Millimeter June/July 2006
By Michael Goldman
Director Robert Altman, now 81 and fresh off receiving an honorary Academy Award for years of filmmaking excellence, says his primary reason for suddenly...
By Michael Goldman
When, at press time, Superman Returns rolled into the digital intermediate phase at Technicolor Digital Intermediates (TDI), Burbank, Calif., it was very close to a complete movie, awaiting only the completion of a handful of visual effects shots. As that was happening, director Bryan Singer...
By Blair Jackson
The relationship between a director and his or her editor is a special one in a real sense, it is those two people who give shape, rhythm, and coherence...
By Cynthia Wisehart
I was pretty sure in 2002 that Jim Jannard would eventually try to build a camera. He collected them and used them himself; his company, Oakley, had an...
By Ellen Wolff
Movie fans have known the Poseidon story since the 1972 original, but director Wolfgang Petersen brought some ambitious ideas to this tale for the new Warner Bros. version....
By Ellen Wolff
On June 4, 2006, a milestone was marked on the Santa Barbara, Calif., waterfront: the 22nd anniversary of the founding of Wavefront Technologies. Sadly,...
By Michael Goldman
On June 30, Superman Returns will no doubt steal the focus from another technologically significant film that debuts that day. Like DP Newton Thomas Sigel,...
By Michael Goldman
From a visual effects standpoint, X-Men: The Last Stand may be the most complex X-Men film yet. In fact, visual effects supervisor John Bruno says the...
By Michael Goldman
For filmmakers, one problem resulting from the con- troversies surrounding The Da Vinci Code involved being shut out of certain locations central to the...
By Michael Goldman
The 45-minute IMAX film Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D uses footage of actors portraying NASA moon explorers. Sassoon Film Design, Santa...
By Dan Ochiva
Even as video slowly but steadily replaces the Thomas Edison/W.K.L. Dickson's invention of motion pictures, OLED (organic light-emitting diode) technology...
By S. D. Katz, D. W. Leitner, Dan Ochiva, and Jan Ozer
Anyone who attended the annual National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention came away with one shared feeling: The industry is doing fine. Whether...
Adobe Production Studio software It has taken a long time to get here, but Adobe finally has a balanced set of applications for desktop artists on a budget....
By Dan Ochiva
With a new version of Adobe's Flash 8 delivered, the app should continue to gain in popularity for web animation, as well as for use with cell phones, PDAs, and other media gear.
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By Dan Ochiva
If you work on feature film mastering and restoration projects, you know the sheer mass of images — some 150,000 motion picture frames for your average-length film ...
By Dan Ochiva
Time, as we've learned, is money. In post, every bump up in speed, whether in rendering or throughput, can add up to savings...
By Dan Ochiva
Introduced at NAB 2006, Teranex's portable Mini Standards Converter converts SD video to and from HD in realtime, while also working with the two international frequency standards, 50Hz and 60Hz ...
By Dan Ochiva
The heated GPU race between ATI and Nvidia — the two main suppliers of graphics cards — continues unabated...
By Dan Ochiva
While Final Cut Pro continues to garner an enthusiastic following, Apple's Xsan storage area network has been slower to catch on. (Xsan virtualizes Apple's Xserve RAID arrays so that they appear as a single pool of storage.) ...
By Dan Ochiva
At NAB 2006, FilmLight continued in its quest to be the definer of high-end DI by introducing a considerably faster 4K film scanner, the Northlight 2 ...
By Dan Ochiva
Once an app becomes a category leader in its particular specialty, users benefit as third parties develop innovative add-on products...
By Dan Ochiva
Although disk array prices are dropping as hard drive costs plummet, buying turnkey gear can still be pricey...
By Darroch Greer
While Davis Guggenheim's film An Inconvenient Truth will leave no doubt that global warming is a catastrophe in the making, the director himself was a...
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