Mark In
Solid-state recording for camcorders long heralded and championed by Panasonic is going wide, with developments across the broadcast and IT landscapes...
By Cynthia Wisehart
The prize patrol is on the move, with continuing opportunities for aspiring content creators to get help and attention. In last month's millimeter...
Edit Review: Autodesk Combustion 2008 Review: Franklin McMahon
Autodesk Combustion is one of my favorite desktop compositing programs. In my experience, it's well built for realtime results, expertly using OpenGL to provide a fast and responsive creation environment...
Edit Review: Digital Anarchy ToonIt Reviewer: Franklin McMahon
When I initially heard about ToonIt — the software plug-in that simulates a cartoon feel similar to the effects seen in movies such as Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly — I couldn't help but feel slightly blasé...
Monstrous Task By Ellen Wolff
The poster for Paramount Pictures' Cloverfield depicts the Statue of Liberty standing headless, following a monster's attack on New York City...
Beta Sight: Avid DS Assist Station By Dermot Shane
My Theory is that the Best DI is not Always the One with the $250,000 machines in $1-million rooms (and $4,000-per-day rates)...
Fade To Black By Darroch Greer
Charles Ferguson is the director of the Oscar-nominated No End in Sight — the trenchant, definitive documentary on the run up to the war in Iraq and the mishandling of its aftermath by the Bush Administration...
Mark In
What if you could color control your video project to get just about any result you desire — even while pulling off specialized work such as tracking, which would allow you to replace parts of an image with something entirely different just like a Hollywood feature...
Edit Review: Autodesk 3ds Max 2008 Reviewer: Franklin McMahon
Autodesk continues to advance the 3D program 3ds Max, now 3ds Max 2008. This new version focuses less on amazing new features and much more on performance and workflow. If you've used Max, you know the power was already there to do just about anything...
Dream Job: Eco Media By Kristinha M. Anding
Environmentalism has been receiving a lot of media attention recently, but Maria Erades is in it for the long haul...