Q&A with Cinematographer Dan Parsons 

By Craig Erpelding

Cinematographer Dan Parsons recently shot five shorts for the Global Short Film Network (GSFN): If God Had Wanted Us to Fly He Would Have Given Us Wings,...

Better Production Ideas 

By Dan Ochiva

It's that time of the year again when companies begin flooding the airwaves with items designed to draw out your credit card for holiday spending. While...

Business Intelligence: The Real Cost of Physical Media Distribution 

By Tony LaPolito, Vice President of Marketing, Signiant

At media and entertainment businesses, I often find myself walking through hallways and squeezing past boxes of blank video tapes. And when I do this,...

The Distribution Beat 

By Eric Melin

The Internet Movie Database (imdb.com) has a goal: to one day offer its users every movie and TV show in the database in its entirety. In addition to...

SMPTE Steps In 

By Cynthia Wisehart

Cynthia Wisehart on SMPTE’s move to standardize the mastering and packaging formats for content distributed over broadband networks....

Skillset 

Avid Advanced Editing Tips & Techniques Nov. 10-12 and Nov. 17-19 Hollywood, $1,195 edu.moviola.com Designed for experienced Avid Media Composer, Xpress...

Dream Job: Capturing Change 

By Cynthia Wisehart

Luke Eberl rolled his Panasonic AG-DVX100 as Denver police shot pepper-spray bullets into a crowd of street protestors calling themselves Recreate '68....

Filmic Animation  

By Ellen Wolff

One of the most iconic movie images of 2008 shows a rusty robot dwarfed by mountains of trash receding into distant haze. The image captures the plight...

Clint's Collaborators  

By Michael Goldman

The remarkably efficient Clint Eastwood filmmaking machine keeps marching along with, at press time, three feature films in various states of progress....

Review: Panasonic AJ-HPX2700  

By Barry Braverman

Few professional broadcast cameras have achieved the vaulted status and battle-hardened reputation of the original Panasonic Varicam. Introduced at NAB...