2015 Best Products of the Year by Videomaker

2015 Best Products of the Year by Videomaker: 2015 has seen fantastic new equipment for video production. 4K is everywhere, but cameras are also steadily moving towards higher frame rates. Customizable workstations meet a wide range of needs and high quality camera stabilization has come into the reach of even low-budget productions. Video producers have a world of options; it can sometimes be troublesome to sort through them all. Fear not! We’re here to sift through the options for you. After carefully reviewing 12 months of the newest, latest, and greatest, we have compiled the cream of the crop into one list. The long awaited: Best Products of the Year Awards, 2015.

Criteria

...To be considered for these annual awards, the Videomaker editors must have had a chance to have some hands-on time with a product within that time span. In some cases, a full review was never published, but you can be sure that we personally evaluated the product.

After carefully reviewing 12 months of the newest, latest, and greatest, we have compiled the cream of the crop into one list.

Additionally, there are some great products that were released in 2015 that we didn’t have a chance to evaluate before our evaluation window closed. Notably, the Sony a7S II and the most recent iMac 5K came in a bit late and thus will have to wait for the 2016 awards to be considered.

Main Considerations

When making a decision about winners, we prefer to recognize products that support our philosophical mission of encouraging democratization and inclusiveness in the media industry. We choose to award recognition to products that we feel will best help the largest share of our community share their ideas and express themselves with video. And so, without further adieu here are the winners. ...Continue to the full article