analog circuits, eliminating DC interference and supplying low-distortion sound.

Audio recorded into the R-1 is stored as stereo files directly onto removable Compact Flash card. Maximum recording time is approximately 137 minutes per 64 MB card. Maximum supported card is 2 GB. (continue reading…)

SP and LP record/playback speeds, analog recording capability, i.LINK DV interface (IEEE 1394), 16-bit or 12-bit PCM audio with audio dubbing (12-bit), frame advance, crystal clear still/slow motion, index titler, time code, and more.

The GV-D900 also offers the convenience of a 5.5-inch active matrix color LCD monitor for viewing playback or recordings right on the unit. It also features playback of data code to see the gain/iris/focus/white balance & more settings when the tape was recorded in a Sony camcorder. (continue reading…)

CVX-V18NS remote head camera.
Camera has image stabilization, 18x optical zoom & night shot.
Remotely control all camera functions from base. (no tilt or pan)

Comes with 6′ cable. 20′ extension cable. AC Power Supply.
Also runs off Infolithium-L batts without connection to GV-D900. (continue reading…)

Took a quick trip back up to Philly to not only set up and engineer a few episodes of Healthy Flavors for Multi Media Productions, but I also directed both shows. Feedback from the clients on hand was excellent.

The familiar team was assembled for this shoot: Bob Terrio was on camera, Larry Bossone was on crane. We added the new MMP freelancer on camera 2 and he did a fine job. Everyone handled setting up and shooting in a new, unfamiliar location with ease. (continue reading…)

Anthony had already worked for The American Heart Association before coming down to Dallas, so when he did arrive here, he was happy to help out again with their “Go Red For Women” campaign.

Anthony shot two days of HD as six women prepared and began a 6-month fitness program to promote heart healthy awareness among women. Four of them were selected to actively blog about their odyssey. (continue reading…)

When it came time for Datavideo to debut their new HD video mixer at NAB, they picked Anthony Burokas. They had been working with Anthony for a few months, putting together various usage scenarios for their user manual. Then brought Anthony in to demo all the features of this new video mixer for end users and VAR’s from around the world. (continue reading…)

There are experts in certain fields that are sought after for their expertise— and they are quite expensive to secure. So when you get them, you make the most of their presence. This is what we made happen at Merck. A Customer Focus guru was brought in to go over the concepts and principles, as well as provide many enlightening stories. And he did so over the course of a long day when two different departments sat down with him in our E-Learning studio. (continue reading…)

Speed Channel’s series Pinks is deceptively simple looking. People get together, drag race down a strip, and there’s a winner and a looser.

But it’s actually a “reality” show, which means more than a dozen cameras: 9 on-shoulder cameras covering each of the key talent members, 10 POV cameras moved from car to car, and EVERYONE has a body mic! (continue reading…)

For the quick dub of full size and MiniDV tapes to VHS/SVHS, this deck was the shizzle in 2000. Now used less and less, it still serves as a great feeder deck for the SD projects that come in to the office. (continue reading…)