Millimeter November/December 2008
By Michael Goldman
Director Ed Zwick says he gravitates toward period pieces (Glory, Legends of the Fall, and The Last Samurai, among others) simply because “historical moments are a particularly good place to find circumstances where the dramatic stakes are so high in compelling stories...
By Ellen Wolff
Software spawned by the needs of production studios is a venerable tradition in the animation and visual-effects industries...
By Michael Goldman
Director Darren Aronofsky's new film The Wrestler isn't so much a story about the title character as it is the wholesale documenting of a character who is, in fact, the entire story....
By Cynthia Wisehart
Last year, NAB invited users of millimeter's Reel-Exchange service (reel-exchange.com) to exhibit their work on the 35ft. screen in the Central Hall Content Theater, as well as at various locations throughout the show and convention via DVD and online at nab365.com...
By Ellen Wolff
Working in parallel was a 3D team that built high-resolution digital doubles that could be tracked onto selected shots as needed...
By Barry Braverman
The Panasonic AG-HPX170 is a potent filmmaking tool with many compelling features...
By Igor Ridanovic
Kappa Studios
Brand allegiances play a major role in postproduction decision making, but clients are also increasingly looking past the logos and choosing equipment that can perform quickly and on budget...
By Hugh Selway
Broadcast Operations Manager, EchoStar
EchoStar and its subsidiaries deliver direct broadcast satellite (DBS) television content and services to more than 13 million subscribers nationwide...
By Dan Ochiva
With potent, inexpensive software pushing 3D images far from the initial markets of feature film and national advertising, it's becoming more useful than ever to be able to capture 3D in the field...
By Dan Ochiva
The world of storage for postproduction is complex. One way manufacturers address the market is to offer more choices...
By Dan Ochiva
Like it or not, 3D is going beyond contending for the label of “next big thing.” It's here...
By Dan Ochiva
While it's only idle speculation to wonder what a small Arri video-camera might be like, you just have to check out a professional sales house to find the fabled Munich, Germany-based camera manufacturer's actual down-market foray...
By Dan Ochiva
During October's HD World Conference & Exposition in New York, a number of manufacturers sounded the drum for ever-larger storage arrays capable of meeting today's demands of media-sharing storage, content backup, streaming media, near-line storage, and postproduction needs...
By Dan Ochiva
With IDC estimating that laptops will overtake desktops as the most popular computer form factor worldwide by 2011 (they gained that ranking in the United States in 2006), maybe it's time to take another look at the latest in potent road warriors — even if they are far from svelte...
By Dan Ochiva
It was just a matter of time, but it looks like prices are finally dropping on the speediest, highest-capacity storage for 2K and even 4K post...
By Dan Ochiva
This may be the digital age in imaging, but don't tell that to Kodak's team of film scientists...
By Dan Ochiva
Your options to choose among companies providing shared storage continue to grow. Sheer throughput speed is one attraction...
By Dan Ochiva
Taking higher-capability visualization abilities with you is becoming easier with the latest generation of computer technology...
By Dan Ochiva
As CRT monitors start to burn out in post facilities around the country, their LCD replacements present a challenge for anyone concerned with stable color reproduction...
By Dan Ochiva
Better management of digital assets during postproduction is a proven way to control costs and protect for future use...
By Ellen Wolff
Fifteen years have passed since audiences became bewitched by the stop-motion classic Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas...
By Craig Erpelding
Originally from Ireland, Stephen Murphy began his career as a prosthetic makeup artist, designing and sculpting prosthetics and animatronics...
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Making History
Driving Force
Performance Enhancing
Step By Step: Quantum of Solace
Review: Panasonic AG-HPX170
Beta Sight: Avid and Red Digital Cinema
Beta Sight: Front Porch Digital DIVArchive and DIVAnet 
Products: Creaform VIUscan 3D color scanner
Products: Atto Technology Celerity FC-84EN
Products: Alioscopy USA 3DHD-40
Products: Arri MMB-1 matte box
Products: Aberdeen Stirling X881 storage array
Products: Dell M6400
Products: Rorke Data Galaxy Aurora IB
Products: Kodak 500T 5260 color negative film
Products: Archion Node 800
Products: NextComputing Vigor EvoHD
Products: Flanders Scientific SR-1 spectroradiometer
Products: Southpaw Technology Tactic
Fade to Black: Henry Selick, Director 
Q&A with Stephen Murphy, DP on Fifth Street