NAB 2006 By S. D. Katz, D. W. Leitner, Dan Ochiva, and Jan Ozer
Anyone who attended the annual National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention came away with one shared feeling: The industry is doing fine. Whether...
Unsung Contender By Barry Braverman
The advent of the Panasonic HVX200 has almost completely eclipsed the company's other HD camcorders, especially in the mid to sub-VariCam range. The AJ-HDX400...
First Person: Sony XDCAM HD Camcorder By Mark Falstad, director/cameraman
It sounded easy enough. Take three of Sony’s brand-new XDCAM HD PDW-F350 camcorders to Alaska to shoot a documentary on the 2006 Iditarod, The Last Great Race! First scene: four-time champion Martin Buser working his dogs one last time before the start. (Read about Falstad and other filmmakers and NAB-goers at NABlog) ...
Best of Show - DCP's Pick Hits for NAB 2006 The Editors
Soon after the NAB 2006 show in Las Vegas, the editors and writers of Digital Content Producer got together to select 16 winners of our Pick Hit awards (as well as a fun to have "Stocking Stuffer"...
Mark In
As computer technology has become more deeply a part of production and postproduction over the past few years, it's become apparent that major trends...
First-hand HDV By D.W. Leitner
Information Technology, a tempest borne of the times we live in, is tearing roofs off traditional production practices, rattling foundations of postproduction...
Shoot Review: Supacam DVX Reviewer: Tom Patrick McAuliffe
Take one part videocamera, one part digital still camera, add a MP3 player and a digital voice recorder, and what do you get?...
This past week in Las Vegas our writers and editors met up with camera manufacturer executives from Ikegami, Panasonic, and Sony. Listen in on their interviews for information on their new products and get a taste of what's to come in our NAB 2006 podcast series, sponsored by Adobe....
By Cody Holt
Lori McDaniel is not like a lot of activists who see corporate America as the bad guy. Quite the contrary, she believes that nonprofits and other advocacy...
Cutting the Cord By Michael Goldman
After years of waiting for wireless/RF-based HD camera systems to become practical for use as roving cameras in live broadcast situations, the sudden...