Rough Ride By Bill Miller
Their names are Tuffy, Turnbuckle, Double-D, and G-Rod. These aren't the bulls of the Professional Bull Riders (PBR) ...
Edit Review: iZotope RX Reviewer: Gary Eskow
During the post process, how often do you find problems with audio captured in the field? Frequently particularly if you're using the microphone that...
The Morris Microscope By Michael Goldman
In 1997, millimeter Senior Contributing Editor D. W. Leitner respectfully accused director Errol Morris of “transgressing the canons of documentary dogma” while writing about Morris’ then-new documentary Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control...
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...
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...
Beta Sight: Autodesk Discreet-friendly Storage System By Phil Wortas, Director of IT, Creative Group
Driven by increasing demand for HD production for ESPN, we at Creative Group recently upgraded our storage infrastructure to keep up...
Edit Expertise: Test Drive: HP xw4600 By Jan Ozer
The HP xw4600 workstation, configured with the new 3.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 (quad-core) processor, hits a real sweet spot for Adobe and Sony video editing applications. For other digital content-creation tasks, performance depended upon both application and project type, but we'll get to that in a moment...
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...
Workflow Evolution By Dan Daley
Tracy Bush, director of audio at game developer NCsoft in Austin, Texas, has a trick he uses to get game audio its due, bandwidth-wise, early in the developmental...