Video Systems July 2001COVERViewpointPhoto realityCynthia 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... FeaturesGreat VisionBy 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 … ...Venturing Beyond Standard DefBy 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 VideoBY 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... FantasylandStephen 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...... ProductsProducts
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...... SolutionsReporting live from the lunch lineBy 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 actionBy 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 lensTrevor 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 CutConsidering an upgradeBy 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.videoQuality assuranceBy 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 TracksScoring with a computerBy 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... ReviewsDiscreet Character Studio 3BY 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 3.0BY 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 deckBY 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... MusingsAll access videoBy 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... SpotlightSpreadin' rhythm aroundBy 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,... InboxDesktop 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... |