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Video Systems September 2001

Viewpoint

Digital Domain

Cynthia Wisehart, Editorial Director

At Randal Kleiser's house above Los Angeles, just past the horse corral and next to the pool, an enormous projection screen seemed to hang out over the...


Features

In Your Face

By Cynthia Wisehart

When SPIDERMAN debuted in 1999 at Universal Studios' Islands of Adventure theme park, it was clearly one of the most ambitious ridefilms ever created. It was exactly the type of show that could only be film......


Adventures in Three-Dimensional Video

By Stephen Porter

Ready to turn regular 2D video streams, broadcasts, or retail point-of-purchase displays into stereo3D or 360-degree video adventures?...


The Shooter's Guide to DVD

By Barry Braverman

Faced with DVD Video's increasing popularity, we shooters would do well to become more familiar with the requirements of MPEG-2 encoding. Apple's new DVD Studio Pro and similar products are opening a whole new world to many of us hoping to produce our own DVD titles on the desktop......


A Glass Menagerie

By Peter H. Putman, CTS

As I sit and write this review, I can't help but feel that I'm in some kind of Orwellian nightmare — surrounded by large, flat-panel displays showing larger-than-life talking heads. Of course, the nightmare is quickly dispelled when......


Leaner and Meaner?

By Stephen Porter

You could tell from the moment you walked in the door that this wasn't going to be a typical trade show session. There'd be no boring speakers and sleepy audience members here. With 15 minutes still to go before show time, the seats of the giant ballroom were nearly filled......


Numbers

September 2001 Numbers

Compiled by Andrea Harden

Numbers is only available in PDF format......


Products

Products

Bogen Photo 503 and 505, Hitachi SK-555, Mirror Image Teleprompters Laptop-1, Canon XL1S, Meta Motion Gypsy Junior, and more....


Solutions

In League with Proline

By Trevor Boyer

At this summer's National Urban League Conference in Washington, D.C., daily video wrapups became a who's-who digest for attendees. Founded in 1910, the...


Delivering a Missile

By Trevor Boyer

Timeliness often makes or breaks a news story. On July 14 on a remote Central Pacific island within the Kwajalein Atoll, the military performed the sixth...


Focusing on a Turnaround

By Trevor Boyer

The year 2000 was a good one for Oregon State University's football program. Coming off its first winning season in almost 30 years, the Beavers went...


The Cut

A Better Way to Share

By Bob Turner

The time has come to replace the CMX EDL with a high-tech, more flexible form of metadata the Advanced Authoring Format is here. Sidebars Data dictionary...


web.video

Internet2 is Coming

By Frank McMahon

At universities all across the country, a new Internet is being developed that will blow the doors off today's Web. Streaming video over a cable modem?...


Audio Tracks

Making the Investment

By Gary Eskow

Have you defined your place in the audio post business and how to best spend your infrastructure dollars? Some audio professionals still follow the time-honored...


Reviews

Electric Image Amorphium Pro

BY FRANK McMAHON

Typically if you are skilled in any high-end 3D program, you are used to the often-tedious mechanics of creating with that type of software. You might...


Matrox DigiSuite LX

BY STEVE MULLEN

The RT2000/2500 from Matrox has garnered so much attention over the last year that it's easy to forget about the company's other family of products. Called...


Apple DVD Studio Pro 1.0

BY JIM GRANT

With the introduction of DVD Studio Pro, Apple gives small- to medium-sized video production facilities the ability to add professional-level DVD authoring...


Musings

Childhood Lessons Learned

By Cody Holt

Faith Fuller is extremely passionate about her work. She knows no other way to work. She's her parent's daughter In 1965, Millard and Linda Fuller were...


Spotlight

Making Films without Film

By Darroch Greer

Veteran filmmaker Scott Saunders has never shot on 35mm film originally out of necessity, but now by choice. In 1986, Scott Saunders teamed up with Matthew...


Inbox

Media 100 Mystery Solved

Letters from our readers...


Corrections

June 2001's Window Shopping feature (page 28) stated that Eddie Bauer uses Visual Circuits' POP Video Player in its store window displays. The retail...


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