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NAB 2004: Editing 

By Bob Turner

At NAB, there is going to be a lot of talk about the “democratization” of film/video editing and postproduction. Software-only applications such as Apple FCP and Avid Xpress Pro, as well as Adobe Premiere Pro (and After Effects), Pinnacle Systems Liquid Edition, and Sony Vegas probably best represent this low-cost trend in post....

NAB 2004: Storage & Networking 

By Dan Ochiva

Great changes continue to course through storage and networking as plunging hardware costs combine with technology advances such as increased areal densities (the amount of data that can be packed onto a storage medium) to deliver storage that nears an astonishing $1,000 per terabyte....

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NAB 2003 

While a few thousands fewer turned up at April's annual National Association of Broadcasters convention, neither war nor virus held back a burst of new, innovative hardware and software. Crowds jammed press conferences and booth demos to hear about video acquisition gear employing 35mm-sized CCDs (Dalsa), Blu-ray optical disc recording (Sony), and Flash RAM-based recording systems (Panasonic).......

NAB’s Editing Highlights 

By Bob Turner

By now you have heard all the excitement generated by Avid's new Xpress Pro, Media Composer Adrenaline, and DS Nitris products. And the oohs and ahs of Final Cut Pro 4—especially when combined with one of the several......

NAB 2003: Where's the Beef? 

By Pete Putman, CTS

The 2003 NAB conference was quite a trip. With concerns about SARS and the military action in Iraq, attendance appeared to be down again from last year, but not significantly. Numbers in the range of 90,000 for attendance were heard from various parties......

A Sense of Siggraph 

Cynthia Wisehart, Editor

The film that will close this year's Electronic Theater at Siggraph is, for one thing, a 15-plus-minute movie. Even those who love and study animation...

NAB 2003 

Trevor Boyer, Michael Goldman, S. D. Katz, D. W. Leitner, Dan Ochiva, Jon Silberg, Bob Turner

With another NAB confab at hand, it's always tempting to try to sum up the state of the industry. Some think, there are plenty of reasons to be glum. The economy is still in a slump; many small and mid-size operations struggle to stay afloat. A trip to Las Vegas for the industry's annual schmooze-and-new-products fest might be downright depressing....

NAB for Everyone 

Cynthia Wisehart, Editorial Director

NAB. Apparently, You Gotta Go. In fact that's often how I feel when I'm on the show floor, power-walking from booth appointment to booth appointment....

NAB Shoot 

By Steve Mullen

THERE'S NO DOUBT THAT THREE YEARS OF RECESSION has taken its toll on the video industry — and those of us who cover it. Nevertheless, the camera manufacturers announced several exciting new products at their pre-NAB press conferences. Interestingly, two announcements were of new HD camcorders — one more than $115,000 and one less than $4,000....