Digital Content Producer November 2008
Story by Bill Miller
Photos by David Egy
It's 9 o'clock in the morning on race day at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon. Twelve members of DirecTV's NASCAR HotPass production team are sardined...
By Cynthia Wisehart
One of the things we learned from building reel-exchange.com is that musicians can often create great video. Some of the Reel-Exchange members we've talked...
Reviewer: D. W. Leitner
Sony strikes again. No sooner had I reviewed the PMW-EX1 than the HVR-Z7U appeared. No sooner had I reviewed the Z7 than the PMW-EX3 appeared. I've just...
Reviewer: Jan Ozer
In stark contrast to earlier generations of AVCHD camcorders, by design and feature set, the AG-HMC150 is the first camcorder targeted squarely at the...
By Dan Ochiva
For the most part, when you're shooting documentary and news, you want to be as light and flexible as possible. Hauling a full-size tripod around, for...
By Dan Ochiva
Although some manufacturers are offering wider-angle lenses on stock camcorder systems, anyone wanting to shoot in more confined spaces realizes they...
By Dan Ochiva
Keep your eyes on fast-moving developments in the hardware industry as companies face an increasingly competitive world economy. Panasonic, for example,...
By Dan Ochiva
Elastic bands sometimes just plain rubber bands have been used for years to isolate microphones within their holders. While they're pretty good at holding...
By Dan Ochiva
Improvements to camera systems aren't always as conspicuous as a bigger lens or sleeker form factor. What's inside can change in even more important ways....
By Dan Ochiva
While partners Toshiba and Ikegami have shown various configurations of the latter's flash-based HD ENG gear, at October's HD World in New York, Ikegami...
By Franklin McMahon
One of the biggest postproduction trends over the past few years is round-tripping, by which you can bring your entire project along with associated video,...
Reviewer: Gary Eskow
If you bring analog sounds into your recording system and who doesn't? you'll need an audio interface that converts them to digital data and back into...
Reviewer: Franklin McMahon
Screencasting software has been fairly prevalent for the Mac. There are numerous freeware, shareware, and commercial options. Most of these allow you...
By Dan Ochiva
Inexpensive, consumer-oriented software is becoming more powerful by the day. Corel offers a compelling reason to consider an all-in-one video-editing...
By Dan Ochiva
When considering portable computing, potent laptops aren't the only alternative. NextComputing has been turning out a variety of laptops, small luggable...
By Dan Ochiva
With more of us wanting mobility, even when editing or doing other post work, manufacturers are following suit. HP's EliteBook 8730w mobile workstation...
By Dan Ochiva
Adobe's Creative Suite package, now in its fourth iteration, is picking up speed as it accumulates the benefits of a strategy that once sounded more like...
By Dan Ochiva
As the portable-workstation market gets more competitive, new twists help products stand out. While Lenovo's ThinkPad W700 notebook offers a 2.53GHz Intel...
By Dan Ochiva
As Sony Creative Software's Acid Pro matures, the software is straddling an interesting performance- and post-oriented approach, which is useful for those...
By Jay Ankeney
For this year's survey of the projection industry, I turned to experts from 12 companies that routinely communicate important announcements to the industry...
By Dan Ochiva
If videoconferencing or telepresence, as the higher-end providers like to call it ever truly takes off, economic conditions like those of today should...
By Dan Ochiva
KVM devices which allow multiple keyboards, mice, and monitors to be used with one or more computers offer improved efficiency. But many of the models...
By Dan Ochiva
If you're investing in pricey gear such as encoders, any product that can claim double duty deserves a closer look. RipCode says its Real-Time Stream...
By Dan Ochiva
Manufacturers have wanted to move from inefficient quartz-based projection systems for some time, but alternative lamp technologies such as LEDs didn't...
By Dan Ochiva
Demanding user environments can challenge any video-production server. That's why picking a well-regarded company with a long track record might save...
By Dan Ochiva
While improvements in LCD-manufacturing technology help to drop prices on big monitors, companies must find other ways to differentiate themselves in...
By Dan Ochiva
The rush is on to take web video to the next level. And not just by distributing Hollywood features and television shows, but by moving back up the production...
By Kristinha M. Anding
Jacob Soboroff believes we are not only living in a democracy, but also in a By far, many more people upload videos to YouTube and are on MySpace and...
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Shoot Review: Sony HVR-Z5U
Shoot Review: Panasonic AG-HMC150 
Shoot Tools: Joby
Shoot Tools: 16x9
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Shoot Tools: Thomson Grass Valley
Shoot Tools: Ikegami
Edit Expertise: Smooth Operator
Edit Review: M-Audio ProFire 610 and Studiophile BX8a Deluxe
Edit Review: Telestream ScreenFlow 1.1 
Edit Tools: Corel
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Distribute Expertise: Projection Roundtable 
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