24/7 Workflow

By Michael Goldman

With two episodes and pickups for a third being shot on two different stages and three episodes being edited simultaneously for Fox's hit drama 24, production...

Exclusive: The Muren Factor

By Michael Goldman

When legendary visual effects pioneer and eight-time Academy Award winner Dennis Muren received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Visual Effects Society...

VFX Vision

By Ellen Wolff

Ray Feeney remembers the day in the mid-1970s when one of the first computer- guided special effects shoots was done. Fresh from the California Institute...

Editor's Notes

By Cynthia Wisehart

Between last year's NAB and now, Intel has gone through one of its most productive periods in history, delivering the new Core 2 Duo chip and the new...

Step by Step: 300

By Ellen Wolff

When Director Zack Snyder took on Warner Bros.' movie version of the graphic novel 300, he used wall-to-wall visual effects to create the film equivalent...

NAB 2007

It's that time of year again time to check out new gear. The NAB show will draw 100,000 attendees to Las Vegas from April 14 to 19, and from cameramen...

Beta Sight: Avid Media Composer 2.6.3

By Sean Albertson
Fat Free Film

While working on a short-lived 2005 TV series called E-Ring, I invested in an Avid Xpress Pro system to have on my laptop. My plan was to carry a 250GB...

Fade to Black: Zhang Yimou, Director

By Darroch Greer

Zhang Yimou is the greatest name in Chinese cinema. He is best known for his moving parables of Chinese life starring the radiant Gong Li Red Sorghum,...