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Video Systems July 2001

COVER

Viewpoint

Photo reality

Cynthia Wisehart, Editorial Director

Long before director Oliver Stone put us inside the football player's helmet, telephoto lenses were there, changing what we saw, and therefore what we thought...


Features

Great Vision

By Barry Braverman

Over the last 20 years, I've bought houses and cars with it. I've traveled the world with it — the Arctic, the Far East, and South America. Now if I can just pay for my two kids' private-school educations with it …

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Venturing Beyond Standard Def

By Bob Turner

There is growing interest in greater-than-standard-definition uncompressed images as high definition and digital cinema start to draw interest from postproduction...


Vehicles for Video

BY PHILIP DE LANCIE

Effective video can illustrate a more complete vision to an audience than any other single form of communication, says Tobias Farmer of Lambesis, an advertising...


Fantasyland

Stephen Porter

As trade shows go, few offer as much visual stimulation and simple, gee-whiz fun as the Siggraph Conference and Exhibition. From the dazzling animations......


Products

Products

Text Effects Digital Anarchy Elements of Anarchy This three-filter plug-in set for After Effects enables users to create a number of text elements. Based on......


Solutions

Reporting live from the lunch line

By Trevor Boyer

A middle school class creates television weekly and shows its teacher just how its generation is. There's a news team in California with members who were...


Crouching tiger, HD action

By Trevor Boyer

Shooting in HD in the Indian jungle, the lens picks up every whisker when tigers lunge for the camera. Carol Amore knows tigers intimately. Shooting the...


All Bjork, all the time?

Trevor Boyer

For a country of fewer than 300,000 residents, the presence of more than one internationally renowned musical act is quite a feat. Iceland, the homeland...


Projecting Jason through one lens

Trevor Boyer

After discovering the Titanic at the ocean floor in 1985, Dr. Robert Ballard found his mailbox full of letters from children who wanted to tag along on...


The Cut

Considering an upgrade

By Bob Turner

A few weeks ago, Wilson Chao, co-owner of Cambridge Television Productions (in New York and Boston), shared the dais with me at a SMPTE event. Cambridge...


web.video

Quality assurance

By Frank McMahon

Process before you compress, and begin to explore the ways you can improve the look of your web video projects. Before you compress your finished production...


Audio Tracks

Scoring with a computer

By Gary Eskow

Even without a composer, fitting an audio track onto a video clip shouldn't be a square peg/round hole negotiation. Got an unlimited budget? If you're...


Reviews

Discreet Character Studio 3

BY DOUGLAS KING

As any animator can tell you, animating one character can be a long and tedious process. Add hundreds of characters to a scene, and you've got instant...


AIST MoviePack 3.0

BY TOM PATRICK McAULIFFE

Like much of life, every product has its good and bad aspects, and one man's nirvana is another user's hell. This is the case with MoviePack 3.0, the...


Panasonic AG-DV1000 DV deck

BY STEVE MULLEN

Panasonic's new DV Proline includes the AG-DVC10 camcorder (see the June 2001 review, Outside the DVCPRO family, the Panasonic DVC10 still brings DV to...


Musings

All access video

By Cody Holt

For 30 years, Downtown Community Television Center has been providing access to the news and free video instruction. Like so many other bohemians living...


Spotlight

Spreadin' rhythm around

By Darroch Greer

Film preservationist Mark Cantor uses advances in video to make sure jazz fans' toes will keep tapping well into the future. Every June in Los Angeles,...


Inbox

Desktop dilemma

I have just read Rick Shaw's review of Mac video capture cards (Trailblazing Cards for Mac Video, April 2001, page 74). Thanks for the informative piece....


Corrections

The phone number for Accom listed in Putting the Tech in Tech TV (March 2001, page 24) was incorrect. The correct number is 650-328-3818. Also, the name...


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