Video Systems February 2006
By Michael Goldman
Back in 2004, in the early days of an initiative to upgrade their station's technical capabilities for HD, officials at KUSA in Denver decided to configure the station's news helicopter for aerial image capture in 1080i HD. At the time, of course, this presented a host of complications because the station had no template to follow — there were no fully HD-capable news helicopters operating at any TV station back then. KUSA not only had to outfit a flying......
By Cynthia Wisehart
Significantly, the two largest associations in the video display systems world, InfoComm and the National Systems Contractors Association (NSCA), have...
By S. D. Katz
Glidecam makes prosumer and professional camera mounting devices, vehicle mounts, and cranes for video and film cameras. Its line of handheld camera stabilizers ranges from the Glidecam 2000 Pro (under $400) to the professional Glidecam Gold System, which nears $25K. For a few years now I had been thinking about mixing technologies. I'd take footage shot with an inexpensive handheld steadying device and process it...
Reviewer: Tom Patrick McAuliffe
It's a production gear cart and a pro dolly system rolled into one. The Shooter Scooter from Canada's VFGadgets.com ferries your gear and accommodates...
New LED-type lighting on a camcorder makes for a compact shooting rig, but most lights need their own power source...
Vision Systems CCD cameras. Works with GP-US742CU Camera Control Unit (CCU)....
Remote Control Camera Panel... Polecam connects via XLR cables or twisted pair up to 0.62 miles....
By S. D. Katz
CGI tends to get artists thinking far too much about technique, but not enough about ideas. The availability of great 3D models has created a new breed of artist in which collage techniques, sampling, and repurposing are a path to original work...
Reviewer: D. W. Leitner
Fast, good, cheap. In product development, you're told pick any two. In choosing an HD editing system, you're lucky to get one and a half. The ideal HD...
Reviewer: Franklin McMahon
If you've ever wanted to created Flash projects but were daunted by the learning curve of the Macromedia program, you might want to check out Xtivity from Tivity Software....
As storage capacities grow, with more info going onto one array, a system crash could be a catastrophe. Backing up your media is critical. Maxtor addresses that need with its Maxtor Shared Storage Plus...
10GbE networked storage for Mac ...
When HD DDRs first came to market, their high data rate precluded much processing beyond the basics. Now, with an updated version of Doremi's V1-HD server, users gain capabilities such as time delay and slow motion for sports. ...
Huge Systems, a division of Ciprico, now offers the Dual Channel MediaVault 4110, with 4Gbps Fibre Channel I/O able to sustain about 300MBps, according to the company...
With today's more powerful hardware, added functionality comes via new software. Digital Rapids CarbonHD 1.0 software, for example...
Visual Circuits Mantis ...
By Kristinha M. Anding
That's how Terrance Albrecht describes the role of video technology in her examination of pediatric cancer patients and their families. Albrecht, the research director for the communication and behavioral oncology program at Detroit's Karmanos Cancer Institute, is the principal investigator behind a study attempting to measure how familial behaviors affect young patients' pain management...
Will Sony be on your must-see HD list? You'll want to stay tuned; it's just two months until the company fills the mid-range of its HD capture and record...
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