Digital Content Producer January 2009
By Michael Goldman
Photos By Emanuel Coltellacci
Among the most basic tips Pascal Van Strydonck has for field audio professionals who might one day find themselves in strange places working on physically...
By Eric Melin
Even though the art form of live video-mixing performances has evolved by leaps and bounds over the past decade, most people in the United States probably...
By Cynthia Wisehart
Last year, NAB invited users of our Reel-Exchange service (reel-exchange.com) to exhibit their work on the 35ft. screen in the Central Hall Content Theater,...
By D. W. Leitner
Canon, unique among camcorder manufacturers with its roots in optics instead of electronics, has always followed a singular path. It introduced 24p HDV...
By Dan Ochiva
With the final touches on the next-gen USB 3.0 spec recently announced (it will offer about 4.8Gbps throughput, about 10X today's ubiquitous USB 2.0),...
By Dan Ochiva
While Red Digital Cinema has garnered a lot of interest in alternative camcorder design over the past couple of years, other small manufacturers are now...
By Dan Ochiva
It's still not an idea many DPs are comfortable with: Find a way to attach 35mm fixed-focal-length film lenses to a videocamera to deliver more of a modeled,...
By Dan Ochiva
It's a good thing that more choices in LED-type lighting gear are turning up, something both talent and you can appreciate. The talent will like LEDs'...
By Dan Ochiva
Panasonic's AG-HPX170 makes a good argument for becoming an all-around run-and-gun camcorder. Solid-state recording to P2 cards means no moving parts...
By Dan Ochiva
The latest low-power CMOS chips and solid-state storage offer flexibility to camera designers. Case in point: Sony's HXR-MC1. The compact point-of-view...
By Jan Ozer
With Creative Suite 4 (CS4), Adobe improved both the workflow and the Blu-ray- and Flash-related authoring capabilities of Encore. Within the context...
Reviewer: Franklin McMahon
Adobe continues to improve its flagship workflow program for digital photography. Photoshop Lightroom 2 is designed to make it easy to sort, manipulate, and store thousands of images...
Reviewer: Franklin McMahon
A lot of professional video applications promise realtime results, and Kinemac 1.0 for Mac OS X is one of the few that delivers. From a company that's...
By Dan Ochiva
To appreciate full 1080 HD, you need as large a monitor as you can manage, but not too large as to overwhelm an edit suite. Panoramadtv the video products...
By Dan Ochiva
While working with distorted video or effects such as shadows are all in a day's work for an effects artist, most of the rest of us need help. Red Giant...
By Dan Ochiva
While some think the NLE universe only goes as far as the three A's of Adobe, Apple, and Avid, there's one long-running app that quietly keeps attracting...
By Dan Ochiva
Plug-in packages gain usefulness only if they work well with the apps you might use in the first place. Noise Industries' FxFactory product line includes...
By Dan Ochiva
Anyone who has loaded lots of files from CDs or DVDs knows optical drives aren't the speediest devices. So when you have a chance to upgrade a drive at...
By Dan Ochiva
While it's not necessary to have the latest and greatest in storage technology, it helps to keep on eye on trends. If at some point you have the money...
By Jan Ozer
If you produce your streaming-media files on a PC, you have multiple sub-$1,000 encoding options including Adobe Media Encoder (AME), Microsoft's Expression...
By Dan Ochiva
Did you ever worry about installing a monitor in an area that had moisture or even sprays of water? If you're designing a show about the rainforest or...
By Dan Ochiva
Ultrathin LCD and plasma monitors make sense for space-saving and aesthetic reasons, so why ruin it with a clunky mount? That's what Chief Manufacturing...
By Dan Ochiva
New signal-distribution technologies offer benefits, but if you're faced with an installed network that works, it might be difficult to find money to...
By Dan Ochiva
Color values and images on monitors spec'd for outdoors or even brightly lit indoor spaces such as arenas can suffer, losing intensity that can devalue...
By Dan Ochiva
Touchscreens look like they might be one of 2009's breakout display technologies; CNN's use of a large touchscreen Magic Wall for analyzing last year's...
By Dan Ochiva
Projection screens don't garner kudos as cutting-edge technology, but there are still potential improvements. Elite Screens developed its StarBright ultrahigh...
By Dan Ochiva
It's no secret: In February, the United States changes to a full DTV broadcast envionment. Turns out it's a good time to look at production systems that...
By Kristinha M. Anding
Video technology has changed dramatically since the Educational Video Center (EVC) was founded in the mid-1980s, but the mission of the New York nonprofit...
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Racing for Sound
New Wave
Shoot Expertise: First Look: Canon Vixia HF S10 
Shoot Tools: Point Grey Research FirePro LDR
Shoot Tools: Ikonoskop A-cam dII
Shoot Tools: P+S Technik Pro35 
Shoot Tools: Switronix TorchLED TL-50
Shoot Tools: Zacuto rigging kits for Panasonic AG-HPX170
Shoot Tools: Sony HXR-MC1
Edit Expertise: Dynamic Disc 
Edit Review: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 
Edit Review: Kinemac 1.0
Edit Tools: Wohler HDMon-260
Edit Tools: Red Giant Software Warp 1.0
Edit Tools: Media 100 version 13
Edit Tools: Noise Industries FxFactory Pro 2.0.5
Edit Tools: Other World Computing SuperDrive upgrades
Edit Tools: Atto Technology ExpressSAS H680
Distribute Expertise: Encoder Shootout 
Distribute Tools: Pantel waterproof displays
Distribute Tools: Chief Manufacturing LTTU
Distribute Tools: Altinex DR446-103
Distribute Tools: Samsung high-brightness LCD
Distribute Tools: Elite Screens StarBright
Distance Editing
Dream Job: Social Studies