DCP August 2006
By Cynthia Wisehart
As church leaders understand the expanding role of AV in their ministries, they accumulate a list of skills from event producer to ENG newsgather to niche...
By Cynthia Wisehart
After all the so-called religious battles over film vs. HD (to borrow a quote from Larry Thorpe (or was that Oscar Wilde?), it seems appropriate to see...
By Barry Braverman
In the beginning, it was known as FutureSplash, the product of a small startup that had come up with a way to deliver animation to dog-slow computers...
Reviewer: Tom Patrick McAuliffe
The U.S. Congress recently set the final official date for the end of analog television. This is the end of a 20-year process. By Feb. 17, 2009, all analog...
Reviewer: S.D. Katz
Combining traditional drawing and 3D modeling has been the goal of many CG developers since the '80s. This has produced interesting haptic devices and...
At NAB, Anton Bauer debuted its unique-looking ElipZ system of battery, light, and grip products. The heart of the system is...
Described as the market's first voice-activated teleprompting solution, Autoscript's prompter...
Getting rid of videotape for production was a major theme at NAB 2006. Ikegami was there, selling its hard-drive-based Editcam...
Collecting and creating the “you are there” sound from venues such as hockey rinks and football stadiums requires sensitive but tough mics. The AKG C 562 CM...
Improving audio quality in the field can be expensive, but new solutions continue to pop up that take the budgeting sting out. Sony's WRT-8P...
As Flash RAM recording technology permeates, audio decks can be had more cheaply. How's that? Complex tape transports or even hard-drive...
By Jan Ozer
Every once in a while, it's fun to bring in a range of computers and see how they compare performance-wise. Certainly, the cross-platform capability of...
Reviewer: S.D. Katz
We have all upscaled images in Adobe Photoshop, Autodesk Combustion, or other image editors, so we expect enlarging PAL or NTSC footage to HD to produce...
Reviewer: Tom Patrick McAuliffe
Like many of you, I cut my teeth in the video business more years ago than I care to remember. But I do remember threading up a 3/4in. video tape recorder,...
PC heavyweight HP unveiled its new entry-level workstation at Siggraph. The xw4400 is based on Intel's new Core 2 Duo processors....
Sony Media's latest product sounds like something out of a pre-computer era daydream: For only a few hundred dollars...
The new Mac mini is the least expensive way to get to Apple's Intel Core Duo processor...
Some folks claim that the NLE competition is over. Unless you buy an editing product with a name that begins with Adobe...
Call it Grass Valley Edius Pro 4.0. Debuting at NAB, version 4 of the software drops the Canopus...
For many Adobe Premiere users, Matrox's RT.X100 card was one of the first to help the NLE software...
Who doesn't like small and light especially if you have to haul a projector around for different presentations?...
It's become the new Holy Grail in video: creating one high-res master, from which you convert and distribute every version you need...
Keeping the clutter down can be key to save both space and power requirements in machine rooms. That's part of For-A's pitch...
Size matters when space is tight. Occupying only 4RU of a standard 19in. EIA equipment rack, Marshall Electronics' V-R842P-AFHD...
While both Nvidia and ATI have introduced graphics cards that can be used in dual-card configurations...
Even as improved technology delivers the latest and greatest in HDTV monitors, don't forget the rest of the system...
By Franklin McMahon
No doubt you've heard of the term but what does it mean? And why is it important? RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and its basic mission is to...
By Cody Holt
Things started badly for Chris Suchorsky as he set out to make his first feature-length film in the summer of 2000. With only a week of vacation time...
By Dan Ochiva
A bevy of websites concur that Intel is finally back on top with the debut of its Core 2 Duo processors. The microprocessors mark the end of Intel's long-running...
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