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Possibilities 

By Cynthia Wisehart

One of the best things about NAB is the unexpected: when you see something that nails a market need on the head, models the near future, or hints that...

Edit Review: Strata CX Suite 

Reviewer: Franklin McMahon

Strata has created a suite of tools with some very simple missions. One is to make it easy and accessible for producers without prior 3D experience to...

Mark In 

Is 3D difficult or impossible to teach and learn, as one past Siggraph panel had it? While the panel specifically addressed 3D animation, the growing use of 3D for animation and graphics in games, TV, the Web, and feature films points to the next frontier of computer-based skills....

NAB 2008 Update 

By Jan Ozer

Welcome to the pre-NAB roundup, where I'll relay what I know about the products that video-editing and related companies will demonstrate at the 2008...

Edit Review: Frontier Design Group AlphaTrack and PreSonus FaderPort  

Reviewer: Gary Eskow

The revolutionary aspect of the emergence, rise, and eventual domination of the digital audio work station is hard to exaggerate. From the days of Frank,...

Distribute Review: Telestream Episode Pro 4.4.1  

Reviewer: Franklin McMahon

Franklin McMahon reviews the Telestream Episode Pro 4.4.1, an update which offers encoding for numerous parameters and non-standard formats....

Audio Podcast: Cutting Iron Man in HD 

Editor Dan Lebental, A.C.E., recently chatted with millimeter about his recent work cutting the newest entry into the superhero feature-film sweepstakes—Marvel’s Iron Man...

Shoot Review: Sony PCM-D50  

Reviewer: Gary Eskow

Have you been hanging onto that old handheld stereo cassette player/recorder you used in the late 1980s to conduct interviews, just in case? If so, toss...

Edit Review: AJA Video Systems Io HD  

Reviewer: D. W. Leitner

Mention video I/O for the Mac, and chances are Kona card will enter the conversation even among production people who know little about Mac-based editing...

Edit Expertise: Storage Shootout 

By Dan Ochiva

Solid-state storage drives (SSD) are generating a lot of noise as the putative next big thing, but spinning-hard-drive storage isn't going away any time...