Millimeter December 2006
By Michael Goldman
Clint Eastwood's reputation for economical, straightforward filmmaking is a bit out of date at least in the opinion of Clint Eastwood. During a recent...
By Darroch Greer
This year, the UCLA Institute of the Environment focused its ninth annual report on the film and television industry (FTI), comparing it to five other...
By Ellen Wolff
When filmmakers bring their projects to Sundance this year, they needn't bring film at all. Like many modern festivals, Sundance uses digital projection....
By Cynthia Wisehart
Over a nearly 40-year history, leading filmmakers have been generous with us giving interviews that were directed at their peers and, as a result, took...
By Ellen Wolff
In E.B. White's classic book Charlotte's Web, one en- dearing scene shows Wilbur the pig receiving a buttermilk bath. For Paramount Pictures' live-action...
By Michael Goldman
The upcoming documentary Raptor Force, part of the PBS Nature series, features footage captured using miniature cameras mounted on large hawks as they...
By Craig Erpelding
For years, Comedy Central's South Park has been produced at Los Angeles-based South Park Studios. Today, the production team uses an Autodesk Maya-integrated...
By Michael Goldman
New York's Cineric recently created a new black-and- white film print of Stanley Kubrick's classic 1964 anti-war film, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned...
By Trevor Boyer
New frame rate, new name Panasonic recently announced that the AJ-HPX2000, a shoulder-mount P2 HD camcorder with 2/3in. CCDs, is getting 24p capabilities,...
By Dan Ochiva
Early in 2005, the computing press heralded the ad- vent of a new era of desktop processing as AMD and Intel delivered the first dual-core CPUs....
By Dan Ochiva
The latest advances in ASIC technology are taking the tedium out of encoding HD. Bluefish444, for example, uses Aspex's new Accelara HD MPEG-2 encoder PCI-X card in its Rage N|Code product to deliver faster-than-realtime HD (1920×1080i60) encoding....
By Trevor Boyer
The market has no lack of projectors that handle 1080p, but few are designed for the color-critical applications so important to post facilities. ...
By Dan Ochiva
Atto's ExpressSAS RAID adapter card delivers SAS and SATA II connectivity with up to 3Gbps-per-port performance for Macs and PCs. ...
By Trevor Boyer
It's worked for music tracks and episodes of Lost, so why not training videos? Halifax, Canada-based Dover Studios is now offering its recent series of Maya training DVDs as downloads. ...
By Dan Ochiva
Zandar Technologies' Predator HD12 and HD16 multiviewers provide up to 12 and 16 HD or SDI inputs, respectively, enabling multiple displays on a single projection screen or plasma-sized monitor. ...
By Dan Ochiva
If you ever find yourself needing a quick voiceover for a job, fumbling for the right microphone cable...
By Dan Ochiva
Location production is expensive, and the promise of using virtual sets offers hope to anyone dealing with today's budgets....
By Dan Ochiva
It's a fact of life: Although many bemoan the burden of built-in copy protection, the new HDMI HD monitor interconnect is in our future. ...
By S. D. Katz
If you are looking for a large workgroup solution for a cable station, news department, or other high- volume operation, Avid is the industry standard...
By Darroch Greer
A movie is something that is alive, completely alive, Pedro Almodovar says. You need to have control, because it's so much alive that it can be something...
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Clint Goes Digital
Exterior. Day. [Electric] Car Chase.
Perfect Projection
Step by Step: 
Bird Cam
Saving South Park
Dr. Strangelove Returns
Review: Avid Media Composer 2.5 
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