Digital Content Producer January 2007
By Barry Braverman
In November 2006, I embarked on a once-in-a-lifetime journey to northern India to shoot second unit and behind-the-scenes for Wes Anderson's new movie, The Darjeeling Limited...
By Cynthia Wisehart
In this issue, our longtime Contributing Editor Barry Braverman reports from India, where he's multitasking with the XDCAM HD (see p. 52). The idea that...
By Jan Ozer
Most videographers know how to choose and use external microphones to maximize the audio quality of their shoots. Although there's some crossover in technologies...
Reviewer: Tom Patrick McAuliffe
Video cameras have gotten more versatile and a lot smarter, but sometimes manufacturers forget the little things. Couldn't your shooting be more comfortable...
Reviewer: Tom Patrick McAuliffe
What's the number-one thing that separates a professional video production and an amateurish one? Apart from basic image and sound quality, what is the...
Reviewer: S.D. Katz
When I started this review, Adobe had not yet purchased Serious Magic. The acquisition makes sense: Serious Magic is that rare company that has defined...
You can never have enough storage capacity, and that goes for both large facilities and small devices....
By Trevor Boyer
The new STA100 stereo adapter turns Zaxcom's TRX900/TRX900AA wireless transmitters and the ZFR100 solid-state audio recorder into 2-channel devices. ...
By Trevor Boyer
New from London-based PAG, the V4-iPC battery charger fits four Li-Ion V-Mount batteries from either Sony or PAG. ...
By Trevor Boyer
This fall, JVC added two new members to its ProHD family of HDV camcorders. ...
By Trevor Boyer
The whole point of using non-tape recording methods is saving time — no digitization and no rolling tape all the way through. ...
By Trevor Boyer
At NAB two years ago, Schneider created a lot of excitement among the extreme sports crowd with its Xtreme Fisheye. ...
By Gary Eskow
Unless you've been vacationing on Saturn for the last decade or so, you know that Digidesign Pro Tools has become the de facto digital audio workstation...
Reviewer: Gary Eskow
Of the many exciting advancements digital audio has given us in the last decade or so, convolution reverb is, in my book, near the top of the list. Convolution...
By Trevor Boyer
Bravo SE Blu Disc Publisher Primera Burning Blu-ray Discs is still strictly an early-adopter activity, but leave it to Primera to be first with an automated...
By Trevor Boyer
This standalone application allows editors to match royalty-free soundtracks to the mood and intensity (as well as length) of their video....
By Trevor Boyer
Many editors enjoy the simplicity of standalone hardware/software editing machines, and Macrosystem serves a great number of them, claiming 130,000 worldwide users for its Casablanca systems....
By Trevor Boyer
Vegas 7 was only introduced in September at IBC, but recent Sony camcorder activity has necessitated a free update....
By Trevor Boyer
Topaz Labs' Enhance offers 10 filters for tasks such as upconversion from SD to HD, de-interlacing, edge enhancement, noise filtering, removal of color bleeding, and artifact reduction....
By Trevor Boyer
Dubbed the “P2 Mobile,” the AJ-HPM100 is the first recorder/player in Panasonic's P2 line of solid-state recording gear. ...
By Trevor Boyer
DT-V24L1DU and DT-V20L1DU JVC For facilities that work in HD and require accurate color reproduction, JVC has introduced two new LCD monitors designed...
By Trevor Boyer
Designed for surveillance, For-A's new multiviewer could also provide an affordable way to monitor multicamera video shoots. The MV-400 displays up to four channels of camera video on its 1280×1024 screen. ...
By Trevor Boyer
That highly compressed web video you're creating will eventually make its way to some high-definition screens. If that thought gives you pause, you might want to start checking...
By Trevor Boyer
Introduced at CEDIA 2006, VizionWare's Hi-Wirez HDMI cables have active circuitry in both connectors. Claimed as unique among HDMI cables, the chips ensure that a cleaner...
By Trevor Boyer
At 57in., the new MultiSync LCD5710 is NEC's largest LCD screen. The monitor features a full 1920×1080 resolution. Featuring an integrated Digital Signage...
By Trevor Boyer
VBrick has introduced a capability in its WM Appliance that opens up new ways to transmit video across a corporate video infrastructure. The network video device's new...
By Kristinha M. Anding
Angelique Midthunder knows she's fortunate. The Sante Fe, N.M.-based documentarian has been able to concentrate her career on her passions: representing...
Challenged by the idea of doing HD production in a place that claims to be the largest domed indoor sports facility in the world? That's what Helifilms...
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Hands-on XDCAM HD 
Shoot Expertise: Sound Check 
Shoot Review: Anton Bauer Elipz 
Shoot Review: Sachtler Artemis DV Pro 
Shoot Review: Adobe DV Rack 2 
Edit Expertise: Audio Chops 
Edit Review: Audio Ease Altiverb 5 
American Spirits
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