Millimeter May/June 2007
By Michael Goldman
The principal architects for three prominent summer CG animated movies— Ratatouille, Shrek the Third, and Surf's Up—talk with millimeter about the process of designing, building, and executing complicated color palettes for such movies...
By Michael Goldman
Spider-Man 3 was, of course, a huge digital effects project. Significantly, it was also Technicolor Digital Intermediates (TDI)'s first 4K DI project, executed at its new facility on the Sony lot in Culver City, Calif....
By Blair Jackson
Along with the rise in video game production budgets the last several years has come an increasing sonic sophistication throughout the medium from sound...
By Cynthia Wisehart
One of my favorite things I heard at NAB was the comment that Apple had, with the announcement of ProRes 422, legitimized compression. The implication...
By Ellen Wolff
Diseny's Pirates of the Caribbean franchise has been rightfully praised for dazzling character animation, but its CG cast isn't the only advanced animation...
By D. W. Leitner and Dan Ochiva
In my millimeter coverage of last year's NAB 2006, Cameras and Other Driving Forces, I divided the massive show into four vectors of interest: cameras,...
At NAB 2007, new digital cinema cameras ruled the show floor. Like everything else in the digital world, these high-res...
By Dennis Ho, President and Founder, Digital Jungle
Digital Jungle Post Production is nearing its 16th anniversary, and in celebration, we've revolutionized our facility, adding a brand-new digital intermediate...
By Dan Ochiva
Introduced at last year's NAB, Splice addressed the lack of realtime interactivity for the Da Vinci Systems 2K/2K Plus color correction systems....
By Dan Ochiva
I/O just keeps getting more interesting. Now, MOTU announces a powerful HD/SD video production suite based around its new interface hardware, the V3HD...
By Dan Ochiva
Until recently, Celco film recorders have ran on sturdy but pricey Irix-based SGI gear. While Linux has already found a place in high-end post, the increasingly popular open-source software will now be used in all new Celco...
By Dan Ochiva
HD-SDI channels are a high-speed link for moving HD images. But the SMPTE 292M spec wasn't designed to carry auxiliary program production data or machine control information, because such embedded metadata could get corrupted...
By Dan Ochiva
Since its acquisition of Alias in 2006, Autodesk has been steadily boosting the acquired products, including the Lustre color-grading platform...
By Dan Ochiva
No doubt PCs play a key part in video production. To help video post keep up with constant changes in CPU speeds and storage throughput capabilities, Dayang designed its new-generation Redbridge series of video and audio cards...
By Dan Ochiva
Over the past few years, proliferating SD and HD video and audio formats added time and effort when it came time for post. Readying material for the Internet — and now cell phones — adds to the chores...
By Dan Ochiva
Face it. With digital rights management turning up everywhere, you'll have to deal with copy-protected HD content at some point when you need to physically transport any final distribution material...
By Dan Ochiva
With ever-larger image files used in post during editing and compositing, speeding up the move of data in and out of disk arrays becomes crucial. That's one reason Archion touts its Synergy HD4 storage system...
By Darroch Greer
"I don't do any storyboard--never," Olivier Dahan says, rather defiantly. I don't work with the script on the shoot or in my hotel room. I don't plan everything....
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True Colors 
New DI Pipeline
Sonic Sophistication
Step by Step: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
NAB 2007
NAB 2007 Pick Hit Awards 
Beta Sight: Quantel Pablo 
Products: Da Vinci Systems 
Products: MOTU
Products: Celco
Products: Eyeheight
Products: Autodesk
Products: Dayang
Products: Rhozet
Products: Maxell
Products: Archion
Fade to Black: Olivier Dahan, Director