Video Systems August 2005
By Beck Finley
Think of a classroom. For most, a blackboard-walled room with rows of desks comes to mind. But that's easy. Think back earlier, and you might come up with the slippery feel of the chalk's powdery residue in your hand, the wet-dog smell of wool sweaters warmed by the steam heat of an ancient radiator, or the abrupt woof of lighting a Bunsen burner. But then came modern technology, and the classroom changed. As fast as schools and universities could fill out the paperwork asking for grants...
By Cynthia Wisehart, Editorial Director
Is it innovation time again in projector technology? Is the focus on ANSI lumens and contrast ratios finally running its course as yesterday's breakthroughs...
By Barry Braverman
It's unusual for shooters and other mere mortals to glimpse the future with such clarity and insight. Over the last 30 years, many of us prescient industry professionals could only recognize the great leaps forward after the fact...
By Bill Miller
Pardon me while I clean out some clutter in my brain. Did you ever wonder why producers insist on hiding lavalier microphones for simple talking head...
By Tom Patrick McAuliffe
When my eval unit of the Sony AWS-G500 Anycast content creation system arrived in one rugged briefcase, I had a flashback to 25 years ago. At that time I was a young PH2 photographer's mate videographer in the U.S. Navy. I was stationed with the Atlantic Fleet Combat Camera Group and often deployed at a moment's notice to document naval and U.S. Marine operations...
If you have to capture audio on location, it's important to keep up with new mic designs. So, check out Sony's compact...
As prices for Flash RAM continue to plummet, innovative uses for this nonvolatile storage are popping up. The Marantz PMD660 audio recorder is a good example...
By Jeff Sauer
The last time I saw Bob Turner was shortly after NAB this past April at the local New England Chapter of SMPTE's annual NAB wrap-up. That's our local expert panel discussion about what was at NAB each year, and while Bob wasn't on...
By Steve Mullen
With Edius NX for HDV, Canopus offers an HDV editing solution that allows editors to approach HDV material in a couple of different ways. Depending on...
By Frank McMahon
Adobe has unleashed another new version of its Creative Suite: CS2. The first version of CS seemed hard to top, but this second version...
By Gary Eskow
If you haven't chosen a digital audio workstation yet, or are considering moving to a new platform, this is a great time to be in the market. The latest...
Kit makes storage portable...
PCs move off the desktop...
By Jeff Sauer
When was the last time a new projector model really grabbed your attention? If you were at InfoComm 2005, the answer may have been this past June in Las Vegas. As always, projector manufacturers tried to outperform and out-value each other...
By Cody Holt
Teenagers have their own way of, like, communicating, which is something Troy Lanier totally understands. That's because he's spent the better part of two decades in high school classrooms, first as a physics teacher, and for the last two years as a filmmaking instructor...
Compiled by Andrea Harden
A monthly assortment of fascinating market statistics....
I want to express my sympathies to Bob Turner's family and want to note how I will miss reading Bob's columns. Bob had a knack of telling it like it is...
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The AVCs of Display
Future Workflow, Today
Shoot Review — Sony AWS-G500 Anycast Station
Shoot Tools — Marantz
Remembering Bob Turner
Edit Review — Adobe Creative Suite 2
Projectors at InfoComm
Video by the Book