Millimeter April 2009
By Michael Goldman
When J.J. Abrams was handed the keys to the Star Trek kingdom, he boldly went where no Star Trek filmmaker had gone before: into prequel land...
By Michael Goldman
By the time Jeffrey Katzenberg announced last year that DreamWorks Animation would forevermore author all of its computer-animated feature films in a native 3D format (dubbed InTru 3D and developed in partnership with Intel), Monsters vs. Aliens was well into development as a 2D project...
By Cynthia Wisehart
This is the relaunch issue of the millimeter community, which includes the readers of millimeter, Digital Content Producer, our websites, and our enewsletters...
By Ellen Wolff
Phantasmagorical effects abound in Warner Bros.’ Watchmen, which isn’t surprising given its origin as a graphic novel about superheroes. But alongside the film’s otherworldly visual effects...
By D.W. Leitner
I recently had a production
meeting with a young cameraman who owns a Sony PMW-EX3. In the course of getting to know one other, he asked me what it was like to shoot film, which he said he’d very much like to do one day...
By Franklin McMahon
The last several years have seen dramatic shifts in how we view video on the Web and how we produce web video...
By Barry Braverman
This is not a $30,000 camera. You might want to repeat that to yourself as you consider Panasonic's latest P2 offering. At a street price of less than $10,000, the AG-HPX300 camcorder...
By Jan Ozer
Sporting a completely redesigned case and Intel’s new Nehalem processor, the HP Z800 knocks the socks off HP’s existing workstation line...
By Stephen K. Mann
Maya 2009 marks the 10th release of Maya and the third release from Autodesk. This new version promised a lot...
By Dan Ochiva
While some hail solid-state storage as the best thing to happen to field recording, there are still plenty of good reasons to use the compact, portable drive technology that's come out over the past few years...
By Dan Ochiva
Speed and simplicity are two ideals when you're dealing with backup of camcorders and cameras in the field. The Nexto Extreme ND-2700, from Korean company NextoDI, offers just that...
By Dan Ochiva
It's not common to take a NAS device on location, but if you do need one, best make it small like the Buffalo Technology LinkStation Mini...
By Dan Ochiva
Sure, there are a lot of portable hard drives out there, but not too many portable media servers. That's how Iogear touts its Portable Media Server Player GMD2025U120...
By Dan Ochiva
While it's probably not something you'll do a lot of, showing your footage or completed work on the road can be a handy capability. Sturdy portable storage is key to that...
By Dan Ochiva
Modular architectures for computers have been around for a while, most commonly turning up in corporate installations where large amounts of specifically tweaked gear might be needed at once...
By Dan Ochiva
If film is to remain viable, moving images from film negative to digital data needs to keep up with the latest technology. In comments prior to NAB Show 2009, Cintel says that it is doing just that...
By Dan Ochiva
Smaller companies enjoy shows such as NAB because the foot traffic and press coverage make it ideal for new product introductions...
By Dan Ochiva
Until recently, using a standard laptop to capture HD resolutions wasn't feasible. Now, new generations of capture cards such as the
HD-SDI Express from Imperx...
By Dan Ochiva
ver-shrinking electronics are making computers into true appliances. Microprocessor-design firm Marvell's SheevaPlug is about the size of a typical wall power converter, yet it is a full Linux-powered PC...
By Dan Ochiva
RAID arrays are turning up everywhere, so it's not strange to see a trend toward more stylish housings that will allow the devices to fit well in an edit suite or recording studio...
By Dan Ochiva
You have to hand it to Quantel: Whether the economy is good or bad, for the past 30 years, the company has kept its position as one of the players at the top of high-end postproduction...
By Dan Ochiva
If you work with live or on-demand streaming, you know that processing gear has its own set of requirements...
By Dan Ochiva
The market for plug-in visual-effects software is a tough one with tight margins. Users don't want to pay all that much for an added effect or two, yet companies are expected to do enough R&D to constantly introduce new versions...
By Dan Ochiva
While it's common to think of a facility standardizing on one or another NLE or compositing programs, visual-effects plug-in decisions are often left up to the discretion of editors...
By Dan Ochiva
OK, maybe this isn't the greatest invention you will see this month, but if you've ever lost patience with HDMI cables slipping out after you've adjusted a monitor or workstation, you just might want one of these...
By Dan Ochiva
Adobe After Effects
remains the most widely used compositing program on both Mac and PC platforms, so new software designed to work with it finds an eager market of users looking for new capabilities...
By Dan Ochiva
Is your current computer your last desktop? You might think so if you’ve been reading the pundits lately. The world seems to be thinking small...
By Michael Goldman
If there is one thing cinematographer Roberto Schaefer has learned during his journey into the world of digital acquisition, it’s that there is not, and probably never will be, a uniform digital workflow...
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Back on Trek
It Came from the Third Dimension
Step by Step: Watchmen
Sign of the Times
Beyond Web Video
Review: Panasonic AG-HPX300
Review: HP Z800
Review: Autodesk Maya 2009
Focus Enhancements FS-5
NextoDI Nexto Extreme ND-2700
Buffalo Technology LinkStation Mini
Iogear Portable Media Server Player GMD2025U120
LaCie LaCinema Rugged
NextComputing NextServer Evo
Cintel diTTo evolution and imageMill2
Red Giant Software ToonIt 2 and Key Correct Pro 1.1
Imperx HD-SDI Express
Marvell SheevaPlug
Sonnet Technologies Fusion F3
VDS Synapse Neurons
ViewCast Osprey 700e HD
Digieffects Natural Forces
Boris FX Boris Continuum Complete 6
PPC Locking HDMI Cable
Imagineer Systems mocha for After Effects 2
The Disappearing Desktop
Fade to Black: Roberto Schaefer, ASC