Photo Finish

By Tom Patrick McAuliffe and Cynthia Wisehart

In the 1980s, most photo news rooms embraced digital still photography some did it kicking and screaming, but it was seen as a positive and productive...

Video Planet

By Cynthia Wisehart

As we go to press, Google is threatening to sign a $1.65 billion deal for YouTube, turning the video sharing site into an establishment player, never...

Hands-on HDX

By Barry Braverman

I'll be blunt: I'm a seasoned pro with more than 25 years under my battery belt, and I don't like working with substandard gear. I feel this attitude...

Shoot Review:
GlobalStreams GlobeCaster 3.1

Reviewer: Tom Patrick McAuliffe

GlobeCaster is based on technology first developed in the late 1990s by the now-defunct company Play for its Trinity all-in-one video production system....

Shoot Tools: Sony

ClearVid CMOS is the new chip that Sony developed for its latest 1080i HDV camcorder, the HVR-V1U, available in December. The three 1/4in....

Shoot Tools: Innovision Optics

Those high POV shots usually cost a fortune to achieve. That's why Innovision has developed its Bird's Eye camera support column...

Shoot Tools: Shining Technology

Competing against the likes of Focus Enhancements, Shining Technology offers up hard disk recording solutions ...

Shoot Tools: Telemetrics

As camera technology gets cheaper, multicamera shoots for training, educational, and government video projects become more plausible...

Shoot Tools: Litepanels

The Litepanels 1×1 light (it's 12"×12") is typically powered by an external 90-260VAC switching adapter, so a lithium-ion battery would do wonders for the flexibility and mobility of the LED light...

Shoot Tools: Canon

With these new HDV camcorders, Canon is building from two successful templates — the structure of its successful DV product line...

Edit Expertise: Test Drive: HP xw4400

By Jan Ozer

Intel and AMD have been spewing new CPU architectures at an alarming rate from hyper-threaded to multiprocessor to multiprocessor/hyper-threaded, and...

Edit Review: Sony Cinescore

Reviewer: Franklin McMahon

Sony Media Software has introduced a new soundtrack creation program called Cinescore, which makes it easy to produce music expertly timed to your video...

Edit Tools: Ciprico

With its new MediaVault 4440, Ciprico is making storage mobile for those editing in the field. The MediaVault 4440 is configured with four removable, self-contained vPods (video pods), each with its own 4Gbps Fibre Channel ...

Edit Tools: Panasonic

New for Panasonic's P2 line of solid-state-recording cameras, the AJ-PCD20 is a five-slot drive that fits up to five 8GB...

Edit Tools: HP

Up to this point, Apple and Dell have been the only manufacturers of 30in. LCD computer displays. HP is changing that with its new LP3065...

Edit Tools: Samsung

If you prioritize color fidelity over sheer size, Samsung's new 931C might be a good option for your computer display...

Edit Tools: AMCC

For external storage, FireWire is certainly not the fastest interface. SATA II provides a transfer rate of up to 3Gbps vs. 800Mbps...

Edit Tools: Blackmagic Design

At IBC, Blackmagic announced DeckLink HD Studio, its new capture card that offers both analog component and HDMI capture and playback. HDMI is an emerging digital standard...

Flatpanel Roundup

By Jeff Sauer

It's been a long time coming, but the battle for flatpanel supremacy may finally be afoot. After years of watching LCD encroach on plasma in terms of...

Dream Job: For Artists, By Artists

By Kristinha M. Anding

Michael Masucci feels an acute sense of responsibility to his fellow artists. It's this social consciousness that propelled the former New Yorker, high-end...

Mark In

Unless you've been spending your time under that proverbial rock, you can't have missed the groundswell making networking websites such as YouTube, Facebook,...